Job Description
Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, 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, MStar, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
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.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
Dotmatics is looking for a motivated and hands-on QA Scientist with a background in molecular biology to join the SnapGene team, located in New Zealand. Prior experience in quality assurance is not required — instead, we’re looking for someone eager to apply their scientific training in a new way. You'll learn how to leverage core scientific skills like experimentation, critical thinking, and communication to ensure the delivery of high-quality software for molecular biologists.
As a QA Scientist you'll work on our widely used SnapGene and Geneious software products and play a key role in helping shape a product used daily by researchers around the world. Your scientific expertise will be essential in evaluating the accuracy, usability, and overall quality of the software. You’ll test features with a focus on how real scientists will use them and provide valuable input to both design and development teams.
In addition to hands-on testing, you'll get involved with researching new functionality — from reviewing and evaluating scientific tools and techniques, to participating in user research and gathering feedback — helping to ensure SnapGene and Geneious continue to meet the real-world needs of the molecular biology community.
This position is a hybrid position based in our Auckland office, where you’ll collaborate closely with a globally distributed development team.
In this role you’ll get to:
Plan and carry out testing of new and existing features in the software to validate results and identify usability issues.
Collaborate with the development and design teams to define practical, well-scoped requirements and guide the design of new features.
Obtain and create data sets to enable testing the software through both realistic user workflows and targeted hypothesis-based testing.
Research proposed functionality to understand the scientific and user requirements.
Advocate for the user to ensure that product design is aligned to user needs and expectations.
Work with support, marketing and product teams to create and/or review clear and useful help resources for end users.
We are looking for people who have a degree in Biology or Bioinformatics along with 2+ years of molecular biology lab experience, including molecular cloning. You should be detail-oriented, creative, communicative, and comfortable solving problems independently or collaboratively, and working through ambiguous situations.
The key skills we are looking for:
Excellent written communication - clear and concise writing is required for tasks such as documenting results of testing, writing in-app text and contributing to knowledge base content.
Attention to Detail - Ability to identify bugs in the software, ranging from incorrect analysis results to usability or consistency issues.
Wet lab experience - Apply what you know about challenges in the lab to building software that helps users avoid mistakes in their construct and experimental design.
Molecular biology / bioinformatic software experience - Some familiarity with using software, such as Geneious, SnapGene or others, for sequence design and analysis.
Literature review and recommendation - Summarise key information from the scientific literature, and make recommendations about techniques and tools.
Experimental design - Ability to apply your existing skills in experimental design to the design of scenarios for testing.
Scientific communication - break down scientific workflows to help developers and designers without a scientific background understand key information.
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
At Dotmatics, 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, MStar, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
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.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
Dotmatics is looking for a motivated and hands-on QA Scientist with a background in molecular biology to join the SnapGene team, located in New Zealand. Prior experience in quality assurance is not required — instead, we’re looking for someone eager to apply their scientific training in a new way. You'll learn how to leverage core scientific skills like experimentation, critical thinking, and communication to ensure the delivery of high-quality software for molecular biologists.
As a QA Scientist you'll work on our widely used SnapGene and Geneious software products and play a key role in helping shape a product used daily by researchers around the world. Your scientific expertise will be essential in evaluating the accuracy, usability, and overall quality of the software. You’ll test features with a focus on how real scientists will use them and provide valuable input to both design and development teams.
In addition to hands-on testing, you'll get involved with researching new functionality — from reviewing and evaluating scientific tools and techniques, to participating in user research and gathering feedback — helping to ensure SnapGene and Geneious continue to meet the real-world needs of the molecular biology community.
This position is a hybrid position based in our Auckland office, where you’ll collaborate closely with a globally distributed development team.
In this role you’ll get to:
Plan and carry out testing of new and existing features in the software to validate results and identify usability issues.
Collaborate with the development and design teams to define practical, well-scoped requirements and guide the design of new features.
Obtain and create data sets to enable testing the software through both realistic user workflows and targeted hypothesis-based testing.
Research proposed functionality to understand the scientific and user requirements.
Advocate for the user to ensure that product design is aligned to user needs and expectations.
Work with support, marketing and product teams to create and/or review clear and useful help resources for end users.
We are looking for people who have a degree in Biology or Bioinformatics along with 2+ years of molecular biology lab experience, including molecular cloning. You should be detail-oriented, creative, communicative, and comfortable solving problems independently or collaboratively, and working through ambiguous situations.
The key skills we are looking for:
Excellent written communication - clear and concise writing is required for tasks such as documenting results of testing, writing in-app text and contributing to knowledge base content.
Attention to Detail - Ability to identify bugs in the software, ranging from incorrect analysis results to usability or consistency issues.
Wet lab experience - Apply what you know about challenges in the lab to building software that helps users avoid mistakes in their construct and experimental design.
Molecular biology / bioinformatic software experience - Some familiarity with using software, such as Geneious, SnapGene or others, for sequence design and analysis.
Literature review and recommendation - Summarise key information from the scientific literature, and make recommendations about techniques and tools.
Experimental design - Ability to apply your existing skills in experimental design to the design of scenarios for testing.
Scientific communication - break down scientific workflows to help developers and designers without a scientific background understand key information.
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The QA Scientist | SnapGene position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Auckland offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.
