About the position
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. The position of Software Test Engineer II represents test engineering throughout the Software Development Lifecycle, performing all the verification and validation SQA functions including test case creation and execution, exploratory testing, and test plan and report creation. This role heavily interacts with development and quality teams to ensure the right tests are being written and executed, and includes internal technical leadership tasks.
Responsibilities
- Investigate unexpected events, issues, or software bugs.
- Collaborate in cross-functional teams to troubleshoot complex system-level field complaints.
- Report to team leadership on investigation outcomes and recommend test plans.
- Verify fixes.
- Complete software testing and activities for development user stories within the SDLC process.
- Perform exploratory testing, system level end-to-end testing, develop test datasets and execute automation scripts.
- Evaluate test cases for automation suitability and execute conversion as required.
- Review System Specifications/Requirements documents, user stories and create verification test plans/cases.
- Evaluate test plans for sufficient test coverage.
- Ensure efficiency of test plans by identifying overlap with other testing efforts and adjust accordingly.
- Create verification and validation test plans, test reports, trace matrices and review with relevant stakeholders.
- Review other test plans and provide feedback concerning potential gaps or overlaps.
- Review deliverables/activities as identified in the test plans for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and compliance.
- Provide input/feedback to development team when design inputs are being updated.
- Provide regular status reports.
- Use established metrics to monitor status and progress.
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science or related engineering field with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
- Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Moderate level of ability to conduct thorough data analytics & implement data-driven solutions.
- Moderate level of knowledge with continuous integration & continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Moderate knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Moderate level of understanding of test methodologies.
- Experience with Quality Center/HP ALM.
- Testing experience with web-based User Interfaces.
- Testing experience with SUSE, Apache, and Postgres systems.
- Experience working in a medical lab (experience in medical devices).
- Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical & problem-solving skills.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities.
Benefits
- Career development with an international company.
- Free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit.
- Recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries.
- Named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- Recognized as one of the best big companies to work for and a best place to work for diversity.
