Lead Software Test Engineer

Mettler-Toledo International Inc.; Columbia (MD); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Software Test Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring software quality. This position offers a unique opportunity to work closely with developers and project managers, guiding the testing process and implementing best practices. You will lead a hybrid team, balancing remote work with in-office collaboration, while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical coverage, tuition reimbursement, and more. If you're passionate about quality assurance and want to make a significant impact in the software development lifecycle, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Care

401(k) Savings Plan with Company Matching

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Flexible Spending

Short- and Long-Term Disability

Employee Assistance Program

Parental and Caregiver Leave Programs

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in software testing and development.
• Experience in technical project team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute software test cases for quality assurance.
• Collaborate with project leads to develop test plans.

Skills

Agile/Scrum Methodology

Defect Tracking Tools (Jira/Azure DevOps)

Regression Testing

Exploratory Testing

Smoke Testing

End-to-End System Testing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Our Opening and Your Responsibilities

Mettler-Toledo AutoChem is seeking a Lead Software Test Engineer for its Columbia, MD location. This position is responsible for working with software developers, offshore test resources, software project leads, project managers, and product managers to ensure that the software products are properly and fully tested according to current best practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate as an active member of the software development team to deliver quality software products according to defined processes and best practices. Best practices for software development life cycle include test strategy and test automation strategy.
• Provide guidance, coaching, mentoring, and leadership to help implement a harmonized software testing process across all AutoChem.
• Develop and/or execute software test cases in a timely manner for our software products.
• Perform ad-hoc software testing based on product knowledge, testing needs and benefits.
• Conduct various types of testing (i.e., smoke testing, regression testing, performance testing) and record results.
• Report bugs generated by testing activities in a manner consistent with current practices to ensure proper content and format and to eliminate duplication.
• Assist in the re-production of reported software problems.
• Provide information on bug reports to assist in their resolution by the development team.
• Provide recommendations for changes to existing test cases to improve breadth and depth of testing and update test cases to provide future testing coverage of customer reported problems.
• Recommend, implement and support quality improvements and changes to testing processes, procedures, tools, and work products to correct deficiencies and noncompliance and improve efficiency.
• Develop software product test summary reports including appropriate metrics.
• Review and evaluate that user requirements and/or software requirements are testable and verifiable and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Collaborate with software project leads to develop test plans for AutoChem software products, determine testing resource requirements, and coordinate formal software product testing for these products.
• Direct the efforts of the offshore test team and other identified test resources located at various sites in the development and execution of software test cases.
• Provide consulting to testing resources to assist in proper test setup and execution.
• Perform initial triage of bug reports to ensure proper content, format, and eliminate duplication when necessary.
• Review test case execution documents for proper content and ensure proper storage.
• Review recommended changes to test cases with the development team.

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelor’s degree in any field, plus 2 years of related experience. Foreign equivalent degrees are acceptable. Required experience must include 2 years in the following specific areas:

• Working with software developers, product owners, and requirements engineers in agile/scrum software development methodology;
• Definition and analysis of acceptance criteria and requirements of software products;
• At least one defect tracking and continuous integration tool, such as Jira/Azure DevOps/Team Foundation Server;
• Testing of software used in medical, pharmaceutical, or chemical industries;
• Regression testing, exploratory testing, smoke testing, end-to-end system testing;
• Developing test cases and test plans; and
• Testing software which adheres to regulatory compliance.

Required experience must also include one (1) year of experience in technical project team leadership with the responsibility to report status and issues and provide guidance to software testers in testing related activities.

This position is hybrid. The individual can work from home 2 days/week and is required to be in the office three days/week.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We give consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification. You can find more details in our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy, available upon request.

Our Offer to You

• Medical, dental and vision care coverage and a 401(k) savings plan with company matching – all starting on date of hire
• Tuition reimbursement,perks, and discounts
• Parental and caregiver leave programs
• All the usual benefits such as paid time off, flexible spending, short-and long-term disability, basic life insurance, business travel insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and domestic partner benefits
• Global market strength and worldwide leadership in precision instrumentation
• A brand name that is identified worldwide with precision, quality, and innovation
• Thousands of patents, design and innovation awards across Mettler Toledo
• Global recognition for the quality of our products and services

About Mettler Toledo

Working at METTLER TOLEDO AutoChem Inc. (www.mt.com/autochem) means you are impacting the world in important ways. Our process analytical technology and automated synthesis reactors provide scientists in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries the information they need to deliver life-changing products. As a strategic business unit within Mettler Toledo, AutoChem develops, manufactures, sells, and services instruments that modernize chemical synthesis, provide insight to every chemical reaction, and provide process knowledge to eliminate scale-up and safety incidents.

• Our instruments increase the efficiency and effectiveness of chemists and engineers.
• Our products help develop profitable, green, and safe scientific processes.
• We help keep you healthy. Our instruments make it possible for scientists to develop new drugs and bring life-saving medicines to the world.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We give consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here.

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