About the Job

The Principal Software Engineer in Test is a key member of the Engineering team. The focus of this position is to help develop solutions to bridge any gaps in overall test coverage which can impact all groups within Engineering. This position is responsible for providing test support of enterprise applications, as well as functionality at the system level. The Principal Software Engineer in Test partners closely with DevOps teams, Value Stream teams, as well as the test tools team, to strategically include manual and automated tests to cover requirements. This position works to drive best practices, integrating continuous automated testing, and the instantiation of automation scripts. The result of this position is driving the use of efficient process and ensuring end-to-end functionality of all systems works as expected. 

The Principal Software Engineer in Test is a key member of the Engineering team. The focus of this position is to help develop solutions to bridge any gaps in overall test coverage which can impact all groups within Engineering. This position is responsible for providing test support of enterprise applications, as well as functionality at the system level. The Principal Software Quality Engineer is expected to be a hands-on leader who can leverage prior experience working on complex solutions. This person should foster the use of new technologies to quickly help drive continuous improvements. This includes but is not limited too; functional testing, Integration testing, api automation, UI automation, CI and CD as well as performance ad security testing. The successful candidate should be comfortable contributing to existing automation efforts and should have prior expertise with frameworks and tools such as Jenkins. The Principal Software Development Engineer in Test must be able to comprehend complex systems and associated integrations. The result of this position is driving the use of efficient process and ensuring end-to-end functionality of all systems works as expected. You will do this while fostering continuous improvements and driving automation first model to help us create solutions which provide quicker turnaround time on results which can have a positive impact on a patient’s treatment.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform gap analysis of current state of testing, automation, and testing infrastructure across products and identify areas of improvements.
• Leverage prior experience to enhance our CI/CD pipelines.
• Review test strategies, plans, cases and coverage and provide input to risks based on product requirements.
• Develop automated tests, test harnesses, and applications and services under test.
• Contribute to test activities such as Performance, Stress and Longevity.
• Interact with Quality Assurance team and FMI technical partners to understand systems and component specifications and recommend changes to facilitate efficient and effective testing.
• Collaborate directly with software developers, product managers, and business analysts to ensure proper development and quality of FMI applications and products.
• Drive testability and diagnostic ability into products.
• Participate in efforts to share FMI testing technology and expertise within the company.
• Perform tasks to meet project deadlines and work together with team to ensure project success.
• Help define and participate in software development processes that leverages best practice and supports continuous product delivery.
• Participate in and conduct regular peer design and code reviews.
• Conform to coding conventions and all aspects of the software development life cycle.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in an Engineering discipline, OR a Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, OR 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: .NET, Python or Java

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior design level experience with CI/CD environments and containerization software
• Working Experience with API testing and test automation frameworks and tools
• Experience in testing enterprise level systems and applications
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD implementations and the ability to develop scripts and parameters
• Experience with Security testing and static analysis tools
• Experience with Selenium web driver, Selenium Grid and Cucumber
• Significant experience in quality assurance processes, software lifecycle, testing, planning, execution & defect tracking
• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies
• Significant hands-on experience in solution design in the development of automated tests leveraging advanced Microsoft and Cloud platforms using Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven-Development (BDD) methods
• Experience with code coverage metrics and implementation of tools
• Strong experience developing high quality automation frameworks
• Experience with automation, web deployment and engineering environment tools such as Mocha, Jasmine, JIRA, Github, Gitlab
• Experience in testing applications on Cloud infrastructure, including Azure and Amazon Web Services
• Experience working in distributed SOA environments including REST services
• Experience in querying complex schemas and relational databases
• Experience working in Food and Drug Administration or Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments adherent environment
• Proven knowledge of a standard software quality assurance methodology, components, deliverables, and how these integrate within the software development lifecycle
• Strong understanding of configuration management tools
• Knowledge of source control tool with preference for Perforce or GitLab
• Understanding of HIPAA and importance of privacy of patient data
• Commitment to FMI values: patients, innovation, collaboration, and passion

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