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When you describe you are someone with experience in or just simply experience?

Looking for someone with experience in testing lab animals.

Or just simply

Looking for someone with experience testing lab animals.

I've seen both and I prefer the one with "in", but I'm not sure if one is better than the other.

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You use in when saying experience in [field] and with when saying experience with [task].

We're looking for someone who has experience with testing lab animals.

We're looking for someone who has experience in Laboratory Research.

However you can leave out the with in your example if you want, because it is implied.

We're looking for someone who has experience testing lab animals.

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    One other option: you can also move the area of expertise in front of the word experience, as in: "We are looking for someone with C++ programming experience," or "We are looking for someone with animal testing experience in a laboratory setting."
    – J.R. ♦
    Aug 23, 2013 at 9:15

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