Software QA Engineer

Role Purpose

• Create, update, maintain and execute automated test suites for various Web Applications and back-end Data Warehousing solutions
• Integrate test framework with CI/CD systems
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and technologies
• Work as a member of the scrum team including planning, estimating, and verifying user stories and acceptance criteria
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers)
• Become a user expert on how our products work, gaining an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses; and championing customer issues in order to ensure they have a positive experience.
• Help determining the testability of a product or design

Minimum Qualifications

• Computer Science and/or Science-based Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of experience qualifying high-volume, scalable software solutions.

Desired Skills

• Knowledge on High Content Screening and/or Surface Plasmon Resonance technologies
• Excellent understanding of Quality Assurance life cycle, methodologies and best practices
• Excellent knowledge in test case management and bug tracking systems such as Jira & Zephyr
• Experience in test documentation, defect analysis, test case writing, tracking and reporting
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment
• Experience coding in Java, JavaScript, Python, .Net or other object-oriented programming languages such as C#.
• Experience with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber
• Experience in transforming manual test cases into automated test cases
• Experience in BDD test cases

Special Skills & Knowledge

• Experience in Life Sciences or Healthcare is a plus
• Good English, written and verbal

Other Key Competencies

• Passion for quality, creating new solutions and change
• Strong emphasis on learning quickly and staying current with new technologies
• Self-motivated, independent thinker with excellent troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work within a multi-site, multicultural team