Automation tester

Job ID: 31158523Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: Italy - MilanJob Type: Full timeCategory: Research & DevelopmentIndustry: HealthcarePosted Date: 2026-08-10Automation Tester The Automation Tester (AT) reports into the AlinIQ Product Research and Development organization in Abbott Core Diagnostics. The AT is responsible for design, development, execution, review and reporting of automated testing for our informatics products in compliance with division, corporate, and industry regulation. This position will help build out and maintain our automation tools and test scripts. The AT will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product research and development teams in automation practices, working closely with software engineers, software testing, business analysts, cybersecurity, and others in Agile Scrum methodologies. The role requires the ability to work in an environment that is fast paced, to work independently, and to communicate and collaborate well as part of a team.Core Job Responsibilities Design, develop, and execute automated software test plans for server, web and cloud, informatics products in collaboration with scrum-based cross-functional design and development teams.Develop and execute software testing (black and white box) across various containerized and networked components.Design, script, and automate test cases for test driven development and continuous testing.Understand the application architecture, hosting infrastructure, interaction with dependency apps and complete feature workflow to assess the risks around integration points before developing great test casesPerform peer testing automation review, definition of criteria for testing, analyzing test results, and presenting results to developers and other stakeholders.Perform test case and test case run analysis to determine adequacy of testing, including coverage, boundary, and regression analysis.Provide testing & allied documentation in conformance with regulatory, security, and privacy standards for all types of testing such as functional, performance, regression, other.Provide input to systems and applications developers on testing procedures and requirements, schedules, or potential problems.Fault isolation, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis activities during system integration and testing for systems in development.Minimum Education Bachelor’s degree in engineering; computer science; management information system or closely related discipline.Required Qualifications / Experience Minimum of 2 years of software development or test automation work experienceKnowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process and testing methodologiesExperience with requirements and test cases managementProficiency in JavaScript or TypeScriptProficiency in SQL or other RDBMSFluent in English (read/write/speak)Preferred Qualifications / ExperienceExperience with BrowserStack and Selenium WebDriverExperience with JIRA and the Atlassian suiteFamiliarity with continuous integration tools like Jenkins or GitHubExperience in the healthcare or diagnostics industryExperience with the Agile methodology and Scrum ceremoniesExperience using AI tools for automation testingSkillsautomated software testingjavascriptsqltest case designtest plan developmenttest executiontypescriptrdbmsblack box testingwhite box testingcontinuous integrationjenkinsgithubagilescrumroot cause analysistest documentationsystem integrationtroubleshootingbrowserstackselenium webdriverjiraatlassian suiteai tools for automation testinghealthcare industry experiencediagnostics industry experience