Senior Specialist, LCS QA Engineer

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

As a Sr. QA Engineer within the Enterprise IT Legal, Compliance & Security Value Team, you will support the Compliance Product Line, delivering technology solutions for the Ethics & Compliance Office (ECO). In this role, you will lead the automated testing strategy, initially focusing on the enterprise-wide Restricted Party Screening (RPS) program. You will be responsible for architecting scalable test automation frameworks, embedding automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and driving quality and compliance across complex, integrated enterprise systems. This role goes beyond test execution — you will own the testing strategy, proactively identify gaps in coverage, champion best practices in quality engineering, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and compliance across RPS. You will also perform hands-on manual testing when automation coverage is not feasible or when rapid validation is required. You will collaborate closely with developers, Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Delivery Managers, the Product Manager, and should be ready to lead with a quality-first mindset, anticipate needs before they become roadmap items, and operate with a high degree of ownership and independence. Over time, this role may expand to lead quality assurance for additional programs and products across the broader Compliance Product Line.

What will you do in this role

·       Architect, develop, and execute automated test scripts using Python to validate the functionality, performance, and security of the RPS program and integrations across the enterprise landscape.

·       Build and maintain scalable, reusable, and reliable test automation frameworks and tools, ensuring they support the evolving complexity of the RPS integration landscape.

·       Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) to enable continuous quality assurance and rapid feedback for development teams.

·       Own and drive the overall test strategy for the RPS program, including test planning, coverage analysis, risk-based testing prioritization, and alignment with compliance requirements.

·       Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams — including developers, Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Delivery Managers, and the Product Manager — to align testing activities, requirements, and deliverables.

·       Analyze test results, identify defects, and drive timely resolution with development teams, providing clear root cause analysis and actionable recommendations.

·       Develop and maintain comprehensive test documentation, including test strategy, SDLC artifacts, test plans, test cases, and test reports in alignment with organizational standards.

·       Perform hands-on manual testing of RPS Portal and Dashboard features to validate stakeholder-driven changes, including exploratory testing and regression verification, ensuring end-to-end quality when automation coverage is not feasible or when rapid validation is required.

·       Proactively identify gaps in test coverage, propose improvements, and champion best practices in test automation and quality engineering across the delivery team.

·       Anticipate product and quality needs proactively, identifying opportunities to build tools, prototypes, or solutions ahead of formal roadmap planning — contributing to the evolution of the RPS product and broader compliance solutions.

·       Ensure compliance with internal and regulatory quality standards across all testing activities and deliverables.

·       Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and Agile ceremonies as a core RPS team member, contributing quality perspectives to planning and delivery discussions.

·       Contribute to broader Compliance Product Line initiatives as the portfolio evolves, extending quality assurance leadership to additional compliance programs and technology solutions in partnership with the Ethics & Compliance Office.

·       Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and collaborating with the Product Manager. Participate in product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and product goals.

What should you have

Primary Skills -Python based testing framework, Devops CI/CD
Secondary Skills - Performance Testing

Must Have

·       Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

·       7+ years of experience in QA engineering, with a strong focus on Python-based test automation for enterprise applications and complex, integrated systems.

·       Proven experience designing, architecting, and maintaining automated test frameworks at scale, with a track record of driving test automation strategy — not just execution.

·       Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), enabling continuous quality assurance within DevOps workflows.

·       Strong experience with manual QA processes, including test case creation, exploratory testing, and regression verification, with the ability to perform hands-on manual testing of web-based portals and dashboards.

·       Strong understanding of software development and testing methodologies (Agile/Scrum), with experience contributing quality perspectives to sprint planning and delivery discussions.

·       Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to perform root cause analysis and drive defect resolution with development teams.

·       Effective communication and collaboration abilities in a cross-functional environment, with the ability to articulate quality risks and recommendations to both technical and business audiences.

·       High degree of ownership, adaptability, self-motivation, and initiative in a dynamic environment.

Nice-to-Have / Beneficial

·       Demonstrated ability to proactively identify needs and build solutions ahead of formal requirements — anticipating product quality gaps and taking initiative to address them.

·       Experience in regulated industries (pharmaceutical, life sciences, compliance, or similar).

·       Familiarity with performance testing, security testing, or API testing for integration-heavy environments.

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 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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Required Skills:

Animal Vaccination, Automated Testing, Availability Management, Change Controls, Computer Science, Digital Technology, Digital Transformation, Incident Management, Information Technology Operations, Management System Development, Problem Management, Product Planning, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Engineering, Service Delivery, SLA Management, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Sprint Planning, Test Automation Framework, Testing

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