Sr Staff Engineer Software V&V

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher, our mission is to cure cancer with genomic data. It is a close-knit, collaborative, cross-functional setting where we believe none of us is as smart as all of us and we each have something valuable to contribute toward our goal. The software services team is tasked with applying industry best practices to the design, development, and deployment of world-class 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 solve the next wave of technical challenges using the latest cloud-based, big-data, and rich analytics toolsets.

We are seeking enthusiastic Leader in Software Verification and Validation who will define scope, design, for automated and manual tests for highly advanced bioinformatics software. We require strong coding skills as well as a solid understanding of Quality Assurance principles and Continuous Integration methods. You will drive writing positive and negative smoke and regression test scripts to test product functionality and integration with dependencies. You will drive strategies for test APIs, user interfaces, web services, and/or web apps and write performance, load, and stress tests.

You are excited 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 partnering with users and other team members to brainstorm the best possible approaches to validating systems. You welcome the challenge of working in a fast-paced, discovery-oriented environment and will be genuinely excited about the prospect of creatively exercising your problem-solving skills continuously to ultimately improve the human condition.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and implement software testing Strategy, Methods and Best Practices that allow high quality NGS analytics and instruments software products to be designed, developed, and released into the regulated in-vitro diagnostics/ medical device space.

• Lead and mentor a group of bioinformatics and software test engineers.

• Establish software quality standards and KPI metrics to actively measure software and bioinformatics product quality. Implement software quality tracking tools and methodologies to provide on-going visibility and action during software product development lifecycle.