Sr Test Automation Engineer

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job 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, andmaintainscalable 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 andoptimizingexecution time

• Enable parallel test execution andenvironmentscalability

• 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 defectsand conductroot cause analysis and deep debugging of failures and defects

• Analyze logs, data, and system behavior toidentifyhidden 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 ormaster'sdegree incomputer science, Engineering, or related field.

• Experience 8+ years of experience in software testing, test automation, and QA processes.

• Proficiencyin programming languages such as Java, Typescript, JavaScript, or C#

• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Appium)

• Experience with API testing (REST Assured, Postman, etc.)

• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices

• Proficiencyin database testing using SQL queries.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Indiana is $93,800.00–$140,675.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.