Senior Test Engineer, Research & Admin

Rune Labs
Rune Labs is a software and data analytics company for precision neurology, supporting care delivery and therapy development, advancing data-driven therapies for diseases such as Parkinson's, MS, OCD, and other neurological conditions . Rune aims to fill the gap in software and data support for next-generation neuroscience therapeutics, and expand the benefits of precision medicine to the millions of patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. We're revenue-generating and well-funded by top-tier investors .
Rune's first-in-class precision brain data software platform integrates electrophysiology, brain imaging, and device data together with wearable data and clinical labels. The combination provides researchers, drug developers, and clinicians with the tools to guide treatment, uncover hidden disease phenotypes, and design better-targeted therapies.
StrivePD is our care delivery ecosystem for Parkinson's disease , enabling patients and clinicians to better manage Parkinson's by providing access to curated dashboards summarizing a range of patient data sources, and by connecting patients to clinical trials. For therapeutics development, biopharma and medical device companies leverage Rune's technology, network of engaged clinicians and patients, and large longitudinal real-world datasets to expedite development programs.
The Role
We're looking for a technical leader who is passionate about quality and cares deeply about building robust automation tools and best practices that enable scale. This role will focus on our back-end APIs and data layer services, building a test strategy and an automation framework to test a high throughput, high volume data & ML pipeline. As one of the first test engineers on the team, this is a unique opportunity to shape our test strategy, implement it, and make a direct contribution to our mission to make brain data available at scale and build a precision neurology platform.
This role reports into Carolyn Ranti (Engineering Manager).
Compensation Range
United States: $155-172,000 USD + benefits and equity
Canada: $150-170,000 CAD + benefits and equity
Core Responsibilities

1. Test Strategy - Define, maintain, and execute an overall test strategy for the back-end services and data pipeline, ensuring product quality and high test coverage across the back-end and data layers
2. Test Plans - Write plans and test cases to test individual services, features, and products, to ensure requirements coverage and address historic or emergent issues from the field, working closely with software engineers, product management, and customer success
3. Test Execution - write and execute tests, with heavy bias towards automation and integrating all tests into our CI/CD pipeline
4. Product Quality & Compliance - Track quality, including test coverage, failure trends, incidents and resolution, performance baselines, documentation, and regulatory traceability matrices
5. Test Evangelist - Maintain and champion awareness of industry trends in quality, specifically testing automation, processes, and techniques. Our engineers are responsible for writing tests, but that doesn't mean they can't benefit from your wisdom and perspective at all stages of our development cycle.

Minimum Requirements

• +4 years experience as a full-time Test Engineer role in a software company.
• Back-end automation testing experience; no specific technology required, but opinions and experience with some is required.

Important Skills and Qualifications

• Fluent verbal and written technical communication skills.
• Can work within an iterative environment with short cycles. We release on-demand (daily) and need to be able to test in cycle with development.
• High attention to detail and a pride in defining your own high standards of quality; our standards should be higher than the minimum any regulatory program requires.
• Form productive relationships with engineers, designers and product managers to make both your jobs easier and more rewarding; we're a pretty warm and friendly bunch

Practical Stuff

• You must reside and be authorized to work in either the U.S. or Canada.
• We are a fully remote team within the US and Canada. We ask everyone to be available in general for collective team meeting hours from 10-3 Pacific (1-6 Eastern) daily. If you're in San Francisco, our pet-friendly office is just a block from Golden Gate Park.
• Full health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents. Check out our benefits details here .

More About Us
We look for strong alignment with Rune's values: learn about our work culture and expectations at Rune on our website . We are committed to treating each other well, building a diverse and representative team, and continually working to improve the cooperation and inclusivity of our org. Anyone meeting the minimum requirements for an open role is strongly encouraged to apply.