Senior / Staff Software Engineer in Test

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of Agile scrum teams to design, implement, and test the instrument control software that powers our industry-leading DNA sequencing and genotyping devices

• Develop end to end automated integration, verification and continuous integration system

• Develop, maintain and enhance automated test framework, tools and unit tests

• Collaborate with DevOps to design and manage an automated, computational infrastructure supporting experimentation and research

• Investigate and analyze software defects

• Define, develop and document tests to uncover defects and improve product quality

• Design and code test scripts, deploying to build pipeline, monitoring results

• Participate in all aspects of our agile development process, from sprint planning to daily scrum meetings, sprint demos and code reviews

All listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional tasks and responsibilities.

Required Educational Background:

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Bioengineering or engineering related area

Desired Profile:

• At least 5 years experience in testing and supporting software for mechanical instrumentation

• Software test development experience with programming and scripting languages (C#, TypeScript, shell script preferred)

• Experience in architecting end-to-end automated test suite for API, desktop, web apps and experience with test frameworks such as pytest, Playwright, or similar

• Experience in writing verification plans, test cases, defects reports, executing & managing test cases using test cases management system and writing verification reports

• Experience with CI/CD, Continuous Testing, and related tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• Must have strong troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Must thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Experience in participating in cross-organizational or inter-company collaboration

• Experience in developing instrument software / hardware integration is a plus

• Experience in biotech and bioinformatics is a plus

• Experience in Linux Operating System is a plus

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional tasks and responsibilities.

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.