Senior Software Verification Tester

About the position

It is not every day that you can say the software you helped develop will save hundreds or thousands of lives per year, but at bioMérieux, we put innovation to work in life-saving diagnostic devices deployed across the world. With engineering centers in St. Louis, France, and Italy, our System Development team collaborates globally to build products that ensure patient health and consumer safety. From antibiotic susceptibility testing to organism identification with mass spectrometry, bioMérieux offers challenging opportunities in a science-based domain with a public health focus. If you're passionate about solving real-world problems, you'll find a home in our team of expert software developers, engineers, and microbiologists. As a member of a collaborative, cross-functional software-development team, the Software Verification Tester will design and execute manual and automated software-verification tests, detect and analyze defect data, and generate/maintain documentation of all test efforts for software used by internal R&D departments who are responsible for creating innovative in vitro diagnostic solutions. This position is well suited for someone with a microbiology and/or clinical background.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with microbiology experts, project leads, software business analysts and software developers to analyze, plan, design, and document test scenarios.
• Design, develop, review and approve effective test cases necessary to provide risk-based coverage of user requirements, specifications, and user stories that meet the test plan.
• Execute and document software verification results for both manual and automated test cases.
• Support verification of selected anomaly fixes, including assisting with validation-testing activities and field-related support.
• Advise/coach junior members of the team.
• Assist with task estimation and planning of work as needed.
• Assist with development and summary of key testing-metrics.
• Focus on continuous improvement of test processes and software quality.
• Stay informed on industry trends in software testing; attend test-related conferences as directed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, microbiology or related scientific or engineering discipline (e.g. Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT), Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS), Biology, Biomedical Engineering, etc.) or similar disciplines, and/or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional software-testing experience.
• Experience working in an Agile software-development environment.
• Fundamental knowledge of software quality, testing methodologies, and modern test-automation.
• Proven ability to detect and analyze software defects and inconsistencies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Ability to create clear and concise documentation.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Capacity to think critically and apply that to problem-solving.
• Good time-management skills.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Effective work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
• Ability to advise / coach junior members of the team.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Assist with efforts to drive continuous improvement of test processes and software quality.
• Support efforts in creating, revising, and/or maintaining test-related SOPs and guidelines (as directed).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in an ISO/FDA regulated environment as a member of a product-development organization (medical-device or biotech industry).
• Experience in the use and operation of the bioMérieux products (VITEK, VirtuO, VITEK MS, etc.) in a clinical environment.
• Significant experience using modern automated-testing tools and test-automation frameworks, especially Playwright, Gherkin/Cucumber, Robot Framework, or Selenium/Protractor.
• Experience in analyzing use cases & user stories to determine suitability for automation.
• Ability to maintain existing automation; that is, troubleshoot and fix errors in scripts developed by others.
• Experience writing code in Java, JavaScript, C++, C#/.NET, Python, or another object-oriented language.