Base Salary
$135k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own QA strategy, test architecture, coverage models, and quality standards across Agile sprints and product release cycles.
- Create and execute manual test plans, test cases, exploratory tests, regression tests, and test documentation.
- Manage defect lifecycles, test planning, sprint reporting, and cross-team quality visibility using Jira or an equivalent tool.
- Participate in requirements reviews, architecture discussions, and sprint grooming to promote early quality involvement.
- Validate software builds, document test results, investigate failures, and support release-readiness decisions.
- Improve QA processes using Danaher Business System principles and collaborate with software, product, application science, and hardware teams.
- Support software verification and hardware-software integration testing in laboratory and instrument environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of software quality assurance experience, including ownership of manual test strategy, planning, test case design, execution, and defect management for complex software products.
- Strong hands-on experience with manual functional, integration, system, exploratory, and regression testing.
- Experience validating software builds, documenting test results, investigating failures, and supporting release-readiness decisions.
- Experience using Jira or an equivalent defect tracking and lifecycle management tool.
- Familiarity with creating and troubleshooting automated tests and experience with CI/CD tools are preferred.
- Experience with imaging, acquisition, and analysis software platforms in life science or laboratory instrument environments is preferred.
- Experience with hardware-software integration testing for imaging platforms, automated liquid handlers, or robotic workflows is preferred.
Benefits
- On-site role in San Jose, California, with work in office and laboratory/instrument environments as needed.
- Occasional travel may be required for cross-site collaboration, product validation, or customer engagement.
- Comprehensive benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan for eligible employees.
- Eligible for bonus or incentive pay.
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About Danaher
Danaher is a leading global life sciences and diagnostics innovator, committed to accelerating the power of science and technology to improve human health. We partner with customers around the world to accelerate breakthroughs from idea to impact, moving with the speed and certainty they need to advance life‑changing science. By working side‑by‑side with researchers, scientists, and clinicians, we solve their hardest problems—together, bringing the right expertise, technologies, and partners from across our portfolio to architect the most effective solutions. Through our connected ecosystem of companies operating at global scale, we help customers streamline and integrate their workflows across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology, and beyond—empowering them to achieve results faster, with greater confidence.