Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join the team in Lisbon, Portugal!

To support the modernisation of the Eurofins Information System (EurIS), you will join the Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) Development team and help transform the web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system supporting critical laboratory processes.

You will work in a collaborative scrum environment with software engineers and Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) helping deliver high-quality, robust, and scalable software. You will gain hands-on experience with programming languages and frameworks, including C#, .NET, MS SQL Server, Angular, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure DevOps, and work in a service-oriented architecture with Agile and DevOps practices.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites (target automation ratio ~80%).
• Contribute to acceptance, regression, and deployment testing activities.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover usability issues, visual inconsistencies, and hidden defects.
• Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (lub Continuous Deployment) pipelines to ensure continuous quality.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, business analysts, and Quality Assurance (QA) colleagues to achieve comprehensive test coverage.
• Participate actively in scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, backlog refinement, acceptance criteria discussions.
• Contribute to improving test strategies and quality processes.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues across different layers of the application stack.
• Continuously develop your understanding of ADMS and associated business processes.

We are looking for a candidate with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience), with at least three years of software testing experience, including strong automation skills and effective manual testing capability. You should have a solid understanding of acceptance, sanity, exploration, and regression testing, and be confident challenging and extending acceptance criteria to cover corner, edge, and boundary cases.

You must be proficient in an object-oriented programming language such as C# or Java, and have experience with UI (User Interface) automation tools like Selenium or Webdriver.io. You should have a good understanding of REST APIs (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces) and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) patterns, and know how to test them effectively using automation. Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices, along with experience integrating automated tests into Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins), is essential. You should also have practical knowledge of relational databases and be able to write SQL (Structured Query Language) queries for validation, combined with strong debugging and root cause analysis skills. Experience working with distributed teams and applying exploratory testing principles is also required.

Desirable experience includes exposure to BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) tools (SpecFlow, Reqnroll, Cucumber, JBehave), knowledge of scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Shell), experience testing backend applications using Domain-Driven Design, and performance testing with tools like JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner. Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern frontend technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript) is also advantageous.

What’s in it for you?

By joining the team, you will:

• Work on critical laboratory systems that impact global operations of a leading life sciences network.
• Join a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative team.
• Gain experience with cutting-edge technologies and modern software practices.
• Develop your skills continuously through challenging projects and mentoring.
• Contribute to high-quality software delivery with real business impact.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.