Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works onsite in our Sunnyvale, CA or Sylmar CA locations in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

The Software Quality Engineer II is responsible for Software Quality relative to the design and development of company products, software reliability, developing and maintaining processes and procedures, and assuring adherence to the software development lifecycle across Abbott.  Responsible for maintaining a strong collaborative partnership with cross-functional team members that facilitates organizational success by protecting patient/user safety and meeting business needs.

What You’ll Work On

• Execute and support on-time completion of Quality Engineering deliverables: test plans (manual an automated), test scripts (manual and automated), test reports

• Manage test planning and execution efforts by a combined, team of testers located onsite and/or offshore

• Design and develop test automation frameworks, as needed

• Gain familiarity with testing methodology, processes, tools, templates, environment, and work with cross functional teams to complete tasks assigned

• Explain the testing methodology, processes, tools, templates, environment, and concepts to the team members, and cross-functional teams at large

• Create and manage testing schedule and work plan

• Coordinate test planning efforts

• Support on-time execution of Quality Plans

• Train to development and documentation of standard operating procedures, specifications and test procedures

• Design Verification and Validation test planning & execution, including active cross-functional root-cause analysis investigation & resolution activities (using manual test cases, or developing test automation scripts)

• Participate in reviews for System and Software requirements, Software and Firmware design, and code inspection, using static testing and TDD practices

• Reviews test protocols and test results provided by another functional group.

• Support product Risk Management activities

• Bring forth ideas and implement quality tools that improve the software design reviews.

• Bring forth ideas and implement testing tools that improve the software testing lifecycle.

• Ensure DHF content completion, integrity, and regulatory & standards compliance; collaboratively communicating & resolving gaps

• Support internal & external audit and related responses

• Support the establishment of objective, measurable and verifiable customer and product requirements

• Complete Document Change Request Reviews in a timely and objective manner

• Additional duties may be identified by functional management based on the current project/business objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in Computer science, software engineering or a closely related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Minimum of 2-5+ years of combined experience in software development, web-based, client-server, and/or embedded systems applications

• Minimum 2-5+ years of combined experience in software testing and verification/validation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing automation frameworks and scripts using Selenium, and/or Appium, UFT, etc.

• Programming experience in C/C#/Visual Studio/Java, Scripting Language such as Python, Ruby, Perl

• Experience with software configuration, and issue tracking tools such as GIT, Jira, Subversion, ClearQuest, Doors, Bugzilla.

• Experience using overall test management tools such as Microfocus ALM, Zephyr, TestComplete.

• Experience in code review/static analysis tool(s) to aide code review such as Code Collaborator, Coverity, Parasoft DT

• Experience as team-member in Agile SDLC projects/programs

  knowledge of various types of SDLC’s and TLC’s (V-Model, Iterative, Agile/Scrum, etc.)

• Working experience in behavior-driven testing and scripting using cucumber or behave.

• Experience in automated test execution and coordination, using Selenium and Appium.

• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.

• Working experience in mobile test automation tools (e.g. Perfecto, MobileLabs)

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