Senior Manager, Product

Job Description

• 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 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 serve our company purpose to 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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. 

Role Overview

We are seeking exceptional individuals with outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, who can collaborate effectively across business and technical teams. As a Product Manager for Test Automation Framework, you will support our company's Quality Engineering services and capabilities. The Test Automation Framework you will lead is grounded in Robot Framework and enables automated testing in our DevOps stack. This role prioritizes product requirements, develops product roadmaps and owns the product backlog. You will be managing a team of software engineers to manage elements of the product life cycle to meet customer/user needs and achieve financial or other targets.

What will you do in this role

• Prioritize product requirements, develop product roadmaps, and own the product backlog.

• Lead a team of software engineers to handle elements of the product life cycle to meet customer/user needs and achieve financial or other targets.

• Participate all phases of System Lifecycle, ensuring alignment with both functional, compliance and project goals, working in an DevOps practice and methodology.

• Performs requirements management to include scoping, requirements, and provide constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.

What should you have

• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience working as a Product manager/owner leading a software development team to meet milestones, goals and objectives.

• 5+ years of Test Automation framework development such as Robot Framework.

• Experience leading modern product software development practices – Agile, Scrum, test driven development, from initiation to deployment.

• Provide a product and customer-centric approach with follow-up skills on active issues and responding to customer feedback to increase customer satisfaction.

• Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality.

• Familiarity with various Cloud Native services such as Azure or AWS Services

• Familiarity with AI technologies such as GPT and Copilot

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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Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

11/18/2025

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