SW Test Development Engineer 1

Job Description

Meet the team: We re a collaborative and innovative software quality team focused on ensuring the reliability and performance of Dexcom s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems. Our mission is to build quality into every stage of the development lifecycle through smart automation, rigorous testing, and a passion for improving lives. If youre eager to grow your skills while contributing to life-changing technology, this is the team for you. Where you come in: You participate in building quality into products by writing automated tests and performing ad hoc testing throughout the development cycle. You contribute to the development of software requirements and design specifications. You design, develop, execute, and maintain both automated and manual test scripts to validate Dexcom CGM software and systems. You create verification and validation test plans, traceability matrices, and test reports, and review them with relevant stakeholders. You record and track issues using the bug tracking system. You analyze test failures and collaborate with development teams to investigate root causes. You contribute to continuous improvement of the release process. What makes you successful: You have 1-3 years of hands-on experience in software development or software test development using Python or other object-oriented programming languages. You have experience with SQL and NoSQL databases. You bring experience in automated test development for API testing. You have worked with a variety of automated testing frameworks, including Robot Framework. Your strong understanding of API testing, microservices, and distributed systems in cloud environments sets you apart. You have experience with automated UI testing. You are familiar with cloud platforms like Google Cloud or AWS. You have experience with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes. You may have experience in the medical device industry and familiarity with FDA design control processes (highly desired). Your knowledge of GCP tools like Airflow, Dataflow, and BigQuery is a plus. Experience with distributed event streaming platforms like Kafka is a plus. Experience with performance testing is a plus. You bring CI/CD experience, especially with cloud-based technologies. You have five or more years of Agile development and test development experience. You collaborate effectively across functions to support testing, deployment, and reporting on product performance, quality, security, and stability. You are a self-starter who works well with minimal guidance and communicates clearly both verbally and in writing.