Senior QA Automation Engineer

Description

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.

Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:

• Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
• Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
• MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
• Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
• The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

Have you wondered how life-saving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed, and available to needy patients? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted on a global scale? How do governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug and how a care provider determines the proper treatment for a given patient? If yes, Norstella could be the next step in your career.

In this role, you work with internal and external developers responsible for the development and subsequent support of the various platform services components underpinning all the customer-facing applications across Norstella. As part of a large technology group, you work with product management, architecture, and other software engineering teams to support the product development roadmap.

We are looking for an experienced individual with excellent communication skills, deep experience in software engineering, and, most importantly, the ability and willingness to keep learning in this ever-changing technology landscape.

• Build end‐to‐end testing toolchains for our products' functional, non-functional, performance, usability, and security testing.

• Ensuring the quality and reliability of our web and mobile applications, including iOS platforms. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining manual and automated test scripts.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and other QA engineers, to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality software products.

• Stay current with industry trends, technology, and best practices in automation testing and quality assurance and prepare and present training as applicable.

• Work with teams and leadership to effectively work in a high‐volume, rapid delivery, agile environment, utilizing a "shift left mentality" to implement a lean model.

• 5+ years as SDET
• A minimum of 5 years of experience focusing on automation testing and scripting
• Excellent Manual, Functional Testing and testing automation with prior experience in Agile Product Development and Agile QA

• Must have experience implementing automation testing into CI/CD Pipelines.

• Automation Scripting: JavaScript/TypeScript or Python

• Web automation Testing Tool: PlayWright/Selenium/WebDriver IO
• Cucumber / Gherkin
• SQL skills
• CI/CD in Test Automation: ADO/Jenkins/GHA or similar
• JIRA/Azure DevOps
• K6 performance tool
• Performance testing
• Security testing
• AWS: ECS/ EKS, RDS, S3
• Containers Orchestration: Docker, K8s

• Health Insurance
• Provident Fund
• Life Insurance
• Reimbursement of Certification Expenses
• Gratuity
• 24x7 Health Desk

01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First

We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.

02: Integrity, Truth, Reality

We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn't. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.

03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace

We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.

04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance

We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.

05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning

We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.

Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people's differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual's abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.

Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we're just as excited about you.