[Hiring] Scientific QA - User Testing @Dotmatics

Role Description

As a Manual Exploratory Tester (User Testing), you will play a critical role in validating the quality of our Luma platform. You will focus on exploratory/user testing—investigating new features, workflows, and edge cases to uncover unexpected behaviours and usability issues. You’ll work closely with developers, product owners, and automation engineers to ensure defects are caught early, well-documented, and resolved quickly.

A background in science (chemistry, biology, or related field) is required as you will understand the scientific workflows and real-world use cases of our customers.

• Conduct exploratory and manual testing (UAT) across web-based applications within the Luma platform.
• Develop tests/exploratory test guides to ensure business requirements are met and provide detailed feedback to design/product.
• Validate new features, integrations, and scientific workflows, ensuring functionality aligns with product requirements and user expectations.
• Log clear, reproducible bug reports and collaborate with developers for quick resolution.
• Provide critical feedback on usability, scientific workflow efficiency, and overall user experience.
• Collaborate with automation engineers to identify areas suitable for automated coverage and review assertions.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness activities.
• Advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Education or significant work experience in Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, or similar scientific field.
• Experience as a User Tester, Scientific Application administrator/owner, Software Tester, QA Analyst/User Testing, with a strong focus on exploratory testing.

Requirements

• Education or working experience in a Scientific environment using scientific software (being at an admin level is ideal).
• Knowledge of Biologic/Scientific workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with curiosity to probe beyond obvious test cases.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to spot inconsistencies, edge cases, and usability issues.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for clear bug reporting and collaboration.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams with developers, product managers, and automation engineers.

Benefits

• Dynamic, remote-friendly environment.
• Collaborative global team.
• Opportunity to have a tangible impact on scientific progress and discovery.

Company Description

At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics, and Virscidian.

We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research. Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.

Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform.