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At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

The Software Test Engineer is responsible for the overall testing of systems including functional testing of new requirements, operational testing and regression. In this role, you will play a vital part in crafting our data strategy by building test plans and recommending strategies to accomplish functional, system and regression testing of capabilities (both ongoing and new capabilities).

You will bring your strong experience in diverse types of testing, including manual, automated, and user acceptance testing and make recommendations during requirements gathering to ensure the solution is defined in a way that can be successfully implemented.

This role will require excellent communication skills working in close collaboration with software developers and engineers, product owners and business partners to provide solutions for our clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries.

This is a remote position for candidates based in Bulgaria & Poland.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project owners and clients to define the requirements for product testing

• Lead the creation, development, and execution of test strategies and plans, demonstrating critical thinking and leadership.

• Write acceptance criteria, test cases, automation scripts and actively participate in enhancing the existing testing frameworks and methodologies.

• Conduct system, regression, user acceptance, integration, and performance testing to ensure high-quality results.

• Develop modeling and simulation requirements for enhancements and tools to automate the collection of test data

• Solve sophisticated product issues by researching bug reports and collaborating with engineering team to deliver solutions

• Coordinate testing schedules and provide progress or status to product owners

• Provide leadership and mentoring to junior team members as needed

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

• Previous experience with software testing methodologies that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5 years’ experience).

• Experience using automation frameworks such as Selenium, TestNG, CodedUI

• Background with test automation programming skills, bug tracking and reporting

• Experience in writing tests supported by at least one modern Object Oriented development language like Python, JS, C#.

• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to create design artifacts for user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed UI designs.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

• Knowledge of Life Sciences systems and business is a plus

• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management

• Deep technical knowledge and experience working in a data-focused organization

• Flexible and comfortable with changing direction and competing priorities

• Client focused approach

• Exceptional communication skills in English (written and oral), with a consistent record of building strong relationships

• Tight-knit collaboration skills to work effectively with global multi-functional teams

• Strong commitment to quality and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality software products

Management Role:

• No management responsibility

PPD values the health and well-being of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.

• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.

• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.

• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.

• May require as-needed travel (0-20%).

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.