Senior Software Test Engineer / Lead Software Quality Assurance

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.
Transmission electronic microscopes are the most sophisticated laboratory instruments that are used today. Platform Software is essential into exploiting all the potential of these microscopes, pushing the limits of current physical technologies. These tools and our software applications are used by scientists and engineers in life science, material sciences and semiconductor industry, indirectly affecting our life in many aspects. By contributing into this platform software, you might help developing better vaccines, new lighter and stronger materials, or more efficient semiconductors.
Get more insights on our High-Tech Transmission Electron Microscope workflow domains via these links. These sophisticated tools are being developed, market and manufactured in our cleanrooms in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where this role is also positioned.

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:

• Agile attitude
• Great teammate with strong communication skills
• Experience with Python or relevant test automation technologies
• Experience with tool chain that includes Jira, Git, Jenkins
• Good understanding of test processes, methodologies and standards, preferably underpinned by an ISTQB certification.
• Risk based testing, to improve test resource usage efficiency and apply the most suitable test technique
• Strong communication and management skills.
• Well-structured way of working.
• Eagerness/drive to get results (also from others) within project timelines.
• Combination of orderliness and technical skills.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The successful candidate will possess the following combination of education and experience:

• Technical master’s or bachelor’s degree (e.g. Software Engineering, Computer Science or Electronic Engineering, Applied Physics).
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in test design and testing of complex multidisciplinary (hardware/software) systems.
• Experience with different testing techniques, functional and nonfunctional testing and test automation.
• Experience with quality improvement (processes and products).

Competencies:

The successful candidate will possess the following competencies:

• A great teammate within a dynamic environment
• Analytical view combined with a pragmatic and hands-on attitude (flexibility)
• Working experience with Agile / Scrum
• Good understanding of test processes, methodologies, and standards, preferably underpinned by an ISTQB certification
• Hands-on approach
• Risk based testing, to improve test resource usage efficiency and apply the most suitable test technique
• Basic experience in programming or scripting (preferably python)
• Interpersonal communications skills are required due to the high degree of interaction
• Well-structured way of working
• Eagerness/drive to get results (also from others) within project timelines
• Combination of orderliness and technical skills
• Quality and sustainability focus

WHEN YOUR EXPERIENCE MEETS THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA, THIS WOULD GIVE YOU AN ADVANTAGE.

• Knowledge of Optics
• Knowledge/hands on experience of (Electron) Microscopy
• Experience with Squish to automate tests

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this position you will have dual responsibilities. About half of your time will be spent working closely with software development teams. In this role you will focus on test automation. You will create automated software tests and help the development teams creating automated tests at system level.
Next to this you will have responsibilities to align testing, including test documentation, test execution, test automation, test reporting, etc. across the Automation group. You will work with architects, technical leads, test engineers, and product owners to align testing and test strategies between different teams located at different locations.
You are responsible to align test strategy, test architecture and test plans across the automation group. The group consists of teams in our offices in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Brno, Czech Republic.
To accomplish this is essential to also build extensive knowledge of Transmission Electron Microscopes. You shall build experience using and operating a microscope and be able to manually or automated complete tests on a test system with R&D.

SPECIFIC (SQA) RESPONSIBILITIES ARE:

• Review requirements, User stories and assess risks.
• Write test plans including planning estimations.
• Review integration testing and feature delivery.
• Write test specs, implement automatic test scripts, and review test specs of colleagues.
• Execute test cases, analyzing test results and write test reports.
• Report test progress and provide an independent and substantiated release advice.
• Initiate and support product quality improvements.
• Lead test activates at software and system level.
• Align testing and test automation across the group, across sites.
• Design and implement automated and manual test cases
• Plan, manage and coordinate sprint-based test automation team activities via the backlog
• Provide technical leadership, direction and hands-on assistance to other members of the team
• Act as the entry point for system level test automation related issues
• Identify and follow-up on opportunities to improve
• Mentors other test engineers in test automation methodologies and alignment to overall testing strategy
• Identify issues / bottlenecks in the infrastructure domain of the test environment