Software Test Engineer II

Work Schedule:

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions:

Office

Join our team as a Software Test Engineer II and contribute to ensuring the quality and reliability of advanced software solutions. You will work on sophisticated applications that control analytical instruments, including mass spectrometers, electron microscopes, and other advanced scientific equipment. As part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team, you will work with developers, scientists, and stakeholders to validate software that enables groundbreaking research and innovation. Your work will directly impact scientific discoveries in fields like cancer research, drug development, and semiconductor manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in software quality activities throughout the complete software development lifecycle, including requirements review, design review, test planning, verification, validation, release, and product support.
• Develop and execute comprehensive software test strategies, test plans, test cases, test procedures, and test reports.
• Perform functional, system, integration, regression, smoke, positive, negative, and exploratory testing of bioinformatics and software applications.
• Perform software/OS system upgrade testing mimicking customer upgrade scenarios.
• Perform software installation and integrity tests.
• Verify software functionality against defined product and system requirements.
• Review product and software requirements for clarity, completeness, testability, and traceability.
• Develop and maintain appropriate requirements-to-test traceability and verification evidence.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated software tests to improve test coverage, repeatability, and efficiency.
• Perform testing of APIs, web services, user interfaces, backend services, data-processing workflows, and system integrations.
• Validate complex bioinformatics workflows, genomic data-analysis pipelines, and software features involving large biological datasets.
• Identify software defects, document issues clearly, investigate failures, support root-cause analysis, and verify defect resolution.
• Collaborate with software developers and bioinformatics teams to identify product risks, improve testability, and ensure effective verification of software features.
• Participate in test reviews, design reviews, requirement reviews, and technical discussions.
• Contribute to automated testing within Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
• Continuously improve software testing methodologies, automation frameworks, testing efficiency, and overall product quality.
• Contribute to defining and monitoring software quality metrics and identifying opportunities for quality improvement.
• Maintain high-quality Software QA and Verification & Validation documentation.
• Support software releases by providing appropriate testing evidence, quality assessment, and verification status.
• Work effectively across multiple projects and collaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Participate actively in Agile/Scrum activities such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and defect triage.

Experience:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience within Bioinformatics/Software Quality Assurance.
• Software QA / Verification & Validation experience.
• Strong Linux system knowledge (hands-on experience) - must have.
• Docker and Kubernetes environments with SQL and database validation.
• Test automation expertise.
• Experience with regulated software environments.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive software quality activities.