Staff SDET

Abbott • Milpitas, CA

6d • Remote

About The Position

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. Our Diabetes division currently has an opportunity for a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test #software

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in a scientific, technical, or engineering discipline (Computer Science major preferred)
• 8 years’ experience in Software Testing and/or Software Quality Assurance
• 4 years’ experience working in a regulated industry
• 1 year experience working as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or equivalent hands‑on automation engineering role
• Must have strong, recent experience writing automated tests and building automation frameworks (not supervising, not reviewing, not primarily manual testing)
• Must have UI automation experience; mobile automation experience with Appium is a major plus
• Must be technically strong and have experience testing mobile applications
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Medical Device experience strongly preferred
• Experience in an agile development environment preferred
• Experience with embedded systems and integration testing with external systems preferred
• Cyber security, medical mobile applications, or cloud computing experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Review deliverables/activities as identified in the test plans for accuracy, consistency, completeness and compliance.
• Ensure adequate test coverage for every release
• Validate automated test coverage and directly contribute code to close gaps. This role is almost entirely hands‑on development, not manual testing.
• Mentor and provide day‑to‑day guidance to the junior members of the software test team.
• Review work to ensure compliance and quality
• Offer technical input when needed, but your primary responsibility is writing high‑quality automated tests and frameworks. This is not a lead, manager, or oversight‑heavy role.
• Provide feedback and suggest improvements to the Agile SDLC process
• Identify inefficiencies and propose automation‑driven improvements that accelerate development and testing.
• Strategically incorporate automated testing into the SDLC
• Drive a fully automated testing approach. Manual testing is not part of this role. UI automation is required, and mobile automation experience (especially Appium) is a major advantage.
• Evaluate new tools for adoption within the organization
• Assess and recommend automation tools, frameworks, and libraries that improve speed, reliability, or maintainability.
• Design, code, and maintain automated test frameworks using Python or another modern programming language (Java, etc.). Expect to spend the majority of your day writing code, building automation frameworks, and creating scalable automated test suites.
• Build end‑to-end automated test suites across UI, mobile, integration, and system layers. Candidates must have recent, hands‑on experience writing automated tests—not overseeing them, not delegating them.
• Collaborate with DevOps as needed. CI/CD familiarity is helpful but secondary to strong coding and automation engineering skills.
• Adapt automation frameworks to meet regulatory and product‑specific requirements. Ensure solutions are maintainable, reliable, and compliant.
• Continuously improve automation frameworks and test suites. Identify opportunities to replace manual testing with automated solutions and implement them directly.
• Work closely with developers and QA team members to ensure automation is deeply integrated into the development lifecycle. Provide technical insight without serving in a lead or managerial capacity.
• Produce clear, concise documentation for automated tests, frameworks, and processes. Ensure documentation meets regulatory and compliance requirements.

Benefits

• 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level