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Volta Labs

Instrument Software Quality Engineer

Volta Labs • US
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ABOUT US:
Volta Labs is an applications company that is revolutionizing the future of genomics. We are a Boston based, venture-backed biotech startup that makes extracting vital information from biological samples is as simple as pressing a button, through our flagship product Callisto. Our product speeds up processing time for scientists and increases accessibility to important genetic information for patients. Sitting at the intersection of science and engineering, we invite you to join us on our journey to shape the future of genomics, where insatiable curiosity is encouraged and every Voltarian makes an impact.

THE TEAM:
You'll join a team of innovative thinkers who love to experiment, collaborate, and win together. We are passionate about pushing the boundaries of automation, biology, computing, robotics, design, and user experience to benefit our customers and the world.

The Instrument Software Quality Engineer will report to the Manager of Software Engineering and be a primary trusted interdisciplinary partner to help ensure the device software quality exceeds customer expectations within Volta.  Areas of work include managing software releases, authoring, running and reporting on smoke and regression tests, and general bug finding and documentation.  Join us if you are passionate about test quality, and want to define the future of automation in the life sciences!  This role is perfect for a software engineer who loves to test, automate and up level the quality of the products they work on.

DAY TO DAY AND YEAR 1:

  • Facilitate the release and deployment of device software to our fleet of instruments
  • Work closely with the biology team to determine software quality success criteria
  • Work closely with the SW dev team to test bug fixes and new features
  • Debug instrument issues as they arise day to day, and create bug tickets as necessary
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    Within 3 months you’ll… 
  • Run manual and automated device software test procedures
  • Routinely monitor device logs for health 
  • Maintain device software release notes
  • Have documented and oversee execution of existing software test procedures
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    By 6 months you’ll… 
  • Design, develop and run new manual and automated device software test procedures
  • Facilitate the authoring of both software feature tickets as well as software bug tickets to ensure tickets include information such as success, criteria, and test criteria
  • Participate in design reviews with the quality perspective
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    At 12+ months you’ll… 
  • Be the software quality voice of the consumer, empowered to approve or reject software releases
  • Establish best practices, and capabilities for the SQA function
  • Facilitate in the design development and execution of manufacturing system test

    • QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 3+ years in a device SQA position
  • Familiar with scripting languages such as Python
  • Experience with issues tracking tools such as JIRA
  • Experience with QA automation
  • Experience authoring test procedures
  • Experience working with Linux style systems and traversing a system in terminal
  • You have demonstrated experience balancing good quality practices and delivering.
  • You are a solutions oriented contributor with a bias towards action over perfection.
  • A desire to be hands-on testing
  • You are comfortable with exposed electronics and unfinished hardware
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