Staff Software Test Engineer

Location: United States - California - Pleasanton

Category: Research & Development

Employment Type: Full time

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

What You’ll Work On 

• Lead and execute end‑to‑end software verification for cloud‑based web and mobile applications within a regulated medical device environment, ensuring quality and compliance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously refine verification plans, protocols, and reports in alignment with FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and other applicable standards to support regulatory audits and submissions.
• Partner closely with product owners, architects, and developers to ensure requirements are fully testable, traceable, and aligned with verification strategies.
• Support and contribute to risk management activities, including risk analysis, defect triage, impact assessment, and root‑cause investigations.
• Participate in design reviews and provide verification‑centric input, ensuring design artifacts meet regulatory and quality expectations.
• Champion continuous improvement by optimizing verification workflows, automation coverage, tooling, and metrics to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Design and implement robust automated and manual test strategies across functional, integration, system, and regression testing, emphasizing scalability, maintainability, and alignment with DevOps practices.
•  Architect, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks and pipelines, integrating automated tests into CI/CD ecosystems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines) to enable rapid, consistent, and reliable software delivery.
• Mentor and guide junior verification engineers, fostering technical growth, best practices in automation, and strong engineering discipline across the team.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software verification and quality engineering, with strong emphasis on automation-first testing strategies.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and developing scalable automation frameworks (PyTest, Jest, Playwright, REST Assured) and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript) with the ability to build reusable automation utilities and tooling.
• Deep experience with modern CI/CD ecosystems, including GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines, enabling fully automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Working knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker, supporting environment parity for automated testing in ephemeral environments.
• Experience with log aggregation and monitoring tools, including Graylog and Datadog, to enable automated observability and troubleshooting within pipelines.
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional DevOps and engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science 

• Experience with cloud-native technologies, and strong knowledge of SDLC, quality assurance, and data compliance standards such as HIPAA and GDPR. 

• Familiarity with system integration and end-to-end testing in complex environments. 

• Experience with cloud-native architectures and microservices testing. 

• Background in healthcare or other regulated industries is a strong plus. 

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 – $228,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.