Quality Engineering Lead Research & Development

Job Description

The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management engineering and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.

Quality Engineering Lead is responsible of identifying testing coverage (testing types) depending on requirements and development approach. A QE Lead (QEL) will be involved in the agile teams understanding the testing scope providing guidance and deliverables in terms of testing strategy plan and CI/CD test type injection.

A QE Lead is responsible of CI/CD automation tool integration enforcing automation test development best practices as well as it will be responsible for script peer review process test artifacts creation defects and test management.

A QE Lead will enforce and verify QE quality floors for each testing type executed through CI/CD pipeline are met to confirm software quality is achieved in each one of the CI/CD phases.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Align to Quality Engineering standards in implementing quality engineering capabilities for continuous testing in CI/CD pipeline

• Working with the QE team through all the aspects of Quality Engineering including Test planning Estimating Test designing Test Automation Test execution and Defining & Tracking Quality metrics to ensure quality goals are met

• Ensure test automation to be injected in CI/CD pipeline

• Verify Test Execution results of CI/CD pipeline execution to confirm quality gate criteria has been met

• Collection of the project documentation necessary to complete estimates and schedules

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Business analysts Architects Developers & DevOps) on a commonly agreed process leading to higher Quality deliverables

• Establishing and evolving solid QE processes ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices

• Drive the test automation framework development for UI & API components and enable the team to embrace it

• Optimize Tosca/Robot Framework design of the test cases

• Primary responsibility is to develop any custom codes needed by automation tool Framework

Must Haves:

• 3 years experience in leading a team by providing clear instructions for script development test data management and automation best practices

• 2years experience in model-based automation tools such as TOSCA Worksoft etc.

• 3 years experiencein Java Selenium/Webdriver & Cucumber frameworks Database testing

• 2 years experience in API and mobile testing

• 3 years technicalexperience in code development language such as Java JavaScript C and Groovy. with experience in Robot Framework

• 2 years experience in Quality Engineering principles for quality controls by test type injectionin a CI/CD pipeline

• 3 years experience in testing deliverables (Test strategy Plan RTM etc.) and test management tools such as HP ALM JIRA VersionOne Rally etc.

• 1 years experience with performance testing tool such as Performance Center and JMeter

Nice to Haves:

• Experience in CI/CD DevOps implementation and integration by maintaining code repository and build Jenkins jobs for CI/CD process

• AWS and Jenkins development background

• Experience with Robot Framework and TOSCA for automation tools

• Experience with Performance testing tools such as Performance Center (loadrunner) and JMeter

Technologies:
Java J2EE Python Groovy JIRA Junit TestNG Eclipse SOAPUI Pro Jenkins GIT Selenium Web Driver Selenium Grid TOSCA Robot Framework JIRA ALM SQL Oracle DB and related tools

Our Offer:

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card

• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and other discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone company car

• Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers

• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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