Sr Test Automation Engineer

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a company dedicated to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer through innovative software solutions. As a Sr Test Automation Engineer, you'll be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of scientific software products by designing and maintaining test automation frameworks and collaborating with teams to adopt best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable automated test frameworks across UI, API, and performance layers
• Build and execute API, UI, and performance tests using automation frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Rest Assured, or JMeter
• Apply BDD (e.g., Cucumber) or TDD approaches with maintainable and reusable test design patterns
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast and reliable feedback
• Improve test reliability by reducing flakiness and optimizing execution time
• Enable parallel test execution and environment scalability
• Ensure end-to-end test coverage by creating and maintaining comprehensive test cases, test plans, and test scripts
• Perform exploratory and risk-based testing to uncover complex defects and conduct root cause analysis and deep debugging of failures and defects
• Analyze logs, data, and system behavior to identify hidden quality risks
• Validate end-to-end workflows and complex integrations
• Identify, document, and track defects using JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
• Collaborate with developers to improve testability and code quality
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable automation code following engineering best practices
• Perform database validation using SQL/NoSQL

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience 8+ years of experience in software testing, test automation, and QA processes
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Typescript, JavaScript, or C#
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Appium)
• Experience with API testing (REST Assured, Postman, etc.)
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices
• Proficiency in database testing using SQL queries
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)