Test Automation Engineer  

The Perfect Candidate:

While we are looking for a strong technical foundation, the ideal candidate is someone who views software quality as a strategic advantage, not just a final checkpoint. You are likely our perfect match if:

● You Think Like a Developer: You don't just "test" code; you understand how it's built. You write clean, maintainable, and dry (Don't Repeat Yourself) automation code that your peers are proud to review.
● You Are a "Shift-Left" Advocate: You are uncomfortable waiting until the end of a sprint to test. You enjoy collaborating with Product and Dev teams early on to define testable requirements and catch logic gaps before a single line of code is written.
● You Despise Flakiness: You understand that an unreliable automated test suite is worse than no automated test suite at all. You are obsessed with stability and take pride in building "green" pipelines that the team actually trusts.
● You are a Tooling Polyglot: You aren't married to a single framework. Whether it's Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress, you choose the right tool for the job based on the project's needs rather than personal habits.
● You Bridge the Gap: You can translate complex technical bugs into business risks for stakeholders, and turn high-level business requirements into rigorous technical test cases.
● You are a Force Multiplier: You don't work in a silo. You enjoy mentoring manual QA testers and helping developers take ownership of their own unit and integration tests.

General Information:
● Start Date: asap
● Planned Duration of Employment: 1 year
● Extension (for temporary contracts): very likely
● Workplace: Rotkreuz
● Workload: 100%
● Home Office: On Request, Presence Factor over 80%
● Travel: No

Tasks & Responsibilities:

● Quality Assurance for High-Tech: Development and implementation of automated test strategies for a complex overall system in molecular diagnostics.
● BDD Methodology: Active application of Behavior-Driven Development to translate requirements into executable specifications (e.g., using Cucumber).
● Development of Test Environments: Construction and maintenance of test frameworks using tools similar to Selenium, Appium, or SpecFlow, supplemented by specific libraries for controlling laboratory robots.
● Robotics Integration: Evaluation and integration of commercial robot arms (e.g., Cobots) as well as participation in the development of internal robotics tools to simulate user interactions on the device (e.g., pipetting, loading cartridges).
● ALM & Traceability: Use of ALM tools such as Codebeamer to manage requirements and test cases and to ensure traceability.
● CI/CD Integration: Responsibility for automated quality assurance within our DevOps pipelines (e.g., GitHub and Azure DevOps (ADO)).
● End-to-End Validation: Ensuring data integrity from the barcode scan of the patient sample to the final analysis of the PCR result.
● Compliance & Documentation: Supporting the creation of test plans, protocols, and reports in accordance with ISO 13485 and other relevant regulatory standards for medical devices.

Must Haves:

● Education: Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Medical Technology, or a comparable qualification.
● Min. 5 years of experience in software development
● Min. 5 years of experience in development of automated test strategies and implementation of corresponding test frameworks
● Experienced Programmer: You have sound experience in software development and master clean coding principles.
● Automation & BDD Expert: Proficient in using tools such as Selenium, with desired knowledge of BDD tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow.
● ALM Know-how: Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools, ideally Codebeamer, is a major advantage.
● DevOps & CI/CD: Proficient in handling Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in GitHub or Azure DevOps.
● Analytical Talent: Ability to familiarize yourself with the logic of complex diagnostic systems.

Nice to Haves:

● Bonus Skill - Rust: Knowledge of Rust is a strong plus, as we value performance and type safety.
● Bonus Skill - Robotics Integration: Experience in controlling actuators/sensors or integrating robots into test procedures. Knowledge of Standard in Laboratory Automation (SiLA).