Senior Software Test Engineer

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Overview

Waters is looking for a Senior Software Test Engineer!

You will join the Biologics software engineering group, you will join an agile development team and help ensure the high standard of software our customers need, whether it's developing COVID tests and vaccines, helping scientists detect cancer, ensuring food safety or helping scientists develop biodegradable plastics - our work has a real benefit to the world!

Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively as part of a cross-discipline agile team to incrementally deliver software.
• Understanding customer requirements and creating test cases from those requirements.
• Defining the most appropriate test approach for the project or task.
• Engage in automation testing, contributing to the definition of an executable specification, written in Gherkin and working with the team on the implementation.
• Discuss overall risks and trends.
• Performing manual/exploratory tests on early-stage code.
• Performing usability, functional, performance, exploratory and acceptance testing as the situation and product demands.
• Provide testing support to internal and external users.

Qualifications

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Considerable experience in software testing.
• Experience of planning, estimating and scheduling of testing activities.
• Are keen and quick to learn new things, both in terms of testing techniques and the science behind our software.
• Enjoy engaging with others to understand and tackle problems.
• Feel comfortable talking to stakeholders to capture requirements, feedback and track down bugs.
• Share our ambition to continually improve and develop phenomenal products.

We're also interested in candidates:

• With a degree (B.Sc, M.Sc. or Ph.D.) in a science related discipline.
• With test automation experience, including experience of Test Automation tools and techniques (e.g. Selenium, Specflow, SoapUI, etc.).

Don't be put off if you don't feel you match all of the qualities and qualifications listed above; we don't expect a complete match. Mostly, we're looking for a talented software test engineer with a passion for making good products.

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.