Staff Engineer, Software Test
Thermo Fisher Scientific1 day ago
Base Salary
$125k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define testing scope for software releases involving web applications and embedded instrument control software.
- Write and review test plans, test cases, test strategies, test data, reports, and traceability matrices.
- Plan, deploy, and manage sanity, regression, system, integration, and installation testing throughout development and verification.
- Participate in requirements reviews, risk analysis, defect investigation, and verification activities.
- Create and maintain test summary reports, bug reports, traceability matrices, and risk analyses.
- Support product quality improvements and participate in writing epics and user stories in JIRA.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field plus 8+ years of software testing experience, or a master’s degree plus 6+ years of software testing experience.
- Understanding of software development and testing life cycles, testing methodologies, regression, sanity, performance, and feature verification testing.
- Experience writing test plans and test cases and simulating test data for software verification of medical devices.
- Experience with new product development from product realization through product launch.
- Experience with Agile software development and use of HP ALM and JIRA.
- Strong expertise with Linux/Unix operating systems.
- Previous experience testing embedded instrument control software.
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, written communication, verbal communication, and attention-to-detail skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with health incentive programs.
- Employee assistance and family support programs, commuter benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
- At least 120 hours of paid time off, 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave, accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability according to company policy.
- Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted company stock purchases for eligible colleagues.
- Standard Monday-Friday schedule in a laboratory setting; position located in South San Francisco, California.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific builds analytical instruments, lab equipment and consumables, specialty diagnostics, and provides pharma services (CDMO and clinical research) for biotech, pharma, academic, and healthcare customers. It earns revenue through product sales, e-commerce distribution (Fisher Scientific), and contract services under brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Patheon, and PPD. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (TMO) and was created by the 2006 merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.