Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

Senior Software Test Engineer

This position is based in Uppsala, where Thermo Fisher develops, manufactures, and markets complete blood test systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy, asthma and autoimmune diseases. With 1,900 employees worldwide, and 1,000 in Sweden, we are the global leader in in-vitro allergy testing and the European leader in autoimmunity diagnostics.

Read how our R&D professionals in Sweden are enjoying our innovative work atmosphere and the role they are playing in helping humankind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW6AYxC4l10

Discover Impactful Work

Are you looking for a meaningful job in an international company with strong values? Would you like to use your knowledge as a senior software test engineer and have a possibility to help our customers in how they conduct and diagnose allergies and autoimmune diseases around the world?

If you’re passionate about providing high quality software products, we encourage you to apply. We are strengthening our software development team within product development, and you will play a meaningful role in providing software product quality for our diagnostic devices. We can offer you an exciting and rewarding career where you will get a phenomenal opportunity to develop your technical and professional skills in one of the world's largest life science companies.

A day in the Life

As a Senior Software Test engineer at Thermo Fisher, you will mainly work with planning, leading, performing and reporting software test activities during software product development. You will, for example:

• Participate in the design, development, and implementation of new software products as well as the maintenance and improvement of existing software.

• Responsible for coordinating the efforts of a team of product evaluation test engineers and scientists.

• Work closely with global scrum teams to develop testing materials that ensure software products meet the specifications.

• Build and follow Test Plans, and Test Cases, establish pass/fail test criteria, document issues, and perform final verification of defect resolutions.

• Author test documents and status reports

• Communicate status and issues to other functional teams and stake holders.

• Evaluation and Acceptance of Requirements

• Participate in project planning and progress tracking.

Keys to Success

To succeed in this role, you are agile, resilient, and take ownership for your development. You never compromise on quality and always act responsibly remembering that our customers always come first. You speak and write excellent English.

We operate in a heavily regulated industry, so it is important that you have a structured way of working and document your work in line with the quality system. You are a great teammate who finds it easy to collaborate and communicate with others, and you are comfortable in leading and motivating your team members.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global company, so it is important that you enjoy working in an international and changing work environment, in a team that wants to have fun at work helping each other to create great products.

Education

• Preferred education level: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields. Graduate degree is desirable.

Experience

• At least 6+ years of work experience preferred as a software test engineer or equivalent role.

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle.

• Experience from either software, hardware or system testing in a regulated environment.

• Familiarity with medical/in-vitro-diagnostic equipment, associated software and common deployment models.

• Extensive experience with automation testing and tools. UFT experience is a merit.

• Ability to write automation scripts.

• Experience in Requirement analysis, Test Design, Test Execution, and Defect tracking.

• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.

• Certifications in software testing, such as ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) is desired.

Work Environment

You will work from our office in Uppsala, Sweden with possibility for remote work in line with our policies.

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! We believe it is not only the salary that matters when you decide to take up employment with us. We also offer a range of attractive benefits, together with a meaningful purpose and an exciting working environment where you can truly develop your potential. We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits such as health benefits, flexible working hours, and a bonus scheme for all employees.

Apply today http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.