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: Senior Engineer - Testing
Career Level - D1
YOE - 6 to 8 Years
Introduction to role
Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
Accountabilities
Lead and coordinate activities with data source application owners to ensure integration, data integrity, and data quality. Maintain and handle test documentation for data warehousing and ETL processes.
Be an SME, assume lead SQA role and ownership of the application under test in terms of data quality.
Ensure the business intelligence dashboard/ dossier is delivered to the customers meeting their expectations at the right time as per the agreed SLA.
Coordinate with upstream/downstream application teams and the key stakeholders for any data issues, outages or impact arising due to any changes.
Ensure that thorough impact analysis and testing are carried out for any upstream changes impacting the application.
Accountable for job monitoring like airflow, execution, troubleshoot any issues, identify the root cause and report any bugs as and when required.
Accountable for functional performance of QA function aligned to Information Management platform portfolio.
Effectively coach, provide guidance to QA staff aligned with assigned platform portfolio.
Insert leadership with AD technical leads, AD tower leads, 3rd party vendor.
Business process knowledge sufficient to understand the technology changes resulting in a test strategy that can be applied to one or more platform QA services aligned with the assigned platform portfolio.
Effectively communicate, negotiate and influence release-train stakeholders (PM, Development Lead, Service Lead, Users) to ensure alignment with test approach and execution that represents "best fit" of effort, benefit, and cost.
Facilitate Information Management platform reviews of innovation, practice improvements, and drive improvements consistency across all platforms within assigned portfolio.
Apply platform-specific test strategies. For example, platform-aligned KPIs, metrics like AD to Test ratio; FTE and Contractor ratio; etc.
Establish and manage the execution of QA roadmap - drive innovation, improvements across QA team.
In partnership with Platform Release Managers, Project Managers, SDC leads - establish productivity benchmarks for QA staff functionally reporting into Commercial IT SQA Manager.
Essential Skills/Experience
Hands-on experience in AWS Services like EMR, S3, Athena, RDS, Redshift, etc. is required
Querying knowledge using SQL is a must.
Knowledge of the BI Reporting tool (MicroStrategy) and scheduling tools (Airflow preferably)
Python knowledge is desirable.
6+ years of hands-on SQA and Testing experience
3+ years experience managing team size of 4-8 QA engineers and working with product cross-functional teams in a leadership role using agile/iterative development methods
Experience in Agile and with agile teams using methodologies such as SCRUM and SAFe
Proven track record to work independently in a dynamic, fast-moving environment
Confidently communicate and interpersonal skills to effectively engage SQA staff, senior stakeholders, in urgent or critical situations
Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, Automated Testing Tools
Experience with capacity management, SQA service management, SQA service, and operational metrics
Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, test planning, system dependencies, and product integration phases.
Extensive experience with software test lifecycle management
Demonstrated ability to own problems and propose realistic, meaningful solutions
Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles
At AstraZeneca, we are shaping our digital journey by uniting our technologies, tools, and platforms with our collective expertise. This allows us to drive our transformational journey forward and make better data decisions. We are committed to leveraging our leading technologies and exploring data to achieve improved outcomes faster. Our diverse team of specialists is empowered to innovate and express their ideas freely. We continuously expand our knowledge through a two-way feedback loop and novel roles. Everything we do is aimed at positively impacting patients across the world.
Join us now to make a difference! Apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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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