Staff Software Test Engineer - LIMS

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health Oncology Platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.

Job Description

Guardant Health is looking for an energetic and passionate Staff Software Engineer to join its growing Software Quality Engineering team. This team is responsible for delivering the product functionality needed to support the laboratory workflow for several of its market leading cancer diagnostic tests as well as integration with various oncology systems.

An Ideal candidate would have experience working in a regulated environment with thorough knowledge of Quality Engineering best practices and technical expertise to deliver software products meeting the business needs in an efficient and fast paced environment. This role requires someone who is adept at understanding system architecture, design, implementation to succinctly develop tailored test strategy and deliver quality software products meeting regulatory standards. The candidate should have the aptitude to work on parallel projects with overlapping schedules, quickly learn new technologies, demonstrate teamwork and technical leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

●      Primary role as a functional tester with potential for some aspects of automation

●      Provide coaching to other team members for designing test strategies and test cases

●      Participate in the Agile scrum team and work on Software Quality Engineering tasks

●      Design and execute test coverage for various functional and integration aspects of the Enterprise Lab Information Management System (LabVantage)

●      Partner with software development teams and stakeholders to ensure Company Lab Information Management System of highly complex genetic data meet or exceed our quality standards

●      Apply appropriate test methodologies including but not limited to writing test plans, test cases, and execution of test scripts within the sprint schedule

●      Create test cases in Jama and execute them to support scheduled releases

●      Troubleshoot issues identified during testing and report defects; able to distinguish between user error and application anomalies

●      Perform System Integration testing at the end of functional sprints prior to product release

●      Provide clear and concise feedback on defects, usability, and other test findings/results

●      Identify and advocate testing standards and processes as needed within the team

●      Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and robust execution of testing as part of a regular release schedule

●      Execute complex testing scenarios, perform in-depth statistical analysis, and interpret results independently

●      Establish cross-functional relationships across business and technical leads, architects, and product owners to ensure alignment with business goals and enterprise-level architectural standards

●      Apply QE standards, best practices, and principles to develop quality plans that deliver optimal outcomes across multiple products

●      Deliver test documentation to support software development for medical devices in compliance with FDA, CE mark, IEC 62304, PMDA and ISO 13485 standards

Qualifications

●      12+ years of hands-on testing experience in Service Oriented Architecture environment using COTS/SaaS solutions with API led integrations

●      8+ years of experience in test preparation activities within an Agile Development Process – Test Design, Test scripting, Test Data creation

●      6+ years of experience in testing integrations in a hybrid environment leveraging XML/JSON message formats

●      6+ years of experience using databases like Postgres, Oracle, MSSQL Server or MongoDB

●      6+ years of API test tools like Postman, Fiddler, SOAPUI required

●      Proven ability to adapt to new technologies and design test strategies

●      Extensive experience in good testing practices and methodologies

●      Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including strong ability to ide