Software Test Engineer (SDET)

at  Abbott Laboratories

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in a scientific, technical, or engineering discipline
• 4 years’ experience in Software Testing and/or Software Quality Assurance
• 2 years’ experience working as Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
• Must be technically strong and have experience testing mobile applications
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Medical Device experience strongly preferred
• Experience in an agile development environment preferred
• Experience with embedded systems and integration testing with external systems preferred
• Cyber security, medical mobile applications or cloud computing experience preferred

• Complete software testing and activities in conjunction for user stories within the Agile SDLC process (products supported may be more technical in nature, i.e. SDK or API type products)
• Create or consult on verification and validation test plans, test reports, trace matrices to incorporate the automated tests and review with relevant stakeholders (dev and quality)
• Create an automation framework for mobile apps (iOS and Android)
• Develop and improve robust test automation framework. Ensure the framework works in conjunction with the Quality Management system as well as provides strong and quick feedback for Agile development. Ensure the framework covers functional, end to end, compatibility and use case scenarios. This will also require working with DevOps and other teams to integrate test automation with build systems, test management system, and device cloud.
• Mentor and provide day to day guidance to the junior members of the software test team. Review work to ensure compliance and quality
• Develop automated metric tools for management purposes
• Provide feedback and suggest improvements to the Agile SDLC process