Senior Specialist, QE Engineer
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About the role
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 We are seeking a detail-oriented, self-organizing, self-driving, and mission-aligned Technical Analyst to join our India Tech Center. In this role, you will lead the Quality Engineering team to build a high thru put testing team. You in bring in best practices and drive testing deliverable that aligns with organizational best practices. What will you do in this role Collaborate with cross functional team to deliver final planned solution To understand the demand, expectation (scope and deliverable) and timelines To understand the changes (in testing tools, procedures and best practices), present any QE blockers and mitigation required To mentor test engineers to adopt the best practices, tool and procedure. To build and review required Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) artifacts for regulatory application (GLP or GCP) To transfer application testing knowledge, artifacts and best practices to cross functional team Technical point of contact for/Manage Test Engineers Act as a primary owner of all Testing artifacts for the company Drive use of our company approved test tool, procedures and best QE practices by the Test Engineer Manage Tester demand for company Run automation feasibility on new vendor products Screen and select any Test Engineer need Onboard new testing team members Review and approve the design and code/artifacts from Test Engineer Schedule regular sessions to keep Test Engineer up-to-speed with changes with QE COE. Support Test Engineer to resolve any BLOCKER Support with building Test scripts to handle any intermittent peaks. Test Automation and Quality Engineering Define development test strategy across unit, integration, API, UI, and end-to-end layers Build and execute automation scripts using ROBOT framework and/or TOSCA Build and execute performance test scripts using Load Runner Integrate automated tests into CI/CD with reporting and quality gates Cloud Engineering and DevOps (CI/CD) Design, build and document CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (or similar) for build, test, security scans, and deployment on AWS environment Implement guardrails: branch protection, code review workflows, quality gates, and rollback strategies Collaborate with platform teams on standardized deployment patterns, secrets management, and approvals What should you have Bachelor's in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; Master's is a plus Experience : 7+ years in a Technical Analyst or Systems Analyst or Automation Test Engineer role within technology-driven environments Primary Skills: Tools: Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio/Lucidchart, Postman/Swagger Manage a team of Testers Mission-driven mindset: motivated by impact, able to connect project work to company mission and customer outcomes Self-organizing and self-driving: able to plan work, manage priorities, remove blockers, and deliver outcomes with minimal supervision Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities Understanding of modern architectures (microservices, APIs, cloud, event-driven) Hands-on SQL; familiarity with Python or scripting is an advantage Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and SDLC best practices Tools: Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio/Lucidchart, Postman/Swagger Manage a team of Testers Test Automation Skills: Robot Framework for API/UI/E2E automation (keywords, libraries, reporting) Tosca for model-based testing (tes