Sr Test Automation Engineer
Thermo Fisher ScientificAbout the role
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
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 and help make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer through innovative software solutions. As a Sr Test Automation Engineer, you'll work on next-generation cloud-based architectures and platforms, ensuring the quality and reliability of our scientific software products. You'll collaborate with teams to design, develop, and maintain comprehensive test automation frameworks while driving adoption of best practices across the organization. This role offers opportunities to work with advanced technologies in cloud computing, laboratory automation, and scientific instrumentation, directly impacting research and healthcare outcomes worldwide.
Location: Morrisville, NC. Relocation assistance is NOT provided.
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 patterns
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.
Collaborate with developers to improve testability and code quality
Write clean, maintainable, and scalable automation code following engineering best practices
Perform database validation using SQL/NoSQL
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
Experience 8+ 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 framewo
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