Test Automation Engineer
645-605-078-00000 Thermo Services Philippines Corp.
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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
DESCRIPTION:
Join our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where you'll help develop and test software for scientific instruments and laboratory solutions. As a Software Test Engineer III, you'll ensure the quality and reliability of our software products through comprehensive testing strategies. Working in an adaptable environment, you'll collaborate with teams to validate software for mass spectrometers, electron microscopes, and other analytical instruments that help make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
You'll participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through final release. Your role includes designing and executing test plans, automating test procedures, documenting defects, and verifying resolutions. You'll work closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure our software meets the highest quality standards while supporting continuous improvement in our testing processes.
Key Responsibilities:
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 pattern
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.
Write clean, maintainable, and scalable automation code following engineering best practices
Perform database validation using SQL/NoSQL
Ability to collaborate effectively with onsite teams and stakeholders across time zones
Strong communication skills for regular interaction with the on-site manager and local team
Participate in overlapping working hours to support real-time collaboration with the onsite team
Ensure strong ownership and accountability while working independently in an offshore setup
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
Experience 6+ 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)
Experience integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines
Summary
Develop, automate, and maintain test frameworks and scripts for scientific instruments software
Job title
Test Automation Engineer
Experience level
6+ years
Minimum experience
6+ years exp
Industry
healthcare
Location requirements
onsite in Bangalore, India, no remote work allowed
Salary
Not specified
Visa sponsorship
H-1B sponsor history
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India