Senior Specialist, Quality Engineering

Job Description

Senior. Specialist, Quality Engineering

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 Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech Centres 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 Centres.

 

Role Overview

The Senior Specialist, Quality Engineering (Front-End Testing) is responsible for validating the functionality, usability, responsiveness, and visual quality of web and digital applications across our company. This role ensures that customer-facing and internal applications deliver a consistent, reliable, and high-quality user experience across browsers, devices, and platforms.

Working closely with Product Managers, Developers, Architects, Business Analysts, and Solution Architects, the successful candidate will perform manual testing, support test automation initiatives, and contribute to quality engineering best practices across strategic platforms and digital products.

What will you do in this role

• Execute functional, regression, smoke, integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Validate web application functionality against business and technical requirements.
• Verify user interfaces against design specifications, UX standards, and responsive design requirements.
• Identify, document, and track software defects using approved testing and defect management tools.
• Perform cross-browser and cross-device testing across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms.
• Support release readiness activities and production validation testing.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve product quality and reduce production defects.
• Contribute to testing standards, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support adoption of automation and AI-assisted quality engineering practices.

What should you have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 7 years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance, or Quality Engineering.
• Experience testing modern web applications and digital user interfaces.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of functional testing, defect management, and test execution practices.
• Experience with Jira or similar quality management tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience with API testing tools and web services validation.
• Familiarity with accessibility testing standards (WCAG).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing tools and modern quality engineering platforms.

 

 

 

Primary Skills.

• Selenium

• Playwright

• Front end testing

• Web application testing

• API testing, Agile

• Jira

• Agile Methodologies

• undefined

Secondary Skills.

• AWS cloud

• Cypress

• DevOps

• CICD

 

Who we are

We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada. For more than a century, 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.

 

 

 

Additional location(s) Compensation Information:

Required Skills:

Agile Project Management, Agile Project Management, Application Testing, Atlassian JIRA, Automated Testing, Backlog Refinement, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Defects Analysis, Defect Tracking Software, Defect Tracking Tools, Design Applications, Functional Testing, Medical Device Testing, Quality Assurance Systems, Quality Engineering, Regression Testing, Scrum, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Testing Tools, Solution Architecture, Sprint Planning {+ 5 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

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Job Posting End Date:

10/22/2026

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