Engineer III, Software Test

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Staff Engineer, Software V&V

At Thermo Fisher, our mission is cure cancer with genomic data. It is a close-knit, collaborative, multi-functional setting where we believe none of us is as inquisitive as all of us, and we each have something valuable to chip in toward our goal. The software services team is tasked with applying industry standard processes to the design, development, and deployment of outstanding software products. We are looking to hire individuals with experience with software development and test engineering in clinical and research settings, and who can help us address the next wave of technical challenges using the latest cloud-based, big-data, and rich analytics toolsets.

We are seeking hard-working Leader in Software V&V who will define scope, design, for automated and manual tests for bioinformatics' software. We require strong coding skills as well as a validated understanding of Quality Assurance principles and Continuous Integration methods. You will own strategies for test APIs, user interfaces, web services, and/or web apps and write performance, load, and stress tests.

You are open and passionate about participating in an Agile/SCRUM setting to meet and exceed customer expectations and continuously drive towards quality improvements. You like the idea of collaborating with users and other team members to brainstorm the best possible approaches to validating systems. You accept the challenge of work in a fast-paced environment and will be genuinely passionate about the prospect of creatively exercising your problem-solving skills continuously to ultimately improve the human condition.

Functions:

• Develop and implement software testing Strategy, Methods and Best Practices that allow high quality NGS analytics and instruments software products.
• Lead and mentor a group of bioinformatics and software test engineers.
• Establish software quality standards and metrics to actively measure software product quality.
• Implement software quality tracking tools and methodologies to provide updates of ongoing work and actions during software product development lifecycle.
• Partner with software and bioinformatics leadership, functional and project managers to identify appropriate scope of software testing and validation.
• Partner with internal and external collaborators to drive the requirements for regulated assays and software.

Minimum Qualifications (must have):

• Masters/PhD preferred or Bachelors with minimum 5+ years of work experience and consistent record of industry efficiency. Experience performing software verification and validation testing, preferably in the medical device/ biotech space
• Strong understanding of NGS-based software, IVD assay development practices and informatics data analysis pipelines.
• Strong leadership abilities and extensive experience handling the activities of software quality engineering and quality assurance teams. Experience leading multi-functional, multi-site teams preferred.
• Experience in software development methodologies or processes.
• Ability to work well with senior leadership and experience working in a fast paced environment.