Lead Test Automation Engineer – Life Sciences & AI Platforms

Bio-Techne; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Pet insurance

ID shield

401k plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Dependent Care FSA

Tuition reimbursement

Mentorship programs

Internship programs

Volunteer time off

Employee events

Paid holidays and paid time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Bio-Techne is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable automated tests for instrument software, data pipelines, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled applications in the Life Sciences field.

The role collaborates with software engineers, scientists, product owners, and SQA to ensure tests are comprehensive, traceable, and compliant with Quality System requirements. It contributes to automation architecture and test-data design throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• The candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline and at least six years of software test automation experience; an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience is acceptable.
• Preferred experience in the life sciences.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for desktop, web, API, instrument-control, data-pipeline, and analytics applications.
• Define and contribute to test automation architecture, frameworks, coding standards, and reusable components.
• Integrate automated tests into source-control and CI workflows using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, or equivalent technologies.
• Develop automated tests using Python, TestComplete, shell scripting, SQL, and other approved technologies.
• Create and maintain test data, test environments, mocks, simulators, and utilities needed to validate software workflows and error handling.
• Review software requirements, specifications, and designs for clarity, completeness, traceability, and testability.
• Develop and execute verification plans, protocols, test cases, and associated records in accordance with Quality System requirements (QMetry).
• Document, investigate, reproduce, and verify software defects using Jira or an approved defect-management system.
• Analyze test results, identify failure patterns, and communicate product-quality and automation findings to project stakeholders.
• Maintain automated test assets under configuration control and participate in code reviews.
• Evaluate and apply approved AI-assisted engineering tools to support test design, test generation, code review, and validation while maintaining appropriate human review and control.
• Collaborate with software engineers, systems engineers, scientists, product owners, and SQA personnel throughout the software lifecycle.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Python

TestComplete

Shell scripting

SQL

Git

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

Bio-Techne is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable automated tests for instrument software, data pipelines, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled applications in the Life Sciences field.

The role collaborates with software engineers, scientists, product owners, and SQA to ensure tests are comprehensive, traceable, and compliant with Quality System requirements. It contributes to automation architecture and test-data design throughout the lifecycle.