Software Test Engineer

Job Title: Software Test Engineer

Location: Oxford – Hybrid

Employment Status: Full Time, Perm

Salary Band: Competitive

Do you want to make a difference while advancing your career? Come join Osler.

We are a UK diagnostics company whose purpose is to enable anyone, anywhere, to access, understand, and act on their health, to live healthier, happier, and longer lives.

We are realising this through the development of the Osler Origin – a 'portable lab' capable of performing a wide range of testing, with lab-quality performance, in a portable, rapid, low-cost, and easy-to-use manner. The Osler Origin will offer a wide portfolio of diagnostic tests and serve all major healthcare settings, globally.

The Osler Origin is powered by a portfolio of novel techniques and approaches for sample addition, microfluidic sample preparation, and electrochemical biosensing, and Osler was formed out of the University of Oxford in 2017, following decades of research.

Having recently completed an $85m Series C fundraise, we are now entering a growth phase, where we are scaling our team as we take the Osler Origin product through regulatory activities, and towards market launch.

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Test Engineer to join the Software Team, who will ensure that our product software is tested to high standards based on industry best practices. To achieve this, as part of a team responsible for testing, debugging, and qualifying software releases and updates, you will need great communication with the multidisciplinary team creating the product. Your goal will be to enable the team to get the software product tested and released to the market according to agreed project timelines.

Join us and help build a better future.

Your responsibilities in this role will be to:

• Design and implement test cases against software requirements at all levels, including functional, integration, regression, smoke and unit testing
• Review other testers’ test cases and implementation
• Work with software development team members and other areas of Osler to clarify requirement definition
• Automate test cases where possible, using a variety of technologies such as pytest, Appium/Selenium and Google Test
• Actively support and drive the adoption of new technologies and approaches for both manual and automated testing, including the use of CI/CD systems, both locally and cloud-based

Skills and knowledge:

Essential:

• An ability to rapidly understand complex technical requirements and derive test cases to verify these requirements
• Formulation of detailed test cases that provide comprehensive coverage of software requirements
• Development of test scripts to automate test cases in scripting execution of test cases
• Software test case development using an Agile methodology
• Experience of the Jenkins or similar CI/CD system
• Proficiency in Python
• Knowledge (comprehension level or better) of Java and C
• Familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems
• A passion for testing challenging software

Desirable:

• Knowledge of git and platforms such as Jira and Confluence
• Proficiency in Java and Appium
• Software Development Lifecycle to medical device standards, and associated standards (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14791, etc.)
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with cloud technologies, in particular AWS for infrastructure and using RESTful APIs for data exchange
• Hands-on experience of testing Android or low-level embedded software
• Experience gained through hobby projects in areas of automation or interfacing physical devices to cloud systems

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefits package, with a focus on health and well-being -further supporting the belief in our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to access, understand and act on their health.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays and a Christmas closure
• Annual Learning & Development budget 4% of your salary
• 12 days of Learning leave
• Company Pension
• £500 Well-being allowance
• Vitality Health Insurance - (includes subsidised gym memberships)
• 24/7 access to a GP
• Life Assurance - x4 annual salary
• Income Protection - 75% of your basic annual salary
• Private Travel Insurance
• Annual eye tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel to work loan scheme
• Relocation assistance
• Volunteering leave
• Give as you earn - pre-tax salary donations to any UK charitable organisation
• Free healthy breakfast and fruit
• Enhanced Paternity and Maternity Pay

There is no perfect candidate, and no single person can do it all, but if this sounds like you, or what you could be and you're looking for somewhere to thrive; we want to hear from you.
We look forward to receiving your application. If you have any questions, please contact talent@oslerdiagnostics.com