Senior Test Automation Engineer

Job Description Senior Test Automation Engineer

City: Augsburg

Country/Region: Germany

State:

Business Area: R&D

Department: Test & Verification, S&E

Employment Type: Full-time

Req ID: 10461

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Are you passionate about software quality and test automation? Do you enjoy developing automated tests, improving regression coverage, and applying your technical expertise within a highly skilled engineering team? Are you motivated by mentoring colleagues, driving technical excellence, and helping teams continuously improve the way they work?

The Test & Verification team at Ambu is looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to help ensure the quality and reliability of our innovative medical software products.

This role combines hands-on test automation development with senior technical responsibility. You will be a key contributor to the development and maintenance of our automated regression test suites while sharing your expertise, helping shape best practices, and supporting colleagues working with test automation across teams.

In addition, you will support agile ways of working within a small and highly collaborative team by facilitating selected team activities and helping drive continuous improvement initiatives when needed.

Based at our Innovation Hub in Augsburg, you will work in a hybrid setup with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home. We believe that regular in-person collaboration fosters stronger teamwork, faster problem-solving, and meaningful knowledge sharing, while still providing flexibility and work-life balance.

We are building the next generation of medical software and connected medical devices, and we need a colleague who sees test automation as an engineering discipline, values quality, and enjoys working in an international environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning are key to success.

Key Responsibilities

You will play a key role in strengthening Ambus automated testing capabilities while actively contributing to the development and execution of automated tests for our software products.

Your responsibilities include:

Acting as a senior technical contributor within automated regression testing and sharing expertise with colleagues across the Test & Verification team.

Driving a unified test automation effort across products and teams, building and maintaining a scalable test automation ecosystem with balanced coverage from atomic tests through component, integration, and system tests to end-to-end workflows.

Developing, maintaining, and executing automated regression tests for software-driven medical devices.

Driving improvements in test automation practices, test coverage, and test reliability.

Providing technical guidance, mentoring, and expertise to colleagues working with automated testing.

Reviewing automated test implementations and promoting best practices across projects.

Supporting test planning, test execution, defect investigation, and root-cause analysis.

Working closely with Software Development and Test & Verification colleagues to ensure new functionality is adequately covered by automated tests.

Collaborating with international engineering teams to continuously improve automation frameworks, tooling, and testing approaches.

Contributing to improvements of test environments, tools, and automation practices.

Supporting software verification activities throughout the development lifecycle.

Generating and maintaining verification evidence and docu