Job Description

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Sr. SQAE

Join STERIS as a Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer and become a pivotal force in enhancing software quality across our global operations. Leverage your extensive experience with diverse technologies and advanced testing disciplines to drive impactful process improvements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead testing and validation efforts, and ensure our software solutions are robust, reliable, and exceed industry standards. This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact and advance your career at a dynamic, innovative and industry leading organization!

This is a Hybrid role and requires onsite work 2 days per week at our Mentor, OH Headquarters.

What you will do as a Sr. SQAE:

At STERIS, Sr. SQAE,are proactive and crucial team members and change agents, capable of delivering within and improving our current softwares and systems. This role requires expertise in software QA methodologies, SQL, and automated testing, along with strong critical thinking and technical writing skills. The ideal candidate will excel in teaching complex technical concepts to non-technical people, thrive in an Agile environment, and effectively manage multiple projects. On a day to day basis you will perform and contribute to the following:

Leadership 20%

• Implement software quality standards and lead continuous improvement of quality within the software development lifecycle.

• Implement new policies and processes including Agile-Scrum methodology

• Ensure  compliance to regulatory controls including but not limited to SOX & ISO 13485

• Aggregate, Monitor and Review QA metrics

• Assist and mentor junior team members with their more complex responsibilities and issues.

• Review test plans written by others to provide feedback

• Recommend changes to tracked QA metrics to support continuous improvement.

Test Planning – 40%

• Work within Zephyr or other test management tools

• Review system designs to identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting or inaccurate requirements or design specifications.

• Translate system requirements and designs into detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test cases.

• Develop system documentation and test planning across multiple applications to ensure validation within the scope of regulatory requirements..

• Follow IT, Quality & Regulatory processes and procedures 

• Oversee the general IT and Quality controls processes related to auditing, monitoring, approvals, and validation.

Test Execution – 40%

• Execute test plans to perform functional, integration, regression testing

• Execute exploratory test sessions.

• Identify, records, and documents defects with an issue tracking system

• Monitor and tracks defects to resolution

• Document test cases, test plans and test results with a test documentation tool

• Facilitate user acceptance testing sessions

• Work with Business Process Owners to obtain and document approval of systems and system changes

• Perform defect root cause analysis and suggests potential resolutions to developers

• Assist in developing and maintaining an automated testing framework.

• Report metrics to accurately reflect project status.

• Coordinate and lead Quality Assurance cycles to ensure applications satisfy end user requirements using a standard process methodology.

The Experience, Skills and Abilities needed:

To be considered and be successful in this role you will need the following years of experience and education:

• A Bachelors Degree or higher with 7 years total experience in a QA, Test, or Software Development/Engineering role. 
• In lieu of a degree,a combination of work experience and education will be considered.

In addition, you will have the following 7 years experience, expertise, skills, and abilities:

• Leadership: You're able to deliver within the current system while constantly looking for ways to improve the current system.
• Quality Assurance: Expert knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Critical Thinking : Form clear reasoned judgements by gathering, analyzing, and systematizing information.
• Technical Writing: Writes clear explanations of technical processes and information.
• Teamwork: Fosters an environment that bring more value from each individual’s abilities.
• SQL: Able to write SQL select statements that join multiple tables without using outside resources. Also able to read and edit complex queries, functions, procedures, etc.
• Teaching: Can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people and they understand it and learn it. (Software Training/Implementation)
• Agile: Able to switch context often with clarity and without frustration.
• Organized: Able to balance the demands and priorities of multiple projects bringing each to successful completion.
• Continuous Learner : Able to independently expand knowledge of multiple software systems quickly by using both online and offline resources.
• Automated Testing: Minimum 2 years experience understanding of multiple automated testing techniques and tools
• Process Improvement: You have minimum 4 years experience recognizing process improvement opportunities, and developing the improvements.

What STERIS Offers:

At Steris, we invest in our employees and their families for the long term! STERIS wouldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. We shares our success together with you by rewarding you for your hard work and achievements.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off (18 days starting) and (9) added Holidays.
• Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) with a company match
• Long/Short term disability coverage
• Parental Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Continued training and educations programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career
  

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STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.  WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047 . This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.  We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.

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