The Senior Software Engineer in Test will manage functional and automation testing, collaborate closely with Agile teams, and oversee quality assurance processes to enhance a SaaS platform for life sciences.
Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
The Role
We're hiring experienced Senior Software Engineers in Test to work on Site Vault, a rapidly growing SaaS platform product in the Life Sciences industry encompassing the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices.
As part of our Quality Assurance and Release Engineering team, you'll be responsible for functional and automation testing to deliver a top-quality SaaS product. This is a hands-on position playing a vital role in ensuring customer success with each new release.
If you are an experienced Quality Engineering professional ready to make an impact and take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you. In our fast-paced environment, you'll be involved in the product development process, taking pride in building great software. You'll collaborate with like-minded engineers in a high-energy setting and leverage your existing skills to learn and grow with us.
Veeva is a Work Anywhere company, offering you the flexibility to work from home or in our office hubs (Pleasanton, CA, Kansas City, MO, Boston, MA, and Raleigh, NC) spread throughout the United States.
What You'll Do
- Create testing-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, and bug reports assessing quality and associated risk
- Automate features for better regression coverage
- Triage and/or assist with triaging of automation results
- Develop deep expertise in the product
- Conduct QA tests and verify outcomes within schedules/timelines
- Work with software engineers, product managers, and other quality engineers in an Agile team environment
- Operate at architecture and code level, driving technical discussions during design/implementation reviews
- Be the technical quality expert in functional areas and influencing decisions that will help build quality into the product
- Be comfortable providing technical leadership to junior teammates, enabling them to achieve targeted goals
- Conduct POCs and make recommendations that would help raise the quality bar
- Enhance your knowledge of code coverage tools and metrics
- Work with quality management to come up with new processes and roll them out across the organization
- Become a technical contributor, a product expert, and a team project manager and support your QA manager as and when you work on the product
Requirements
- 7+ years relevant work experience, including software development and/or software test automation
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of Software QA methodologies, tools, and approaches (black box and/or automated testing) in a software company with short release cycles
- Experience in writing test cases and automating them, covering both sanity and in-depth testing including and not limited to boundary, negative, compatibility, and concurrency tests
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Must be located in the Eastern Time Zone
Nice to Have
- Experience in JavaScript, Java, Python, or other object-oriented programming language
- Experience with Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence
- Experience with TestRail or similar test case management software
- Experience authoring automated tests in standard functional test automation frameworks. e.g., Cucumber/Selenium/TestNg. Playwright is preferred
- Knowledge of modern best practices for software development
- Experience in a SaaS environment that has an agile development process is a huge plus
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience working in the Health Sciences and Life Sciences industry
Perks & Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
Compensation
- Base pay: $100,000 - $175,000
- The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].
Top Skills
Confluence
Cucumber
Java
JavaScript
JIRA
Playwright
Python
Selenium
Testng
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