Engineer , Software Test – Bangalore

Job Description:
We are seeking enthusiastic software test engineers who will scope, design, implement, and maintain automated and manual tests for scientific software.

Essential Functions:

• Serve as a customer advocate and ensure quality and usability of our software
• Collaborate with other engineers and product managers in the business to understand and provide input to product requirements.
• Analyze and develop test plans and protocols for AWS/Web based tools and apps that scientists will use.
• Perform and coordinate QA activities such as estimation, test planning, test design, preparation of traceability matrix, test execution, test results analysis and reporting.
• Effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats.
• Develop custom Quality Assurance Metrics and reporting solutions using JIRA
• Participate in project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents.
• Maintain excellent knowledge base of industry trends and developments.
• Represent the team in cross-organizational development forums as well as customer requirements gathering and software validation and training sessions
• Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand complex problems and resolve them efficiently, Use prior knowledge and experience to provide functional and technical support and leadership to colleagues
• Participate in training and orienting new test engineers as they join the team

Minimum Qualifications (must Have):

• Excited about building world-class software solutions that improve lives.
• Masters Degree in Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Biology or another applicable domain pertinent to Life Sciences
• Experience in development of validation test plans, plan execution and report generation.
• Platforms: Experience with Win XP, Vista, UNIX or a UNIX-like platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris)
• Demonstrated programming experience in any language such as Perl, Python or Java.
• Has relevant past experience working in a wet lab, employing techniques in molecular and/or cellular biology

Preferred Qualifications (nice To Have):

• Experience with Selenium or other test automation frameworks
• Experience working within an Agile development process (Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to present technical information to both business and technology teams with clarity and precision.
• Experience with multiple common bioinformatics programs such as BLAST, phred, phrap, consed, genscan.

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Requeriments :

• M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• Cell Biology
• Lunix/Unix
• molecular biology
• Programing in Python
• Programing Skills
• Programming in Java
• Programming in PERL

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
At Thermo Fisher, our mission is to build intuitive software and tools that can be used by scientists.

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