Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
The group's key figures are approximately: Turnover of 6.5 billion euros, more than 940 laboratories in 62 countries and around 62,000 employees.
Job Description
Overall Objectives
The Test Automation Engineer ensures quality and reliability for ADMS, the Eurofins Information Systems (EurIS) web-based CustomerRelationship Management application that standardizes sales and laboratory processes across Eurofins laboratories worldwide. The roleworks within the ADMS Development Team based in Dublin alongside Software Engineers, Business Analysts, and a SoftwareDevelopment Engineer in Test, building and maintaining automated test suites that cover functional and non-functional requirementsacross acceptance and deployment stages. The team delivers software using Agile/DevOps practices on a stack including C#, .NET,Angular, and DevOps tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and Octopus.
Key Responsibilities
- You act as the dedicated Test Automation Engineer within a Scrum team of five collocated Software Engineers and oneSoftware Development Engineer in Test (SDET), integrating test automation at every stage of feature development.
- You contribute to test execution (acceptance, deployment, and more), build automation, and troubleshooting of selectedfunctional and non-functional requirements for target software applications and services, maintaining an automation ratio of80%.
- You perform exploratory testing in addition to automated User Interface (UI) tests to uncover usability issues, visual glitches,hidden defects, and functionality gaps.
- You apply Agile/Scrum/Kanban values and practices, particularly by participating in team meetings (stand-ups, backlogrefinement, acceptance criteria refinement) and performing incremental testing of the application.
- You follow continuous delivery practices by ensuring ADMS test suites are automated and systematically executed as part ofthe Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline at acceptance and deployment stages.
- You apply and continuously refine test strategies and test plans to ensure high-quality product delivery.
- You collaborate with Software Engineers, architects, development managers, and business analysts to achieve comprehensivetest coverage and quality.
- You communicate proactively with business analysts, development, and testing teams to resolve ambiguity and maintainalignment on test coverage and quality
Other Assignments
- You ensure follow-up with the Team Manager on a regular basis and as often as requested.
- You acquire working knowledge of Eurofins EurIS systems, starting with ADMS, its underlying concepts, models, and theprocesses and practices of the team.
- You continuously deepen knowledge of ADMS concepts, models, and team practices, guided by the priorities of assignedfunctions.
- You build effective working relationships with IT and non-IT stakeholders across Eurofins.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Qualifications
- You hold a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- You have more than three years of experience in software testing, with a focus on automation and proven manual testing skills.
- You demonstrate thorough understanding of various types of testing and their purposes, including acceptance, regression, sanity, and exploratory testing.
- You demonstrate thorough understanding of software applications at both functional and technical levels, with the ability to extend and refine acceptance criteria, including consideration of corner, edge, and boundary cases.
- You have knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices for effective integration of testing into the development process.
- You are proficient in automation using object-oriented languages (such as Java, C#).
- You understand web service patterns using Representational State Transfer (REST) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) queuing patterns, and can test them with automation.
- You have experience with UI automation testing using tools like Selenium or JavaScript frameworks such as WebdriverIO.
- You are proficient in debugging code and troubleshooting issues across various layers of the application stack.
- You investigate root causes of defects and performance issues.
- You collaborate effectively with distributed teams across multiple countries.
- You understand manual testing practices and techniques to complement automated test coverage.
- You are fluent in English (written and spoken).
Preferred Skills and Experience
- You have initial experience with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) tools such as SpecFlow/Reqnroll, JBehave, orCucumber.js for writing test cases in a given/when/then format.
- You have knowledge of scripting languages like PowerShell, Shell, or Bash for automating tasks and writing test scripts.
- You have experience testing backend services developed with a Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach.
- You are familiar with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins.
- You have experience in automation with web frontend languages (JavaScript or TypeScript).
- You have experience with tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling for performance, load, and stress testing, and can review and interpret performance test results and identify bottlenecks.
- You have experience working with relational databases and working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL).
Additional Information
Working hours:
Monday to Friday - 08:00 to 17:00 Hybrid Work