Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
DESCRIPTION:
Join our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific and help make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer through innovative software solutions. As a Sr Test Automation Engineer, you'll work on next-generation cloud-based architectures and platforms, ensuring the quality and reliability of our scientific software products. You'll collaborate with teams to design, develop, and maintain comprehensive test automation frameworks while driving adoption of best practices across the organization. This role offers opportunities to work with advanced technologies in cloud computing, laboratory automation, and scientific instrumentation, directly impacting research and healthcare outcomes worldwide.
Key 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
Required Qualifications:
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Indiana is $93,800.00–$140,675.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards