Quest Diagnostics

CI/CD Senior Automation Engineer

Posted on: 14 Apr 2021

Alameda, CA

Job Description

Job Description

Look for more than answers.

At Quest, we are on a continuous journey of discovery and development. Its this attitude that has made us an industry leader and the 1 Diagnostic Lab in the US. For those joining us, we offer exciting and fast moving career opportunities where you can affect change at a rate unheard of in many organizations of our size and scope. While we invest in and develop technology to drive our innovations, our ongoing success relies on our people.

Quest Diagnostics Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) products provide specific answers that clinicians need to deliver the appropriate diagnostic and prognostic care to patients throughout the United States. As a Bioinformatics Senior Automation Engineer, you will work for the world leader in the industry, with a career where you will have the opportunity to collaborate and affect change while expanding your leadership skills and technical knowledge. You can make a real impact in a market that is growing and developing.

CI/CD Senior Automation Engineer, the role:

As a member of the Quest Diagnostics Bioinformatics team you will work closely with Bioinformatics developers to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for DevOps.

This professional can work remotely in the greater San Francisco Bay area. Occasional local travel to attend in-person meetings will be required.

Job responsibilities:

* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our development, validation and production environments
* Work closely with bioinformatics engineers and software leads to gather and implement requirements for the automation framework
* Enable and support bioinformatics engineers to use the automation framework and infrastructure throughout SDLC
* Support other testing requirements

To qualify, the ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

* B.S. in Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genetics, Computer Sciences or a related field with 4+ years of experience in software validation and verification
* Experience with building CI/CD pipelines for DevOps, using tools like Jenkins
* Experience in test automation, test case management tools, and best practices for scalability and maintainability
* Experience in using version control tools, eg. Git
* Demonstrated programming and scripting skills in a Linux environment (Perl, Python, R, C/C++, etc.)
* Demonstrated ability to communicate efficiently and work effectively with a team of scientists
* Demonstrated ability to innovate
* Experience with working in a regulated clinical environment
* Experience in working with on prem and cloud computing environments
* Experience with writing SQL queries
* Familiarity with container workflows and with workflow languages

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Join us for competitive benefits and development opportunities in a progressive and supportive environment. Help us improve our service, and the experiences of our patients and colleagues. Work with us and together we can be better.

Your Quest career. Seek it out.

All requirements are subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Quest Diagnostics is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Disabled / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity.

Quest Diagnostics

Secaucus, NJ

Company Overview

Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 46,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives.

At a Glance

Quest Diagnostics is the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services
Generated 2018 revenues of approximately $7.53 billion
Publicly trades common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: DGX). More in Investor Relations
Ranks as a component of the S&P 500
Touches the lives of 30 percent of American adults each year
Serves about half of the physicians and hospitals in the U.S
Access to approximately 90% of U.S. insured lives
Engages workforce of about 46,000 employees dedicated to putting patients first every day
More than 6,600 patient access points, the most extensive network in the U.S.,
including phlebotomists in physician offices and more than 2,250 of our own
patient service centers 
A medical and scientific staff of more than 600 M.D.s and Ph.D.s
Logistics capabilities, that include approximately 3,750 courier vehicles and 25 aircraft that collectively make tens of thousands of stops daily
Offers physicians a test menu that is industry leading in breadth and innovation.  Our test menu ranges from routine biological tests to complex and specialized molecular and gene-based testing as well as anatomic pathology 
Provides a broad range of solutions for employers, including workplace drug testing for employers and government agencies; the Blueprint for Wellness employee wellness service; and risk assessment services for the life insurance industry
Publishes original research in peer reviewed publications, at medical and scientific conferences, and as a public service. Quest Diagnostics Health Trends reports examine trends in diseases based on the company’s United States database. Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (DTI) reports examine trends in workplace drug testing, and have been considered a benchmark for U.S. workforce drug positivity trends since 1988 

Recognition

Named to Fortune Magazine's 2019 World's Most Admired Companies list in the Health Care industry category of "Pharmacy and Other Services" for the third consecutive year
Among FORTUNE® Magazine's 2018 Fortune 500® companies
Ranked on the Forbes® 2018 Global 2000
Ranked on the “Barron’s 500” list of top-performing large companies for 2017
Named a member of the Dow Jones® Sustainability World and North America indexes since 2004 (DJSI World) and 2005 (DJSI North America). The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index represents the top 10% of the leading sustainability companies out of the biggest 2,500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index
Earned a place on the annual Newsweek Green Rankings, for the fourth consecutive year on the 2017 U.S. list
Consistently named one of the best places to work in U.S. business journal rankings, including Forbes® 2018 America's Best Large Employers 
Achieved Cancer Gold Standard™ accreditation from the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, recognizing our important actions to reduce the cancer risk of employees and their families
Received a rating of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign on the 2018 Corporate Equality Index, earning the distinction of being a "Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality"
Named a DiversityInc Noteworthy Company for the second consecutive year in 2018

Read more about awards and honors.

Read more about our Reputation Honors and Corporate Social Responsibility programs.

Products and Services

Diagnostics information services
Clinical trials
Healthcare IT
Wellness & risk management
Drug Screening 

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Operations

Headquarters in the U.S.: 500 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094  
Approximately 2,200 patient locations and dozens of clinical laboratories throughout the U.S. 
In addition to the U.S., Quest Diagnostics operates clinical laboratories in laboratory facilities in Gurgaon, India; Heston, England; Mexico City, Mexico; and San Juan, Puerto Rico 

 

 

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