Senior Specialist, Tester at Merck

Job Description Required Skills:

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs, System Integration, Testing, TOSCA Testsuite

Preferred Skills:

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• 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 company’s 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 Test Automation Engineer is a high-impact individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks across functional, regression, performance, and AI-assisted testing domains. This role requires both deep technical depth— hands-on coding, CI/CD pipeline integration, and framework engineering — and strategic breadth, including test planning, toolchain governance, and mentoring junior QA engineers.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with industry-standard tools such as Robot Framework, Tosca, Xray, JIRA, HP ALM/QC, and GitHub, and is actively exploring or applying AI/ML in test automation workflows. You are someone who treats quality as a first-class engineering concern and can work seamlessly across Agile, SAFe, and DevOps delivery models.

Key Responsibilities

• Automation Framework Engineering:

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks using Robot Framework, Tosca, Selenium, and API testing tools across web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

• AI-Augmented Testing:

Integrate AI/ML capabilities into the test automation lifecycle — including intelligent test generation, self-healing scripts, anomaly detection, and predictive failure analysis.

• Test Case Design & Documentation:

Author comprehensive manual and automated test cases aligned to business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria; maintain test repositories in Xray and HP ALM.

• Regression Testing:

Own and execute end-to-end regression suites; triage failures, root-cause defects, and ensure suite health across sprint boundaries and major releases.

• Load & Performance Testing:

Design and execute load, stress, soak, and spike tests using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6; analyze results and recommend optimizations.

• CI/CD Integration:

Embed automated test suites into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent pipelines; manage branching strategies and test artifact versioning in GitHub.

• Manual & Exploratory Testing:

Execute structured and exploratory manual testing for complex scenarios, edge cases, and new feature validation where automation coverage is nascent.

• Test Management & Reporting:

Manage test cycles, track coverage, and generate quality metrics in JIRA, Xray, and HP ALM/QC; present testing status and risk to stakeholders.

• Toolchain Strategy:

Evaluate, recommend, and implement testing tools and frameworks; establish standards, guidelines, and best practices across the QA function.

• Mentorship & Collaboration:

Coach junior and mid-level QA engineers; collaborate with developers, product managers, and architects to embed quality early in the development cycle.

Experience Requirements:

Years Area Focus Detail8+

Software QA / Test Engineering

Total professional experience across SDLC roles

Proven track record delivering quality across multiple product lines, platforms, or domains in an enterprise or high-growth environment

5+

Test Automation

Hands-on framework design and scripting

Must have authored and maintained production-grade automation frameworks — not just modified existing ones

3+

Robot Framework or Tosca:

Primary automation tooling

Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one; working knowledge of both is strongly preferred

3+

API & Integration Testing:

REST / SOAP / GraphQL

Experience designing API test suites, contract testing, and service virtualization

3+

Performance Testing

JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent

End-to-end ownership: script creation, execution, result analysis, and findings presentation

2+

AI in Testing:

Applied, not theoretical

Demonstrable use of AI tools in production testing workflows — test generation, visual AI, self-healing, or intelligent analysis

2+

JIRA + Xray or HP ALM

Test management at scale

Managing full test cycles, traceability matrices, and reporting dashboards; both tools preferred

2+

CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps

Embedding test gates into pipelines; managing test artifacts, environments, and parallel execution

Preferred Qualifications

• ISTQB Advanced Level certification (Test Automation Engineer or Test Manager track)
• Tosca Automation Specialist (AS1 / AS2) certification
• Experience testing SAP, Salesforce, or other enterprise ERP/CRM platforms
• Background in security testing fundamentals (OWASP, DAST/SAST integration)
• Accessibility testing knowledge (WCAG 2.1, axe, screen reader validation)
• Prior experience in a QA Lead or Principal Engineer capacity — mentoring, strategy, roadmap ownership
• Familiarity with contract testing tools such as Pact for microservice validation
• Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, pharma) with GxP or SOX compliance requirements
• Contribution to open-source testing tools or active presence in the testing community (blogs, talks, repos)

Education & Certifications:

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
• Equivalent experience in lieu of formal degree considered for candidates with exceptional track records

CERTIFICATIONS (PREFERRED)

• ISTQB Foundation or Advanced Level
• Tosca Automation Specialist (AS1 / AS2)
• AWS / Azure / GCP Cloud Practitioner or Associate
• Certified Agile Tester (CAT) or similar Agile QA credential

Tools & Tech Stack

CORE / REQUIRED TOOLS

Robot Framework• Tricentis Tosca• JIRA• Xray (Test Management)• HP ALM / QC• GitHub / GitHub Actions • Selenium Web Driver • Postman • Apache JMeter • Python • SQL • Git

PERFORMANCE & LOAD TESTING

Apache JMeter• Gatling • k6 • Load Runner • Blaze Meter • Grafana / InfluxDB

AI & INTELLIGENT TESTING

Applitools Eyes • Testim • mabl • Functionize • Diffblue Cover • GitHub Copilot • ChatGPT / Claude (Prompting)

ADDITIONAL & PREFERRED

Playwright • Cypress • Rest Assured • Jenkins • Docker • Kubernetes • Browser Stack • Confluence • Zephyr Scale • Test Rail • Allure Reports • Sonar Qube • Azure DevOps • Slack / Teams

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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Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

05/13/2026

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