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About the Role
As part of the Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing software team, you will help ensure the quality, reliability, and compliance of software used in Ion Torrent semiconductor DNA sequencing product lines. This role focuses on testing embedded instrument control software and its integration with server, web application. You will contribute to system-level and integration testing across instrument software, backend services, web applications, databases, and connected workflows. You will participate in requirements reviews, risk analysis, test planning, defect investigation, and verification activities for RUO and diagnostic products. Your work will help ensure that software is fit for intended use, mitigates identified risks, and meets applicable quality and regulatory expectations.
Responsibilities
- Define the scope of testing within the context of each software release for web application and embedded instrument control software
- Participate in writing EPICs and User Stories in JIRA by gathering the requirements from Product Management, System Engineering, Molecular Biology, global support teams.
- Write test plans which includes testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules. Estimate the testing efforts
- Plan, deploy and manage the testing activities for sanity, regression, system testing, integration testing, installation testing of the Embedded instrument control software and web application software during the entire development and verification stages.
- Write and review test cases, test strategy, test data, reports, and trace matrices, ensuring design compliance and test coverage
- Generate and maintain Test Summary Reports, bug reports, traceability matrix, risk analysis.
- Initiate and support product quality improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree and 8+ years of Software testing experience, or Master’s degree and 6+ years Software testing experience.
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle and software testing life cycle.
- Good understanding of testing methodologies, regression, sanity, performance, feature verification testing
- Good understanding of software testing best-practices.
- Experience in writing test plans, test cases, simulating test data for software verification of medical devices.
- Experience in new product development from product realization to product launch
- Prior experience in Agile software development methodology
- Utilized HP ALM and Jira
- Strong expertise in Linux/Unix operating system
Skills
- Previous experience testing embedded instrument control software
- Self-motivation, problem solving ability, organizational skills, thoughtful and detail-oriented
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Driven to deliver quality results on time and in a highly ethical and professional manner
Location
- South San Francisco
Work Type
- Standard (Mon-Fri)
Experience Level
- 8+ years of Software testing experience
- 6+ years Software testing experience
Education Level
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field of study.
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000.00–$166,700.00
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
About the Company
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.