Principal Automation Engineer (Remote)

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives- where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your work saves lives

The Principal Engineer, Automation will work within the automation team analyzing tests and automating features through the application stack. As a Principal Engineer, you wil solve difficult framework-wide problems, provide guidance to other specialists on their technical issues, and own the direction of automation for the product line.

This can position can be located anywhere in the continental United States (Remote/Virtual).

Your Team

While everyone at Baxter has a shared passion for our mission, the R&D teams play a meaningful role in our ability to save and sustain lives. Scientists and engineers in R&D work together to develop, test, and launch products that improve patient care.

Baxter's Voalte Mobile software solutions focus on being the best communication and collaboration tools for healthcare care teams. The product offering has multiple mobile applications, web applications, and server applications.

What you'll be doing

• Work inside of a collaborative team, alongside other engineers, testers, UX designers, and Product Managers.
• Identifies technical problems, provides innovative, creative solutions; shares technical knowledge with team.
• Incorporates business, market, industry and competitive knowledge into technical solutions that can be readily adapted to changes in technology and/or clinical use.
• Generates alternatives and takes reasonable risks while solving technical problems.
• Completes detailed, high quality technical documentation to capture and communicate designs.
• Seeks knowledge of the business, market, industry and competitive environment.
• Challenges project teams and established work processes and proactively finds creative methods to reach desired performance levels
• Informs others proactively about developments or issues that affect their work, and their ability to meet commitments.
• Other duties may be assigned.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or local equivalent of same.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Proficient in C# or Java
• Experience testing mobile applications
• Experience testing N-tier applications and writing functional tests at each layer
• Experience working with Selenium and Appium
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Scrum team environment.
• Strong Interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with others in a team environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all our employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end, this position has a base salary range of $68,000 to $156,000 plus an annual incentive bonus. The above range represents the expected base salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic/office location.

The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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Reasonable Accommodations

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