Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job Title: ERV Business Test Engineer
Career Level - D
Introduction to role
The ERV Test Engineer is accountable for delivering business testing for agreed system and configuration releases within the RIM / ERV platform.
The ERV Business Test Engineer is a business-side role, working in close collaboration with the business and IT members of the Regulatory Platform team to deliver business testing for changes to the ERV platform, ensuring the continuous improvement of the platform from the business perspective within the IT platform model. This role is performed by RIM Managers.
Context: Enterprise Regulatory Vault (ERV) is AstraZeneca's business-wide system for Regulatory Information Management (RIM). As a data-centric cloud / SaaS platform it enables compliance with current regulatory requirements and can evolve to meet future needs. This flexibility brings many benefits, but also the key challenge of a steadfast cycle of incremental and continual changes that requires ongoing investment of time and resources to ensure AZ improve utility and enables automation, digitization and agility to meet future needs.
The ERV Business Test Engineer works in Global Regulatory Operations (GRO), which is accountable for business ownership of ERV, ensuring it is optimally developed, maintained, governed and supported across the enterprise to meet scientific, business and compliance needs.
Accountabilities :
Conducting business testing (User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Verification testing) for ERV, inclusive of major platform releases, minor releases and report releases
Crafting, authoring and updating test scripts to validate ERV against user stories and business process
Writing and editing test scripts that follow the business processes (per the user story or change control)
Set up of test data and test pre-conditions
Supporting the execution of test scripts
Providing support to enable test volunteers
Provide analysis and recommendations against test executions and test results
Handling issues and bugs and ensuring their resolution and re-testing
Ensure test results have been appropriately documented
Conducting test impact assessments:
Assessing user stories, change requests and functional risk assessments
Identify impact on existing scripts
Provide time required estimates for script updates, data preparation and script execution
Experienced use of the following key tools:
Jira / X-Ray for leading user stories, conducting testing, receiving assignments, issue resolution, raising and resolving bugs
Excel to plan test cases, define data and connect to Visio workflows
Project planning tools (e.g. Excel, MS Project, Smartsheet)
Anticipating, documenting and addressing (or mitigating) issues and risks related to testing and, where appropriate, bringing up to test lead
Develop expertise in ERV system and provide support to the Training, Change and Communications lead and Change Release Managers
Contributing to the improvement of an effective test approach to ensure an efficient, risk based validation of the ERV system
Establishing and leading a traceability matrix to link test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts to user stories, ensuring full coverage and traceability throughout the testing process
Regular communication and status reporting ensuring test lead has an up to date picture of test activity progress
Essential Skills/Experience:
Experience authoring and driving UAT (user acceptance test) scripts
Experience interpreting business user stories (aka requirements) and translating to test scripts
Experience with system development lifecycle of validated systems / platforms within a regulated environment
Experience in agile system development and working within a global team
Fluent in written and verbal English
Desirable Skills/Experience :
Experience working with GxP regulated systems within the biopharmaceutical industry
Experience with Veeva Vault applications, preferably the Veeva Regulatory Suite
Knowledge of Regulatory Information Management systems and practices
Professional qualification in software testing, e.g. ISTQB/ISEB Foundation certification
Previous experience with AstraZeneca
Ability to build relationships across, cultures, functions and fields to deliver a quality service
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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