Sr Test Automation Engineer

Join our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific and help make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer through innovative software solutions. As a Sr Test Automation Engineer, you'll work on next-generation cloud-based architectures and platforms, ensuring the quality and reliability of our scientific software products. You'll collaborate with teams to design, develop, and maintain comprehensive test automation frameworks while driving adoption of best practices across the organization. This role offers opportunities to work with advanced technologies in cloud computing, laboratory automation, and scientific instrumentation, directly impacting research and healthcare outcomes worldwide., * Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable automated test frameworks across UI, API, and performance layers.

• Build and execute API, UI, and performance tests using automation frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Rest Assured, or JMeter.

• Apply BDD (e.g., Cucumber) or TDD approaches with maintainable and reusable test design patterns

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast and reliable feedback

• Improve test reliability by reducing flakiness and optimizing execution time

• Enable parallel test execution and environment scalability

• Ensure end-to-end test coverage by creating and maintaining comprehensive test cases, test plans, and test scripts.

• Perform exploratory and risk-based testing to uncover complex defects and conduct root cause analysis and deep debugging of failures and defects

• Analyze logs, data, and system behavior to identify hidden quality risks

• Validate end-to-end workflows and complex integrations

• Identify, document, and track defects using JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

• Collaborate with developers to improve testability and code quality

• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable automation code following engineering best practices

• Perform database validation using SQL/NoSQL

• Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

• Experience 8+ years of experience in software testing, test automation, and QA processes.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Typescript, JavaScript, or C#

• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Appium)

• Experience with API testing (REST Assured, Postman, etc.)

• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices

• Proficiency in database testing using SQL queries.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)

Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off, The salary range estimated for this position based in Indiana is $93,800.00-$140,675.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. With $1.4 billion invested annually in R&D, our collaborative and diverse teams have the resources they need to drive new discoveries and do cutting-edge research and develop important applications and tools that help millions of lives around the world.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with an annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000+ colleagues deliver an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.