What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineer, R&D Software Quality position at Clario?
Overview
The Engineer, R&D Software Quality will have responsibility for planning, development, and implementation of automated testing solutions to benefit project specific software development efforts. Solutions shall be based on assessment of software function and performance requirements, definition of design specifications, development of major routines and utility programs, resolution of software compatibility and interface problems and analysis of the system's architecture.
Clario. The Best of ERT & Bioclinica!
Clario delivers the leading endpoint technology solutions for clinical trials. Through experience gained from over 19,000 clinical trials delivered in support of 870 regulatory approvals, Clario fuses scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform to enable pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device partners to transform lives. Through Trial Anywhere™, Clario has mastered the ability to generate rich evidence across all trial models: decentralized, hybrid and site-based clinical trials. With 30 facilities in nine countries across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, Clario’s global team of science, technology and operational experts has been delivering the richest clinical evidence for nearly 50 years.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a test designer and contributor in a project quality team
- Review Project Requirement documents and Functional Specifications, define test strategy, and scope test effort as part of a regular planning cycle
- Write detailed test plans for assigned features to include manual and automated tests
- Define test strategy for reusable project based components
- Help set the direction, process, and general test methodology for parallel development of the software and automated test suite
- Assist other members of the team with technical problems in test environments and script development
- Work with off-shore quality teams to ensure compliance with test plans and test cases
- Develop and maintain automated scripts and libraries for testing the Clario product suite
- Develop and maintain innovative, repeatable QA test plans based on functional requirements, use cases, user interface designs, system design documents and domain knowledge
- Work with QA team members, software developers and system and database administrators to trouble-shoot test failures in the various test environments
- This may include trouble-shooting database issues using SQL queries, reviewing web server and application server logs, etc.
- Some degree of creativity and latitude is required
- Provide Technical Leadership
The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description represent the major responsibilities of the position. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned, as required. Clario reserves the right to amend or change this job description to meet the needs of Clario. This job description and any attachments do not constitute or represent a contract.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3 years of software quality assurance and/or equivalent experience
- 3 years of automated end-to-end testing of software product, including web application testing, and testing web services
- 3 years of experience with at least one programming language, such as Java, JavaScript, C , C#, Python is essential
- Experience developing automated frameworks using Selenium, SOAPUI, Cucumber, Gherkin, Protractor, Postman, Robot Framework
- Experience with mobile frameworks such as Appium or Selendroid a big plus.
- Experience/knowledge with Agile Software Development methodologies
- Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, NoSQL/Mongo
- Familiarity with load/performance testing
- Experience testing handheld devices with hardware and software components
- Experience testing web-based software applications
- Experience testing software for clinical trials or the pharmaceutical industry
- Software testing experience in a regulated environment (ISO 9001, FDA 21 CFR Part 11)
- Working knowledge of software tools such as a GitLab, AccuRev, JIRA,or Rally
- Experience using performance tools such as a JMeter, SOASTA, Gatling, Load Runner, SilkPerformer are prefered
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