IT Intern, Digital Quality Engineering

Waters Corporation is always looking to hire outstanding future talent for our company. The Digital Commerce team is looking to hire a summer intern out of our Milford, MA office (Hybrid). This internship is a phenomenal opportunity to gain real-world experience while working at the world's leading specialty measurement company. This internship will last approximately ten weeks and the program will commence in the spring/summer of 2025.

Waters is laser focused on:

• Groundbreaking Life-Science Innovation: With our scientific expertise, we aim to solve problems that matter.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Our people are paramount in enabling us to solve problems that matter.
• Global Impact: With operations in over 35 countries and a global team of over 8,000, our work goes beyond the life sciences.

Click here to learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) commitment where we have the highest score of 100% rating on the 2022 Corporate Index, CEI, the annual scorecard for LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Responsibilities

As AI-generated code and content flood the digital landscape, the "human-in-the-loop" for quality has become the most important role in the building process. In this startup-paced environment, you will help us define the next generation of quality engineering.

• Architect Trust with Karate: Design and execute sophisticated API and UI automation scripts using the Karate framework, ensuring our commerce engines remain robust even as underlying code is accelerated by AI.
• Orchestrate Quality with Tricentis qTest: Manage the end-to-end testing lifecycle within Tricentis qTest, integrating automated results with manual insights to provide a single source of truth for platform health.
• Pioneer the Agentic SDLC: Work directly with our engineering team to explore how AI agents can autonomously trigger tests, analyze failures, and suggest fixes within our tech platform & CI/CD pipelines powered by AWS
• Innovate in Real-Time: Act as a core member of an agile, fast-moving team, rapidly pivoting between automated performance testing, security validation, and complex commerce workflow verification.

Qualifications

At Waters, we view the internship program as a mutually beneficial opportunity designed to equip students real world experience, while learning from industry leaders in their functional area of choice.

• Curiosity: A passion for understanding how complex systems break and an interest in how AI is changing the way we write software.
• Courage: The drive to jump into a "startup-feel" environment where you are expected to contribute code and ideas from day one.
• Compassion: A commitment to collaborative problem solving and active listening within a global team.

Qualifications specific to this role:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (Targeting rising Juniors, Seniors, or Graduate students).
• Technical Interest: Exposure to (or a strong desire to master) SDLC, AI/Agentic Engineering,  test automation
• Coding Foundation: Basic proficiency in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
• The "AI Edge": Familiarity with Generative AI tools (like Sourcegraph Coy, Amp, Cursor, Cline, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) and an interest in how they can be used to generate smarter test cases.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.