[Apply in 3 Minutes] Manager, Software Quality Engineer

5 days ago


Hyderabad India MSD Full time

Job Description

Job Description

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

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Manager, Software Quality 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.
- Lead an Organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology centers 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 IT operating model, Tech centers 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 center 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 Centers.

About Us

Discover is the one-stop data and analytics marketplace where data stewards, owners, and consumers engage to publish, govern, and subscribe to data and analytics products. Our mission is to enable seamless discovery, quality assurance, lineage visibility, and secure access to data across the enterprise.

The UX Lead will join the Business Product Management team supporting the Discover Product Line, focusing on driving user-centered design and problem discovery to create impactful solutions for prioritized business problems.

Position Overview

We are seeking a senior Test Automation / Platform QA engineer with strong data-platform experience.

Key Responsibilities

- Translate platform requirements and runbooks into comprehensive, traceable test cases covering system configuration, integrations, performance/scalability, and DR/upgrade scenarios.
- Implement and maintain automated tests using Robot Framework and Python (custom keywords/libraries), interacting with APIs, CLIs, and UIs.
- Build and run integration and end-to-end tests validating data flows across databases, object stores, message queues, and compute backends (Spark, Kubernetes).
- Design and execute performance/load tests, measure response times, throughput, and resource usage, and detect regressions.
- Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for gated releases and automated validation.
- Create repeatable test environments with IaC (Terraform, Helm), Docker, and Kubernetes for local, staging, and cloud.
- Validate security configurations (authentication/SSO, RBAC, secrets management, network policies) and logging/monitoring integrations.
- Triage, document, and track defects; collaborate with platform engineers and SREs to verify fixes.
- Maintain test documentation, runbooks, dashboards, and promote testing best practices across a global team.
- Estimate testing effort for new capabilities, provide expert guidance to stakeholders, and mentor team members to foster continuous learning.

Qualifications

Education

- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any technology stream.

Experience and Skills 3+ years in

- Hands-on administration experience with Dataiku, Posit (RStudio) or equivalent platforms.
- Experience with authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, SAML, LDAP), secrets management (Vault), and network/security configuration in cloud environments.
- Experience writing infrastructure-as-code to provision reproducible test environments.
- Knowledge of job orchestration tools (Airflow, Luigi, Prefect) and how they integrate with data platforms.
- Expert knowledge of either AWS cloud eco system, including storage services, database services, streaming and messaging services, AI/ML, and cognitive services, scalability services such as EKS.
- Familiarity with Agile principles and experience using JIRA for project management.

Technical Skills

- Languages Python (required), Bash/shell scripting.
- Test Automation Robot Framework (required); familiarity with pytest a plus.
- Cloud AWS/GCP/Azure basics; storage and networking concepts.
- Containers & Orchestration Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
- Infrastructure as Code Terraform, Helm charts.
- Performance Testing Locust, JMeter, or custom load tooling.
- Observability Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, tracing basics.
- Datastores & Integrations SQL, NoSQL, S3/GCS, message queues.
- CI/CD Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.

Behavioral Competencies

- Detail-oriented with strong systems thinking.
- Ability to collaborate across platform engineers, SREs, and data science teams.
- Proactive ownership and ability to drive automation and reliability improvements.
- Comfortable in fast-moving, iterative delivery 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 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 intellectually curious, join usand start making your impact today.

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Shift

Valid Driving License

Hazardous Material(s)

Job Posting End Date

10/15/2025

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Requisition ID R368107



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