- Experience with Mass Spectrometers.
- Experience with Software Verification.
- Ability to create, maintain, and execute manual and automated test cases.
Position Overview
The candidate will leverage their past experience with Mass Spectrometers and scientific background to plan and conduct all levels of verification against our software products within an agile team of designers and developers. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the products meet defined exit criteria and that our development practices are followed. The ideal candidate is an individual who is passionate about product development and quality, always searching for ways to ferret out critical issues that most others would not consider. The candidate will be a confident and self-motivated individual who is unafraid to use their extensive scientific background to be a savvy and vocal advocate for our customers, ensuring that the finished product is effective through the use of their ingrained consideration of quality throughout the product development lifecycle. The candidate will use the provided test tools and agile processes to assist developers, ensure that the products work as expected, and manage the tools, frameworks, and verification environments. Software verification training would be provided if required. In addition to software verification,
this position will also require the candidate to conduct elicitation and documentation of software requirements, use cases, and specifications.
Key Responsibilities
- Verify that software products fully meet requirements.
- Perform exploratory testing.
- Clearly document and communicate issues found during testing to facilitate corrective action by developers and/or designers.
- Create, maintain, and execute manual and automated test cases.
- Review and help flesh out understanding of software requirements.
- Track verification progress, project issues, risks, and requirements.
- Plan software verification in accordance with project scope and software requirements.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- College Diploma, B.Sc., or M.Sc. In Chemistry or Biochemistry.
- Minimum 2 years of direct experience in LC-MS/MS.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to rapidly learn new hardware and software.
- Ability to design relevant test cases based on realistic customer workflows.
Additional / Preferred Skills
- Validation of recent algorithms would be an asset.
- Experience in elicitation and documentation of software requirements, use cases, and specifications.
- Experience with TOF MS/TOF MSMS.