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# Staff Engineer, Software Test

- **Company:** Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
- **Location:** South San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $125,000 - $166,700
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, JIRA, Code Coverage, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, System Testing, Test Data, Strategies of Testing, Web Applications, Software Verification, Hp Alm, Integration Tests, Bug Reporting, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c3adda5c-c1d4-4e05-b222-4c28991d5e87

## About the Role

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field of study., * Bachelors degree and 8+ years of Software testing experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years Software testing experience.

 * Solid understanding of software development life cycle and software testing life cycle.
 * Good understanding of testing methodologies, regression, sanity, performance, feature verification testing
 * Good understanding of software testing best-practices.
 * Experience in writing test plans, test cases, simulating test data for software verification of medical devices.
 * Experience in new product development from product realization to product launch
 * Prior experience in Agile software development methodology
 * Utilized HP ALM and Jira,
 * Strong expertise in Linux/Unix operating system

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

 * Previous experience testing embedded instrument control software
 * Self-motivation, problem solving ability, organizational skills, thoughtful and detail-oriented
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills
 * Driven to deliver quality results on time and in a highly ethical and professional manner

## Description

* Define the scope of testing within the context of each software release for web application and embedded instrument control software
 * Participate in writings EPICs and User Stories in JIRA by gathering the requirements from Product Management, System Engineering, Molecular Biology, global support teams.
 * Writing test plans which includes testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules. Estimating the testing efforts
 * Plan, deploy and manage the testing activities for sanity, regression, system testing, integration testing, installation testing of the Embedded instrument control software and web application software during the entire development and verification stages.
 * Write and review test cases, test strategy, test data, reports, and trace matrices, ensuring design compliance and test coverage
 * Generate and maintain Test Summary Reports, bug reports, traceability matrix, risk analysis.
 * Initiate and support product quality improvements.