Software Test Engineer (Automation and Manual) – (
Job Ref: 25/SFTT)Randox are a world leader in diagnostics for clinical healthcare, toxicology and food security and are looking for Software Test Engineers to join our Research and Development team in Dungloe, County Donegal.
The successful candidate will have the unique opportunity to work on developing innovative and pioneering products at the cutting edge of medical device research & development.
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Working as part of a team of software testers, you will gain an understanding of how each Randox analyser works by operating them in accordance with user and software specifications.
Using this knowledge, you will develop and execute tests to ensure the analyser software performs correctly to specification under normal, abnormal and failure induced operating conditions.
You will participate in multi-disciplinary meetings with software developers, hardware engineers, scientists, and project managers to ensure the software test suite is appropriate and complete to the high-quality standards necessary for certification of medical device software.
You will also test standalone software applications related to analysers.
Software testing may involve both manual testing and automated testing methods.
Location:
Randox Teoranta, Meenmore, Dungloe, County Donegal, F94 TV06.
Hybrid option is available with 1 day working from home per week.
Contract Offered:
Full-time, Permanent Working Hours / Shifts: 40 hours per week, with flexibility of 4 x 10 hour days, 5 x 8 hour days and 4 x 9 hour days with 4 hours on a Friday.
What does the Software Test Engineer role involve?
This is an extremely varied role that will require you to develop a varied skillset, including:
* Understand operating scenarios on a range of Randox analysers.
* Plan testing of different Randox diagnostic analysers and software applications.
* Design, document, and execute both manual and automated test scripts as appropriate for the analyser.
* Identify and record software defects within a problem-tracking system.
* Provide software test review comments on various software life-cycle documents.
* Ensure systems are tested to a high-quality standard.
* Play a major role to improve quality, functionality, reliability and usability of products.
* Mentor junior staff members.
Who can apply?
Essential criteria:
* A Degree/Higher qualification in a STEM related discipline with 2+ years software testing experience
* Ability to work independently, in a structured way, using your initiative to remove blockers.
* Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to prioritise work in a logical manner.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
* Desire to learn and explore new technologies.
Desirable:
* Experience using an issue reporting tool.
* Experience in automated testing.
(Appium, Selenium or Ranorex)
* Familiarity with two of the following programming languages: C#, Python, C and JAVA