Engineer II – R&D Test Engineering

Location: Sparks, MD • Duration: 6 months • Hours: 40/week (1st shift) • Hybrid onsite/remote (local candidate) • Temporary position

About the role

Client Diagnostics Systems in Sparks, MD is a division of Client’s Life Sciences Organization. R&D Engineering is responsible for the design and development of world-class in-vitro diagnostics instruments, lab automation systems, and informatics solutions. The Test Engineering team supports R&D’s product development and maintenance by performing verification and validation to test and qualify products and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other project teams to understand and derive specifications.
• Transform product, system, and software-level requirements/specifications into test protocols and test cases for functional, non-functional, and risk-based tests.
• Execute planned test cases to discover functional and non-functional system and software anomalies with risk impacts.
• Provide detailed descriptions of discovered anomalies to obtain resolutions from software, system, electrical, and mechanical engineering teams.
• Support software, systems, and engineering teams with troubleshooting, characterization, and validation activities for prototypes, breadboards, and sub-systems.
• Support the service/training organization in troubleshooting customer complaints.
• Provide testing support for sustaining activities.
• Engage in continuous improvement to enhance test automation, test architecture, and test leadership skills.

Requirements

• Four-year undergraduate degree, preferably in engineering or science.
• 2–5 years of software/system testing experience, preferably in an embedded/hardware environment with automated tests.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work in a cross-functional team and complete testing tasks per project and quality needs and timelines.
• Proven and creative test skills with attention to detail; ability to think out-of-the-box to discover product anomalies and improve test efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Familiarity with industry-standard software and system development cycles, including understanding specifications and requirements to create test protocols and test cases for optimal test coverage and execution speed.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to describe test scenarios, deviations, non-compliances, and risks technically and professionally.
• Familiarity with defect tracking tools, requirement management, and test management tools such as TFS, HP ALM (Quality Center), or Cognition Cockpit.

Desired Skills

• 1–2 years of experience automating user interfaces in Microsoft Windows or embedded Windows environments using tools such as Tricentis Tosca, QTP, CodedUI, AutoIT, Selenium, or AngularJS.
• Ability to create simple SQL scripts and perform API validations in C#, C++, or JavaScript environments.
• Familiarity with FDA regulations for medical instruments, ISO 14971, and IEC 62304 standards.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Design for Six Sigma.