Lead Tester

the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and more than 250 small and medium-sized pharma and BioPharma companies, CROs, CDMOs and CMOs.

IDBS is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

Do you want to work in an agile scrum team with other experienced software engineers and testers, sharing responsibility for creating high-quality enterprise software? Do you enjoy working in cloud-based technologies, helping to build next-generation, market-leading research processes and data management software?

We are currently seeking a Lead Tester to join our team in Woking, leading the testing within an agile development squad, combining both leadership with active day-to-day involvement in the work of the development team, and helping the team deliver, via a rigorous quality process, highly impacting cloud-based software as a SaaS solution.

What we'll get you doing:

• Working within an agile development squad to implement testing strategy on user stories, within the scope of a product, and helping ensure the team delivers a quality product, on schedule, and according to the departmental quality processes

• Helping to build and support the squad, and specifically those in the test function, creating and sustaining a positive team environment, mentoring team members on testing best practice

• Contributing to the squad activities, including hands-on execution of testing, both manual and automated, ensuring repeatable and verifiable test records.

• Working with Lead Testers for other development squads to identify and champion improvements in testing and delivery practices

• Proactively developing your skills, identifying areas for improvement that align with company strategy and your own career aspirations, and undertaking required training activities.

Here is what success in this role looks like:

• You will be a university graduate in computer science or a science-based subject (or similar), with proven workplace software testing experience, and ideally, hold at least an ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.

• You can identify and implement testing strategy at a product level, assessing product and project risks, and incorporating industry knowledge, allowing you to support the team to meet agreed delivery schedules.

• You will have hands-on experience of software testing, both manual and automated, and a desire to deliver high-quality software, allowing you to create thorough and repeatable test plans for new features, helping to find issues that our customers care about.

• You have tested both web and multi-tiered backend applications that follow a cloud-based distributed architecture

• You will have worked in an agile development team environment, fully contributing to team processes

• You will be an excellent communicator, capable of building and maintaining successful working relationships at all levels, presenting both technical and non-technical information.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in or knowledge of:

• testing within AWS architecture.

• testing of SQL and NoSQL databases

• scripting in a language such as Bash, Python, Scala, Go or alike

• integrating testing within a CI/CD process, i.e. Jenkins

At IDBS we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, hybrid working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement in which you can work part-time at the Company location identified above and part-time remotely from your home. Additional information about this hybrid work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for IDBS can provide.

When you join us, you'll also be joining Danaher's global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you'll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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