What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Test Engineer position at Waters Corporation?
Overview:
At TA Instruments, we are looking for a skilled Software Test Engineer to join our team and play a foundational role in building the quality and reliability of our next-generation, cloud-based software platform. Through comprehensive manual and automated testing, you’ll ensure our solutions set the highest standards for performance and innovation.
Responsibilities:
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Interested in joining our Systems & Software Test Engineering Team?
At TA Instruments, we are looking for a skilled Software Test Engineer to join our team and play a foundational role in building the quality and reliability of our next-generation, cloud-based software platform. Through comprehensive manual and automated testing, you’ll ensure our solutions set the highest standards for performance and innovation.
Typical tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Design, develop, and execute both manual and automated test cases for our cloud-based applications, ensuring functional, performance, security, and usability requirements are met.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand requirements, develop test strategies, and refine acceptance criteria.
- Build and maintain automated test scripts for web applications, APIs, and data processing workflows.
- Perform API testing to validate data integrity and system interactions.
- Ensure CI/CD integration by implementing automated tests in continuous deployment pipelines.
- Identify, document, and track defects in issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira).
- Contribute to the overall test strategy to ensure the scalability, security, and high performance of the cloud solution.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 3 years of software testing experience, with a focus on web and cloud-based applications.
Technical Skills:
- Strong experience with manual and automated testing for cloud-based software.
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestComplete).
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.
