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Sponsorship possible
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER” (Software Developers) in TX: $135k–$158k, median $143k.
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Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 3 certified filings for “STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER” (Software Developers) in TX: $135k–$158k, median $143k. Most were filed at wage level II (33%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
· Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
· Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
· An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
· Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
· A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
· A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Our location in Irving, TX has an open opportunity for a Software Test Engineer on site daily. This role is in Core Labs Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
This Position represents test engineering throughout the Software Development Lifecycle. Position performs all the verification and validation SQA functions (test case creation and execution, exploratory testing, test plan and test report creation). Position heavily interacts with the development and quality teams to ensure the right tests are being written and executed. Position includes internal technical leadership tasks.
What You’ll Work On
• Investigate unexpected events, issues, or software bugs. Collaborate in cross-functional teams to trouble-shoot complex system-level field complaints. Report to team leadership on investigation outcome and recommend test plan. Verify fixes.
• Complete software testing and activities for development user stories within the SDLC process.
• Perform exploratory testing, system level end to end testing, develop test datasets and execute automation scripts (to ensure application software releases are of high quality). Evaluate test cases for automation suitability and execute conversion as required.
• Review System Specifications/Requirements documents, user stories and create verification test plan / cases (based on those requirements) and execute test cases. Evaluate test plan for sufficient test coverage. Ensure efficiency of test plan by identifying overlap with other testing efforts and adjust accordingly.
• Create verification and validation test plans, test reports, trace matrices and review with relevant stakeholders (dev and quality). Review other test plans and provide feedback to other users concerning potential gaps or overlaps.
• Review deliverables/activities as identified in the test plans for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and compliance.
• Provide input/feedback to development team when design inputs (system Specifications/Requirements, user stories, etc.) are being updated.
• Provide regular status reports. Use established metrics to
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