Director of Quality Assurance Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.</span></p></div><div>We're seeking a <strong>Director of Quality Engineering </strong>to lead and reshape how our engineering team approaches testing in the AI era!</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Director of Quality Engineering owns the quality function across the full software development lifecycle — from strategy and organizational design to the technical standards that govern how software ships. This is a strategic leadership role for someone who is leading the rethinking of what quality means in an era where AI generates the majority of code, and who can build the systems, culture, and team to match.</span></div> <div> <p><strong>Our Culture @ Machinify</strong></p> <p>We embrace complex challenges with curiosity, having genuine interest and drive to understand the hard problems at hand and how to move the needle forward. Our engineers empower each other to take action, learn deeply about our customers' needs and unlock innovation with a strong sense of product ownership. We build with our users in mind, thoughtfully shipping outcomes, not just features. The technology we build shapes real healthcare decisions, demanding a high bar for engineering excellence and what we ship carries real weight. We pressure-test new AI tools, shape how they're used, and set the example for what disciplined, AI-driven engineering looks like...fast, but always under structured human oversight.</p> </div> <div> <div><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Ideal candidate is...</span></strong></div> <div> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A leader who has a pulse on industry AI best practices and is already transforming quality for the AI-accelerated development era.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Someone who relishes impact through roles no longer defined by traditional QA boundaries: you operate at the intersection of platform, engineering, MLE, and product.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A quality advocate who can hold the bar on rigor without becoming the bottleneck on velocity.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A data-driven leader who develops meaningful metrics and uses them to drive decisions — not just report status.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="TextRun SCXW163674355 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW163674355 BCX0">Does this sound like the right opportunity to explore?...&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW163674355 BCX0">Lets</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW163674355 BCX0">&nbsp;connect!</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW163674355 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> </div> </div> <h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></h3> <div> <h4><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strategy &amp; Leadership</span></h4> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rethink the QA team methodologies and skillsets/training in a world where AI generates the majority of code — evaluation methodologies, coverage metrics that account for AI-generated tests, and scaling to validation of multiplying volumes of code and use cases, without proportional headcount growth.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing team of Quality Engineers; own hiring targets, career ladders, and a high impact, innovative culture; Grow leadership muscle in your team.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Represent quality to executive leadership and regulators with meaningful metrics and auditable evidence; be the organizational quality gate.</span></li> </ul> <h4><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Technical Quality Strategy</span></h4> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Own an AI-driven technical quality architecture: test data strategy in PHI-constrained environments, CI/CD-integrated gate design, and the automation framework philosophy across unit, integration, and end-to-end surfaces.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Establish release quality standards and exit criteria that balance engineering velocity with production confidence; Define defect triage and escalation protocols used across teams.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Partner with platform and MLE to integrate AI/LLM evaluation methodology into the delivery pipeline.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Deep familiarity with the test automation landscape across languages and stacks</span></li> </ul> </div> <h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>What You Bring</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">10+ years of software quality engineering experience, with 4+ years in a leadership role and 2+ years driving strategy and execution in an AI-accelerated development environment.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Track record of building or transforming a quality function at scale — org and role design, not just team management.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience evaluating AI-generated tests for correctness of intent and coverage fidelity — able to distinguish tests that pass from tests that actually verify the right behavior.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience showing measurable impact with mutation testing, risk-based testing, and production observability as a continuous quality gate.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA or equivalent) strongly preferred.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Excitement to make an impact in rewiring US healthcare!</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>What We Offer</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings</span></div> </li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">FSA/HSA</span></div> </li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tuition reimbursement</span></div> </li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match</span></div> </li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Unlimited PTO</span></div> </li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Additional health and wellness benefits and perks</span></div> </li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work</span></li> </ul> <div> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span data-contrast="none">The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications,&nbsp;etc. &nbsp;We are hiring for&nbsp;different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range.&nbsp;</span><span data-contrast="none">Salary is one&nbsp;component&nbsp;of the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and&nbsp;perks.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-contrast="none">Pay range: 225,000-250,000 ~</span></p> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div><div class="content-conclusion"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify</strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. 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