R&D Test Engineer
Agilent Technologies8 days ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$117k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own quality planning, test strategy, and validation activities for one or more software products.
- Define and execute risk-based functional, integration, regression, exploratory, API, and automated testing.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform backend, database, data validation, and system integration testing.
- Review requirements and designs for testability, quality, and customer value.
- Identify quality risks, perform root cause analysis, and drive preventative quality engineering practices.
- Contribute to test environment management, test data strategy, release readiness, and defect governance.
- Drive continuous improvement of testing frameworks and engineering processes.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across quality initiatives.
- Support compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory validation activities where applicable.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 4 years of software testing, quality engineering, or software development experience; 5 years is helpful.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing comprehensive test strategies and test plans.
- Strong understanding of functional, integration, system, regression, and exploratory testing methodologies.
- Experience with test automation frameworks and automated testing practices.
- Experience validating web applications, APIs, microservices, and enterprise software systems.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause investigation skills.
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated testing solutions.
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting automated tests in CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
- Preferred experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, REST API testing, or similar automation technologies.
- Preferred experience testing cloud-native or SaaS applications and using AI-assisted testing tools or intelligent quality engineering approaches.
- Preferred experience in laboratory informatics, compliance software, scientific software, or regulated environments.
- Preferred experience with performance, security, and reliability testing.
- Preferred experience mentoring engineers or leading quality initiatives across multiple teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently while influencing cross-functional teams and technical decisions.
Benefits
- Full-time position with the option to work remotely.
- Day shift with occasional travel.
- No stated end date; applications accepted until at least October 21, 2026 or until the posting is removed.
Tech Stack
CypressGitHub ActionsJenkinsPostmanSelenium
Categories
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies builds analytical instruments, lab software, diagnostic and genomics solutions, plus consumables and services used by pharmaceutical, chemical, environmental, and clinical labs. It sells systems such as chromatography and mass spectrometry platforms, pathology and molecular diagnostic kits, and supports lab operations through its CrossLab services business. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Agilent is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: A) with global manufacturing and R&D sites.