Manager Software Verification

Cepheid is a leading molecular diagnostics company that is dedicated to improving healthcare by developing, manufacturing, and marketing accurate yet easy-to-use molecular systems and tests. In our facilities in Solna / Sundbyberg we develop and manufacture diagnostics tests that improve patient outcome all over the world

The Manager Software Verification manages a team of software test engineers to design, develop, test and automate verification of Cepheid’s C360 connected platform. Cepheid C360 is a web-based cloud software platform providing administrative and analytics support for Cepheid’s GeneXpert product family.

Software verification team is focused on automated tests development for a product with front-end written in Angular and a back-end in Java/Spring. The work is done in cross-functional Agile scrum teams together with Software Quality (SQA) to develop and test cloud services for disease surveillance and systems administration in the diagnostics area.

This role require a combination of a highly technical hands-on software test engineer and an dedicated people manager. Position is within software development organization and reporting directly to director of software development.

Job responsibilities include:

• Lead the execution and delivery of C360 software test and verification activities
• Perform employee performance management including goal setting and performance review
• Provide coaching and mentoring to team members
• Oversee the assignments and duties of employees including day-to-day activities
• Manage requirement analysis, design, test development and test activities, schedules, resource allocations, and delivery of the verification output
• Drive end-to-end quality with effective automation of unit level, component level and system level testing
• Ensure design and code reviews, analysis of code components, test components and test coverage of the product are meeting the highest standard
• Recruit, inspire, and develop team members
• Responsibility includes interacting with cross-functional stakeholders from SW Development, SQA, Marketing, Service and support organizations, and project/program managers during the development and delivery of the product

Knowledge and skills:

• Leadership skills with demonstrated capacity to mentor highly productive and motivated software test teams
• Experience from fostering a strong test engineering culture, setting clear expectations and creating a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with software engineering and core teams
• Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering testing efforts
• Proven project management capabilities
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Experience with Agile development process
• Results oriented person with a delivery focus
• Working experience with Software test automation with Java, Spring using e.g. JUnit, Cucumber, Selenium
• Experience with REST, JSON, SQL/MySQL
• Comfortable in using a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Working experience with Git, Linux (command line)
• Knowledge about CI, Jenkins is meriting
• Ability to communicate both at the code level as well as translation between broader business imperatives and low-level implementation details.
• Background from medical device industry or regulated industry is meriting
• Fluent in English, speaker and writer on technical subjects
• Knowledge in Swedish is meriting

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of related work experience or Master’s degree in field with 5-10 years of related work experience