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Senior Test Automation Engineer

Bio Techne

Company websitebio-techne.com (Bio Techne, opens in new tab)

Base salary $115,100  to $189,200

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Jose, CA

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  • LocationSan Jose, CA
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range:

$115,100.00 - $189,200.00

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Test Automation Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable automated test solutions for instrument software, data pipelines, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled applications. This position works closely with software engineers, scientists, product owners, and Software Quality Assurance to ensure software requirements are testable and verification is comprehensive, traceable, and compliant with applicable Quality System requirements.

The role contributes to automation architecture, continuous integration, test-data design, defect investigation, and verification planning for protein-analysis products and digital laboratory solutions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

·  Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for desktop, web, API, instrument-control, data-pipeline, and analytics applications, as applicable.

·  Define and contribute to test automation architecture, frameworks, coding standards, and reusable test components.

·  Integrate automated tests into source-control and continuous-integration workflows using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, or equivalent technologies.

·  Develop automated tests using Python, TestComplete, shell scripting, SQL, and other approved technologies.

·  Create and maintain test data, test environments, mocks, simulators, and utilities needed to validate software workflows and error handling.

·  Review software requirements, specifications, and designs for clarity, completeness, traceability, and testability.

·  Develop and execute verification plans, protocols, test cases, and associated records in accordance with Quality System requirements (QMetry).

·  Document, investigate, reproduce, and verify software defects using Jira or an approved defect-management system.

·  Analyze test results, identify failure patterns, and communicate product-quality and automation findings to project stakeholders.

·  Maintain automated test assets under configuration control and participate in code reviews.

·  Evaluate and apply approved AI-assisted engineering tools to support test design, test generation, code review, and validation while maintaining appropriate human review and control.

·  Collaborate with software engineers, systems engineers, scientists, product owners, and SQA personnel throughout the software lifecycle.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, engineering, or a related technical discipline, plus at least six years of relevant software test automation experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Preferred experience in the life sciences.


Why Join Bio-Techne:

  • We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.

  • We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.

  • We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.

  • We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging. 

  • We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.

  • We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.


Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.


To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.


This position requires work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status). If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or take part in any other stage of the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

Source: Bio Techne on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($115,100) is above 4% of the 4,306 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site. Their median floor is $176,000; the middle half runs from $149,100 to $203,750.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Bio Techne roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Bio Techne roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Test Automation Engineer (this listing)$115,100 - $189,200
Manager, Program Management$115,100 - $189,200
Senior Salesforce Developer$115,900 - $190,450
Senior Manager, Denver Operations & Supply Chain$115,900 - $190,450
Commercial Effectiveness Manager$115,900 - $190,450
Senior Software Engineer$121,400 - $199,550
Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Productivity$100,800 - $165,600

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Bio Techne roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-09-24
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Location as the employer wrote it: San Jose, CA

$115,100.00 - $189,200.00

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