Engineer & Software Tester

We are seeking an experienced Requirements Engineer and Software Tester to join our dynamic Strategy & Management (S&M) Unit of the Department of Medical Informatics (DMI). This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, eliciting LIH’s business requirements from stakeholders, creating detailed specifications, and ensuring software meets those requirements through testing and validation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in system analysis, quality assurance processes, and the ability to bridge communication gaps between technical and non-technical collaborators.

Key Accountabilities

• Elicit detailed functional and non-functional requirements from stakeholders using various techniques such as meetings, interviews, workshops, or surveys.
• Analyze gathered information to identify key system components and their relationships.
• Create comprehensive and clear requirement documents that can be understood by both technical and non-technical team members.
• Prioritize requirements based on customer needs, project constraints, and stakeholder inputs.
• Work closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to translate requirements into design specifications and test cases.
• Conduct thorough testing of software applications through functional, non-functional, and system integration testing approaches.
• Use various testing tools, standard templates and techniques (e.g., automated testing frameworks) to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Collaborate with other quality assurance specialists for continuous improvement in the testing process.
• Prepare detailed defect reports, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to fix issues.
• Actively participate in team meetings and project reviews to provide updates and discuss potential improvements or challenges.
• Foster an environment of continuous learning through self-improvement, staying up-to-date with the latest tools, techniques, and advancements in the field.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills to effectively communicate complex technical information clearly.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years experience in similar role as a Requirements Engineer, Software Tester or Business Analyst.
• Strong understanding of system analysis, requirements engineering methodologies.
• Proficient in gathering and documenting functional and non-functional requirements from stakeholders through various techniques.
• Experience with requirement specification tools (e.g., DOORS) is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, test planning and design, as well as automated and manual testing frameworks/tools such as Selenium, TestComplete, SoapUI etc.
• Familiarity in PM tools, Agile methodologies, and requirements elicitation/documentation tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) is beneficial.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail required for identifying gaps in requirement specifications and test coverage.
• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills, able to work cross-functionally within the team, with stakeholders, and other departments as needed.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while delivering high-quality results on time.
• Fluency in English (mandatory) additional language skills (French, German, Luxembourgish) are a plus.

Gender Equality

The LIH is an equal opportunities employer. We are fully committed to removing any discriminatory barrier related to gender, and not only, in recruitment and career progression of our staff. The LIH is attentive to gender representation among its leadership staff and aims to eliminate obstacles to the recruitment and promotion of female leaders and their career development.