Staff Engineer, Software Test

Job Description

Digital Engineering is Thermo Fisher’s “Software Engineering” centre of excellence in Bengaluru. This centre of excellence provides world-class software and cloud computing service that helps scientists do their work more efficiently and with precision, enabling them to make our world healthier, cleaner, and safer.  

Our world-class software products and solutions accelerate scientific discovery and lab productivity. These solutions:

• Provide rich content, selection tools, collaboration tools and scientific apps that allow our customers to focus on innovation and the complexities of their science.  

• Build a connected world for our customers where discoveries happen the thoughtful way, where every device/product is connected, self-aware, and self-healing—thereby enabling efficient workflows and collaborative science.  

We apply industry standard methodologies to the design, development, and deployment of outstanding software products built to demonstrate the power and scalability of the cloud. 

The role is of a hands-on Staff Software Test Engineer (Automation) who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming thereby actively contributing to the development of new features. This person will be a member of a multi-functional scrum team delivering Connect Platform & Ecosystem, Customer tenancy, Authorization, and Digital product subscriptions and entitlements. The role is expected to make a difference to the product in terms of the design and contribute towards identifying technical risks and alternate solutions to various problems. In addition to that, the role also demands leading, motivating, mentoring, and providing ample guidance to the other team members concerning technical challenges. 

• The Software Test Engineer (Automation) is the role responsible for creating repeatable automated Test Cases against the application under test.
• The Software Test Engineer will create automated Test Cases based upon existing manual test cases and/or a feature’s acceptance criteria.
• Will execute Test Cases to produce test results • Will communicate with development about any defects found.
• The Software Test Engineer will work across teams building relationships with development and the product manager.
• Active participation in various scrum ceremonies such as Story grooming, sprint planning sessions etc., and work towards identifying technical risks, alternate solutions to various problems etc. 
• Responsible for E2E ownership (Design to support) of multiple significant software modules.  
• Responsible for leading the integrity of technical work on significant concurrent projects. 
• Plans to participate and perform the technical work of an assignment. 

• Leads the implementation, automate test, and integration testing, automation code reviews, debugging and integration of code of utmost complexity across multiple concurrent projects. 
• Proactively looks for ways and patterns to continuously automate feature testing with measurable and tangible goals.
• Anticipates needs and problems while creating solutions. Is willing to ask difficult questions and do things differently. Greets challenge and change as an opportunity 
• A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “figure out what needs figuring out” .
• Actively participate in the development community of practices in sharing and learning standard methodologies, leading initiatives within the community and involve in other organization initiatives 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively document artefacts and processes and then explain them to others  

Education:  BS degree desired in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline with 7+ years related relevant experience.

• Minimum 7 years experience in Java, .Net, Golang or PytService-orientated architecture, micro-service testing, and API testing.
• Strong in programming subject areas like object-oriented principles, design patterns, data structures and unit testing (TDD using JUnit), Domain-driven Design (DDD). 
• Working knowledge of Cucumber testing for behavior-driven development (BDD).
• Experience building and managing relationships with test engineers on a global team.
• Experience with Agile development practices such as Scrum or Kanban and related tools such as Atlassian Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Proven experience of 3 or more years with databases (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle/NoSQL DB), persistence frameworks, and SQL .
• Experience with defining and implementing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR – Security, Performance, Cost etc.).  
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery pipelines (Jenkins declarative, or similar).
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration with technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
• Testing awareness for cybersecurity threats (OWASP Top 10).

Nice to Have Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:  

• Experience with development on one or more mobile platforms is a plus. 
• Experience with quality, code analysis and Configuration tools like SonarQube, Semmle, Veracode, NetSparker, Ansible etc.  
• Minimum 2 years experience in Cloud computing using AWS (Amazon Web Services) such as S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SES, EC2 

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!