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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Lake Forest, IL (in Conway Park) currently has an opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in Test. This position is open with our AlinIQ informatics products in Core Diagnostics Division.

The Software Engineer in Test (SET) is responsible for leading testing efforts in automation, design, development, execution, review, and reporting of testing for our AlinIQ informatics products in Core Diagnostics. This position will lead the build out and maintenance of our automation tools, test scripts, and provide guidance to other test engineers.

What You’ll Work On

• The SET will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for agile product research and development teams in automation practices.

• Design test cases, script, and automate test cases for test-driven development and continuous testing for server, web, cloud, and mobile informatics products in collaboration with scrum-based cross-functional design and development teams

• Design and perform manual test cases and informal testing

• Design and maintain test automation framework

• Identify and perform test case and test case run analysis to determine adequacy of testing, including coverage, boundary, and regression analysis

• Understand the architecture, hosting infrastructure, interaction with dependency application and complete feature workflow to assess the risks around integration points before developing great test cases

• Provide input to systems and applications developers on testing procedures and requirements, schedules, or potential problems

• Provide test and automation leadership to testing team, including peer testing automation review, definition of criteria for testing, analyzing test results, and presenting results to developers and other stakeholders

• Help organize QA activities for the project and delivery of release documentation in conformance with regulatory, security, and privacy standards for all types of testing such as functional, performance, and regression

• Accountable for estimating, establishing commitments, and meeting incremental deliverables (software builds) according to plans, practices, and quality requirements

• Able to apply the latest software design and development tools and techniques as required

• Position represents test engineering throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.

• Position contributes to both the product development and the SDLC Agile process.

• Position includes mentoring junior members of the team and ensuring the correct procedures and processes are being followed for both software quality and compliance.

• Review code diff analysis and develop a robust regression test strategy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Minimum of 5 years relevant experience with 2 years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance in a regulated industry.

• Experience with Microsoft Windows applications

• Experience with automated testing and simulator tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Understand how to Run protocols, IMS manual proficiency, inventory testing.

• Understand c# and a Microsoft testing environment.

• Understand manual and automated testing.

• Willingness to take a proficiency test to demonstrate testing skills.

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://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.

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The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.