Abbott

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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.

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 student debt program and FreeU 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.

The Opportunity

• Qualified candidates must currently live in the Irving, TX area.
• Travel 10%

A senior engineering professional who independently applies advanced engineering knowledge to complete complex assignments, who provides technical guidance regarding all aspects of software test planning and execution to ensure the development of the highest quality software applications as well as compliance to regulatory and quality standards.

The position requires interaction with the software development team, project management, and senior management to communicate verification requirements and project status.

The Software Automation Test Lead will have direct responsibility for the quality oversight of software applications, including automation test framework, workstation system, the development of requirements traceability matrices, software verification plans and associated reports, and the conformance to company procedures for the software development lifecycle.

The job function includes providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to junior engineers.

What You’ll Work On

• Manage and maintain automation test framework to support software releases.
• Verify functionality of software products using systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products.
• Develop, modify, and execute software test plans and generate test reports.
• Develop, modify, and maintain software requirements and traceability matrices.
• Analyze and write test standards and procedures.
• Maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software.
• Analyze test results to ensure correct functionality, determine root causes of failures and recommend corrective action.
• Contribute to user documentation.
• Participate in technical design reviews and project status reviews.
• Consult with development engineers in resolution of problems.
• Assess build readiness based on informal data gathering, ability to differentiate the need and application of smoke, system, regression, white box, and black box testing. 
• Software testing responsibilities include executing software development life cycle activities from software requirements, design, and implementation through design verification.
• Multi-tier software integration and testing.
• Must develop software test strategies including regression analysis.
• Review code changes, discuss approach to testing and ensure change sets are testable.
• Responsible for fault isolation, troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities during software integration and testing for systems in development and on-Market.
• Demonstrate a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance with the Company’s Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s Degree with 6+ years of related experience an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Or Bachelor’s Degree 8-10 years of related experience an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Expert experience in designing and developing complex software systems.
• Demonstrated ability in providing guidance to junior team members.
• Expert knowledge in modern programming languages such as C/C++/C# or Python & agile methodologies.
• Expert level of understanding of test-driven methodologies
• Expert level of knowledge with continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD)
• Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Ability to develop & design at the feature-level.
• Expert level understanding of design patterns.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities.
• Evolves the architecture to support future requirements and defines its service level agreements (SLAs).
• Leads the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• Experience in maintaining automation framework and tools (i.e., UFT)
• Experience in agile and lean delivery concepts and methodologies, and a history of successfully applying this knowledge to deliver applications 
• Experience in working in continuous integration and deployment environment.
• Experience in working in medical device development or controlled and heavy regulated environment
• Experience in Atlassian suite – Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket and confluence
• 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

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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is

$95,000.00 – $190,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

HIAC Core Lab

LOCATION:

United States > Irving : LC-02

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

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