Bioinformatics QA Engineer

Job Description:
Responsibilities:

• Ability to understand and explain domain concept to the team in correct and timely manner.
• Ability to interact with customer to figure out the details of work related to domain area.
• Works as an embedded domain resource in the team of size 4-5 on Life Sciences projects.

Qualifications:

BE/MSc or Equivalent in life sciences streams like molecular biology, biotechnology, medicine, bioinformatics etc. with exposure to informatics courses in life sciences

Experience:

3-5 years of experience in Life Sciences IT industry. Experience in NGS is good to have.

Required Skills:

• Good knowledge of at least one programming environment like Perl, Python, Shell etc.
• Sound knowledge of high throughput NGS techniques & algorithms.
• Sound knowledge of different databases like MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL etc.
• Skills in writing and executing test cases, keeping log of results and finding/logging of bugs.
• Sound knowledge of software development methodologies; especially agile.
• Ability to gather information on new concepts in the domain and make presentations.
• Ability to effectively participate in telecons with the customer and give the customer confidence on the work being done.
• Self-motivated individual.
• Communications and Interactions.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Experience: Quality Assurance: 1 year (Required)

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Requeriments :

• Technical Bachelor

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Next Generation Sequencing
• NoSQL
• Programing in Python
• Programing Skills
• Programming in PERL
• Shell scripting
• Software Design

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
Position: Bioinformatics QA

Location: South SFO, CA

Duration: 6 months

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