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Lead Software Test Engineer

Role overview

Summary

This role is for a Lead Software Test Engineer at Cytiva, focusing on defining and driving software testing strategies. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance software quality and testing processes, ensuring effective defect resolution and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.
  • Long-standing experience in software testing, verification, or software quality engineering.
  • Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, including functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and risk-based testing.
  • Experience in requirements analysis, test scenario and test case design, and software integration.
  • Strong experience in defect management and quality risk assessment, using tools such as Azure DevOps or ALM.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive software testing and verification strategies across various testing types.
  • Design, review, and execute test scenarios and test cases, leading integration and end-to-end testing.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify quality risks and requirement gaps early in the development lifecycle.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring in software testing and quality engineering.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration

About the company

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Integrated DNA Technologies

  • Biotech & Genomics
  • Large
  • 1,001–5,000
Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT) develops, manufactures, and markets nucleic acid products for the life sciences industry in the areas of academic and commercial research, agriculture, medical diagnostics, and pharmaceutical development. IDT has developed proprietary technologies for genomic applications such as next generation sequencing, CRISPR genome editing, synthetic biology, digital PCR, and RNA interference. Through its GMP services, IDT manufactures products used by scientists researching many forms of cancer and most inherited and infectious diseases. IDT is widely recognized as an industry leader in custom nucleic acid manufacture, serving over 130,000 life sciences researchers. IDT was founded in 1987 in the United States and has its U.S. manufacturing headquarters in Coralville, Iowa, with additional U.S. manufacturing sites in San Diego, California; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and Ann Arbor, Michigan; with international sites in Leuven, Belgium and Singapore. *For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, IDT does not intend these products to be used in clinical applications and does not warrant their fitness or suitability for any clinical diagnostic use. Purchaser is solely responsible for all decisions regarding the use of these products and any associated regulatory or legal obligations

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Job description

What you will do:

  • Define and drive software testing and verification strategies, ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and risk-based testing.
  • Design, review, and execute test scenarios and test cases, lead integration and end-to-end testing, analyze failures, and drive effective defect resolution.
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to identify quality risks, requirement gaps, traceability issues, and testability concerns early in the development lifecycle.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring in software testing and quality engineering, driving best practices, continuous improvement, and release-readiness assessments.
  • Improve testing processes, methodologies, tools, and efficiency, including leveraging AI-assisted testing for test design, automation, failure analysis, and overall software quality.

Who you are:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.
  • long-standing experience in software testing, verification, or software quality engineering, including experience taking technical ownership of complex testing activities.
  • Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, including functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and risk-based testing, with experience defining test strategies and release-readiness criteria.
  • Experience in requirements analysis, test scenario and test case design, requirements-to-test traceability, software integration, and end-to-end testing, including troubleshooting issues across software components and interfaces.
  • Strong experience in defect management, root-cause analysis, and quality risk assessment, using tools such as Azure DevOps, ALM, or equivalent.

Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Cytiva we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Cytiva can provide.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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