Senior Software Test Engineer

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Senior Software Test Engineer for Cytiva is responsible for the quality of solutions developed and deployed to customers of our suite of digital solutions.

This position is a part of the Automation, Digital, and Learning (ADL) business unit within the Biotechnology Integrated Solutions (BIS) OpCo located in Karlsruhe, Germany and will be onsite position. At Cytiva, our vision is, to advance future therapeutics from discovery to delivery.

What you will do:

• Perform testing of web applications and APIs in cloud services (AWS).

• Design and develop test automation, tools, and procedures for designated feature areas with tools including TypeScript (Jest, Vite, Testing library, Playwright), and Postman.

• Analyse business requirements and develop test plans and test cases based on business objectives. 

• Report clear, detailed, and well-documented bugs in JIRA and track through to closure.

• Support the engineering and QA teams in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis of issues.

Who you are:

• Five plus (5) years of relevant automation and manual testing experience with at least 3 years of recent automation experience.

• Clear understanding and experience with Agile Methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle and Testing process.

• Extensive experience with software development tools such as requirement tracking (Jira, Rally), defect tracking (Jira), source control (GitHub), IDE (IntelliJ IDEA).

• Programming skill in any programming language, especially Java, JavaScript/TypeScript experience.

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

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

• Applying engineering excellence through automation and process improvements.

• Troubleshooting.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Team City, Jenkins).

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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