Abbott Hiring for Software Test Engineer III at Charlottesville, Virginia Full Time

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit – an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position of Software Test Engineer III is within our Abbott Rapid Diagnostics Informatics, Inc. unit located at Charlottesville, VA. This role will participate in feature definition, requirement verification, and testing methodologies as part of a dynamic Agile team. This individual will contribute as part of team to promote a culture of quality to resolve product issues before field release. The ideal candidate will value culture as much as technical skill.

What You’ll Work On

• Proactively gain proficiency as an expert user of team’s software products to understand users’ experience and quality expectations

• Interact with medical devices in the execution of manual tests

• Translate feature requirements into testable user stories

• Adhere to regulatory standards associated with verification of medical systems

• Support investigation of reported field issues to identify root cause

• Provide test review feedback to foster testing best practices within the team

• Mentor team members to advance test process and technical skills

• Contribute to both manual and automated testing effort

• Create automated testware and refactor existing testware to exercise product behaviors while managing test code maintainability and execution efficiency

• Create and maintain source code for internally developed testing tools

• Assess features to identify testing technical challenges, priorities, and risks

• Develop new strategies for manual and automated testing to optimize test coverage

• Promote new technologies and testing practices within the team

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability as a self-learner

• Proficient with object-oriented programming

• BS degree in technical discipline and 7 years of relevant technical experience

• 5 years of software test automation experience

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and independently

Preferred Qualifications

• ASTQB certification

• Experience with Agile software development lifecycle

• Capable crafting relational database scripts (SQL or equivalent)

• Familiarity with software version control (Git or equivalent)

• Experience with platform virtualization environments (ex. Azure or VMware)

• Capable with XML, JSON, HTML, and CSS

• Experience utilizing Agile development tools for project management and bug tracking (ex. TFS, Jira, or Rally)

• Experience testing RESTful API and competent with API testing tools (ex. Postman and Swagger)

• Background with healthcare industry and associated technologies (ex. HL7 communication)

• Experienced with industry standard processes for test design and test management

• Proficient with object-oriented programming language (C# preferred)

• Capable with test automation frameworks (xunit preferred)

• Experience with automated UI testing technologies (Selenium, Appium)

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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Divisional Information

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

The base pay for this position is $80,700.00 – $161,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]