QA Automation Engineer at Arbital Health
San Francisco, CA
$140,000–$160,000
Aug 18, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A QA Automation Engineer role at a healthcare technology startup building a SaaS platform for value-based care contract management. The position centers on designing and maintaining scalable automated test frameworks covering API and end-to-end UI testing, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted tooling. The ideal candidate has hands-on automation coding experience and comfort validating AI-driven product features in a fast-moving startup environment.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 4,550–16,200
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What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
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No work location or metro is specified in the posting; the role appears to be remote or location-flexible based on the absence of any office requirement.
The experience range is stated as '2-7 years,' which spans Junior through Senior. The scope (owning the QA automation lifecycle, architecting frameworks, driving automation strategy) leans toward the upper-mid range, but the lower bound and startup context keep this classified as Mid.
The 'Tools we use' section lists the full company stack (Python, R, SQL, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, FastAPI, AWS, Databricks, PostgreSQL, Airflow, Playwright, Datadog, GitHub Actions, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Claude, Cursor, Gemini). These are stack-context items, not hard gates, and are marked as preferred accordingly.
JavaScript/TypeScript and Python appear in the requirements section as interchangeable language options ('JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar'); a single skill entry is used with alternatives to reflect this.
Prior healthcare experience and startup experience are explicitly called out as 'a plus' and are omitted from the skills list as they name no concrete technology.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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