Sr. Software Test Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer in Test

At Arc Bio, LLC we are building novel molecular next-generation sequencing and computational technologies that will revolutionize pathogen identification.. Our Software and Informatics team is responsible for developing, building, and maintaining software to support our current product goals and our longer-term company mission. Arc Bio is an EdenRoc Sciences company

Job description

As a member of our core software and informatics team, you'll help ensure that we put accurate scientific pipelines in customers' hands as part of a highly diverse team of bioinformaticians, software developers, and statisticians. Some mission critical team goals you'd be responsible for would include:

• Creating a test discipline in the dry lab (software) organization.
• Working with DevOps and Software Engineers to define test requirements.
• Developing test plans to ensure our scientific pipelines consistently produce accurate results where DNA sequence files are processed and produce signal (numerical) results.
• Identifying test frameworks and tools required for testing.
• Developing test tools as needed.
• Developing automated tests based on tests cases in the test plans.
• Integrating automated tests into a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline.

The primary scope of testing will focus on ensuring the scientific pipelines consistently produce accurate results.

Additional scope includes:

• Developing performance tests to help assess workload capacity of the scientific pipelines.
• End to end testing - from web interface to scientific pipeline results reporting.

Required experience

We are a small team, all wearing many hats. Working with internal teams and customers will be essential. Implementing effective automated testing in our software development and deployment workflows will also be critical. Additional experience requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to develop software tests (Automated, Manual, Exploratory etc...).
• Demonstrated ability to create test plans and test cases.
• Demonstrated ability to test at different interfaces in a distributed software system deployed in an AWS environment:
  • Web browser.
  • Internal AWS service endpoints (e.g., SQS queues).
  • CLI applications on Docker containers.
  • S3 objects.

Preferred experience

• Experience with Jenkins Pipelines.
• Substantial expertise in a programming language such as C and Python; solid Linux foundation.
• Previous public cloud experience with Amazon, Google, or Azure
• Experience with bioinformatics or next-generation sequencing is a plus, but not required.
• Experience handling and processing large volumes of data
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Previous industry experience

EdenRoc Sciences companies enjoy working with a diverse group of people on novel products in molecular biology. We understand that our differences make us stronger. Our employees have Fortune 500 level benefits with a generous portion of the premiums paid for by EdenRoc. We provide ample time off, a hybrid work model and modern offices. We are an equal opportunity employer.