Job Description

Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

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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 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 companys’ 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.

Role Overview:

The Senior Automation Quality Engineer will serve as the hands‑on quality engineering and automation leader across the Business Operations Technology (BOT) product line. This role is responsible not only for defining automation strategy but also designing, building, and implementing automated test solutions end‑to‑end.

This role accelerates BOT’s DevSecOps maturity by embedding automated testing deeply within CI/CD pipelines, expanding test coverage, reducing manual regression effort, and improving release confidence. The role builds, maintains, and scales our automation capabilities. The Senior Automation Quality Engineer acts as BOT’s quality ambassador—setting automation standards, centralizing best practices, and guiding product teams to adopt automation‑first delivery models.

Key Responsibilities:

Hands‑On Automation Development & Framework Ownership

• Architect, design, and implement scalable, maintainable automation frameworks for functional, regression, integration, performance, and API testing.
• Write high‑quality, maintainable automated tests using modern frameworks (e.g., Robot Framework) and programming languages.
• Build reusable automation libraries, utilities, and shared components that can be leveraged across BOT teams.
• Maintain and refactor automation code to improve reliability, stability, and execution performance.
• Ensure alignment and integration with enterprise automation platforms such as QE Test Hub for standardized execution and reporting.

Continuous Testing & DevSecOps Integration

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and own the end‑to‑end automation execution process.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to ensure robust test orchestration in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar ecosystems.
• Implement automated quality gates, test reporting dashboards, and pass/fail criteria to support release governance.
• Build and manage test data automation strategies, environment dependencies, and pipeline‑aware test configurations.

Quality Engineering Leadership & Governance

• Establish and enforce Corporate testing standards, test documentation practices, and automation conventions.
• Drive root‑cause analysis for defects and failures across automation, pipelines, and application layers; lead corrective and preventive action implementation.
• Mentor developers, QA analysts, and junior automation engineers on automation techniques, framework usage, and quality‑by‑design principles.
• Advocate for shift‑left practices and influence teams to incorporate testing early in design and requirement refinement.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to prioritize automation coverage aligned to release and architectural goals.
• Collaborate with shared services, vendor teams, and Digital SDLC governance partners to ensure compliance with enterprise testing and automation maturity expectations.
• Support teams in progressing through Digital SDLC automation maturity stages by providing hands‑on technical coaching and assessments.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience preferred.

Technical Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of Quality Engineering experience with extensive hands‑on automation development expertise.
• Strong experience writing automation code using frameworks such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured, or similar.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Java.
• Proven experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Strong understanding of API testing, data‑driven testing, distributed system validation, and mocking/stubbing strategies.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles including secure coding, dependency scanning, and automated validation of security controls.
• Ability to diagnose failures across pipelines, test environments, external integrations, and application layers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple product teams.
• Knowledge of cloud‑native architectures, microservices, and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Prior experience leading or mentoring QA/automation engineers.
• Familiarity with Digital SDLC maturity models, enterprise governance, and automated gating strategies.
• Experience collaborating with onshore/offshore teams in a distributed delivery model.

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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Job Posting End Date:

03/6/2026

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