Principal Quality Engineer

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Impact Healthcare:

Roche Sequencing is not only changing science, but we are changing lives. Our software teams are laying the groundwork for the future by developing powerful bioinformatics algorithms, data analysis tools, and software/systems infrastructures so researchers and clinicians can make better health decisions faster. The path to curing cancer lies in ones and zeros as we work with next-generation genomic sequencing, a new frontier. The complexity and sheer size of the data in the life sciences will make astronomical data problems look modest.

Do you want to develop software products that scientists and others in the life sciences will use to diagnose, find treatments, and eventually beat diseases like cancer? Our team builds highly scalable, reliable software and secure systems for better diagnostics. Come join us!

Make a Big Difference:

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will develop the test plans, verification strategies, traceability and test infrastructure and automated tests for Roche Sequencing products. You will test cutting-edge, distributed, scale-out Next-Generation Sequencing data analysis software to ensure the highest possible software quality for gene sequencing research and disease diagnostics.

Who you are:

When you join us, you will have meaningful work developing an innovative technology that saves and improves lives around the world. As you collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry, you will make a huge difference! Our team is collaborative and fast-paced.

Responsibilities:

• Software Development: propose and evaluate design options, review code, analyze requirements, implement high quality code and tests in areas of web APIs, database, and Cloud-components, as well as analysis pipeline execution; keeping end user needs in mind.

• Team work: work closely with architects, product managers, and other development leads and teams across sites to drive projects forward with high quality code, scalable and maintainable components, and delivering excellence on schedule.

• Process & Operations: ensure test automation and regulatory compliance are embedded into software development practices and apply Lean principles in activities you participate in for the continuous improvement of how our teams function and the quality of the products we build.

• Participate and lead in all aspects of quality testing and release of Roche’s analytics software products by working with distributed systems, backend testing, UI testing, database testing

• Write test plans, test cases, conduct code reviews

• Technically guide other test engineers and provide sound technical solutions, particularly efficient and effective test automation

• Implement and maintain an end-to-end automation test framework for running UI integration tests and quality dashboards using various tools: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit

• Implement automated API testing using tools such as REST Assured or SOAP UI

• Work closely with the development team to improve unit test coverage, frameworks and productivity tools

• Participate in requirements, architecture, and design specification reviews

• Use defect management tools such as JIRA

• Use the GIT source code management system and the Jenkins Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tool

• Develop Load and Performance tests using tools such as JMeter

• Develop tests for DNA Analytics tools

Requirements:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent field

• 5+ years of direct related experience in Software Quality Assurance and testing with proficiency in Behavioral + Test-Driven Development principles or equivalent combination of education and experience to perform at this level

• Experience defining and executing on testing strategy and approach 

• Experience technically leading the test team on testing approach and automation solutions

• Proficiency in at least one of these languages: Java (preferred), JavaScript/TypeScript, Python/Ruby, and Bash

• Comfortable with: AWS, and Linux Shell

• Experience with various QA and support related tools such as Selenium, Maven, TestNG/JUnit, Cucumber, Protractor, Jenkins

• Experience with creating automated tests for API, UI and database layers

• Experience with developing, running and analyzing load and performance tests

• Mastery of English

Nice to have:

• Experience in creating from scratch, maintaining and improving comprehensive test automation framework covering all major testing areas - UI, API, database, middleware 

• Leadership, mentoring and cross-team communication and effort coordination experience

• Bioinformatics experience of any kind 

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