Software Integration Engineer
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
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Software Integration Engineer
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Our Diagnostics business in Transfusion Medicine currently has an opportunity for a Software Integration Engineer. This position is based in our Irving, TX office. The primary function of this position is to perform software integration testing for an automated IVD system used for blood and plasma screening.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
What You’ll Work On
- Integration testing throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Heavily interacts with the development teams to ensure the right tests are being executed properly.
- Collaborate with other Software Integration Test Engineers to develop integration test plans and test scenarios and perform the testing on the target instrument in the lab.
- Complete software integration activities for the development of user stories within an Agile SDLC process.
- Perform exploratory testing and system-level end-to-end integration incorporating customer day-to-day scenarios.
- Investigate and report unexpected events, issues, or software bugs. Verify fixes.
- Travel requirement: minimal up to 5%
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum 2 years' work-related experience
- Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting IVDs and Biologics
- Reviews, generates and documents Verification & Validation or characterization related inputs
- Demonstrates use of experimental and data Analysis techniques including statistics, DOE and Six Sigma training
- Presents, delivers and interprets information amongst product team members, scientists, engineers, and other systems development personnel
- Proficient in operation of instruments, and repair/replacement of parts/subassemblies
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience performing software integration testing of complex electromechanical systems
- Regression and Functional Testing is a plus for understanding as it is part of this role
- Experience working in the medical industry and an FDA-regulated environment is a plus
- Hands-on experience with complex diagnostic medical equipment; experience with Abbott IVD systems is a strong plus
- Moderate knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Scripting knowledge is a plus including using python and or Bash
- Troubleshooting experience across multiple system functions (i.e., hardware and software)
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is
$68,000.00 – $136,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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Product Development
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TM Transfusion Medicine
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United States > Irving : LC-02
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Standard
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Yes, 5 % of the Time
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Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: --------------------------------
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
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About Abbott
Abbott is engaged in pharmaceuticals and manufacturing healthcare products.
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