Staff SDET

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. Youll also have access to:

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

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors 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.

The Opportunity

At Abbott we believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active lives. Thats why were focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. Were revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. Our Diabetes divisioncurrently has an opportunity for a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test#software

What Youll Do

• Review deliverables/activities as identified in the test plans for accuracy consistency completeness and compliance. Ensure adequate test coverage for every release
  Validate automated test coverage and directly contribute code to close gaps. This role is almost entirely handson development not manual testing.

• Mentor and provide daytoday guidance to the junior members of the software test team. Review work to ensure compliance and quality
  Offer technical input when needed but your primary responsibility is writing highquality automated tests and frameworks. This is not a lead manager or oversightheavy role.

• Provide feedback and suggest improvements to the Agile SDLC process
  Identify inefficiencies and propose automationdriven improvements that accelerate development and testing.

• Strategically incorporate automated testing into the SDLC
  Drive a fully automated testing approach. Manual testing is not part of this role. UI automation is required and mobile automation experience (especially Appium) is a major advantage.

• Evaluate new tools for adoption within the organization
  Assess and recommend automation tools frameworks and libraries that improve speed reliability or maintainability.

• Develop and Optimize Automation Scripts and Frameworks
  Design code and maintain automated test frameworks using Python or another modern programming language (Java etc.). Expect to spend the majority of your day writing code building automation frameworks and creating scalable automated test suites.

• Automation of Testing Processes
  Build endtoend automated test suites across UI mobile integration and system layers. Candidates must have recent handson experience writing automated testsnot overseeing them not delegating them.

• Implement and Manage CI/CD Pipelines
  Collaborate with DevOps as needed. CI/CD familiarity is helpful but secondary to strong coding and automation engineering skills.

• Automation Solutions Customization
  Adapt automation frameworks to meet regulatory and productspecific requirements. Ensure solutions are maintainable reliable and compliant.

• Maintenance and Enhancement of Automated Systems
  Continuously improve automation frameworks and test suites. Identify opportunities to replace manual testing with automated solutions and implement them directly.

• Collaboration and Technical Leadership
  Work closely with developers and QA team members to ensure automation is deeply integrated into the development lifecycle. Provide technical insight without serving in a lead or managerial capacity.

• Technical Documentation and System Documentation
  Produce clear concise documentation for automated tests frameworks and processes. Ensure documentation meets regulatory and compliance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in a scientific technical or engineering discipline (Computer Science major preferred)
• 8 years experience in Software Testing and/or Software Quality Assurance
• 4 years experience working in a regulated industry
• 1 year experience working as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or equivalent handson automation engineering role
• Must have strong recent experience writing automated tests and building automation frameworks (not supervising not reviewing not primarily manual testing)
• Must have UI automation experience; mobile automation experience with Appium is a major plus
• Must be technically strong and have experience testing mobile applications
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical Device experience strongly preferred
• Experience in an agile development environment preferred
• Experience with embedded systems and integration testing with external systems preferred
• Cyber security medical mobile applications or cloud computing experience preferred

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