Senior manager, Quality Engineering Lead - Research & Development

Job Description

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering Lead - Research & Development

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management, engineering, and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists' ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our Company's IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.

A Quality Engineer primary focus is the creation of automated test scripts which will fulfill identified testing scope. A Software Quality Engineer will align with Automation best practices and standards, peer review process, and test design techniques.

A Quality Engineer will evaluate complex technical data, develop strategic recommendations, and resolve advanced technical issues; work with other groups on project-wide efforts; show leadership in design and product direction discussions.

What will you do in this role

• Automated Test Case creation and design (technical and functional requirements)
• Project Test Scenario Development for UI and API/integration components
• Designing and complying with Test Case Designing best practices at our company.
• Provide testing section content for D&TP or equivalent document Project
• Environment Request Management
• Test Data Management / Creation
• Coordination / Interface testing coordination with different stakeholders
• Coordination of Test Data across the End-to-End solution
• Requirement Reviews
• Create/Update Requirement Traceability Matrix

What should you have

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• Good Understanding of Quality Engineering principles and CI/CD DevOps implementation
• 7+ year of technical experience in code development language such as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Groovy. with experience in Robot Framework
•  Experience with model-based automation tools such as TOSCA, Worksoft, etc.
• Experience in Java, Selenium/Web driver & Cucumber frameworks Database testing such as
• Experience in API and mobile testing
• 1+ year experience in automated test case development, test data management and modularization.
• 1+ year experience in test management tools such as HP ALM, JIRA, VersionOne, Rally, etc.

Good to have Skills :

• Experience in Quality Engineering principles for quality controls by test type injection in a CI/CD pipeline
• Experience in CI/CD DevOps implementation and integration by maintaining code repository and build Jenkins jobs for CI/CD process.
• Experience with Robot Framework and TOSCA for automation tools
• Experience with Performance testing tools such as Performance Center (loadrunner) and JMeter

Technologies

Java, J2EE, Python, Groovy, JIRA, Junit, TestNG, Eclipse SOAPUI Pro, Jenkins, GIT, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid, TOSCA, Robot Framework, JIRA, ALM, SQL, Oracle DB, and related tools

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

06/30/2025

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