Quality Test Engineering Intern

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter

Baxter offers a structured internship experience that provides hands-on exposure to quality engineering activities within an R&D environment. This role is designed to reflect the responsibilities of a full-time Quality Engineering position and provides opportunities to contribute to verification, validation, and continuous improvement efforts.

As a Quality Engineering (Test) Intern, you will work closely with R&D and cross-functional partners to support design verification activities, execute test strategies, and ensure product quality throughout the development lifecycle.

This internship requires the candidate to be local to the Raleigh, NC office - 1501 Nowell Rd Raleigh, NC 27607.

What you'll be doing

• Review design inputs and requirements for accuracy, completeness, clarity, and testability.
• Develop, document, and execute component, integration, and system-level test cases.
• Support verification and validation activities in alignment with quality and project requirements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and sprint reviews.
• Contribute to regression testing strategies and assist in defining test coverage.
• Identify, document, and retest defects using approved defect tracking tools.
• Set up, maintain, and manage test environments, tools, and test data.
• Provide effort estimates for assigned testing activities.
• Support test automation initiatives, including scripting, tooling, or framework enhancements, based on experience.
• Perform additional testing or quality-related tasks as required to support project objectives.

What you'll bring

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile development practices.
• Knowledge of manual testing methodologies and verification techniques.
• Exposure to scripting or programming languages such as C#, Python, or JavaScript (preferred).
• Familiarity with test automation concepts or frameworks (preferred).
• Experience or exposure to tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar systems (preferred).

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all our employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end, this position has a pay rate of $26.00 an hour.

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discou