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 organization 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:

We are seeking a highly motivated Quality Engineer to support quality assurance activities across enterprise applications with a focus on the Veeva platform . The successful candidate will be responsible for translating business requirements into detailed test scenarios and test scripts, executing functional and non-functional testing, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions that meet business and regulatory expectations.

The Quality Engineer will work closely with product managers, business analysts, developers, architects, and delivery teams to validate requirements, identify defects, and support end-to-end testing activities. This role will also provide hands-on support for Veeva configuration testing, integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Key Responsibilities:

Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements and convert them into comprehensive test cases and test scripts.

Design, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test assets.

Perform end-to-end testing across applications, integrations, and business processes.

Validate functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, usability, security, and reliability considerations.

Support testing activities related to Veeva platform configurations, workflows, security models, and integrations.

Collaborate with developers, product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery leads to ensure quality objectives are met.

Identify, document, track, and verify defects through resolution.

Participate in requirement reviews, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release readiness activities.

Develop and maintain test plans, test execution reports, and quality metrics.

Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and business validation efforts.

Ensure compliance with SDLC, validation, and quality standards in regulated environments.

Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives for testing processes, tools, and methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

3+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Testing, or Quality Engineering.

Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.

Experience creating and executing test cases, test scripts, and test plans.

Hands-on experience with defect management and test management tools.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and globally distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with Veeva Vault , including configuration and validation testing.

Understanding of life sciences, pharmaceutical, regulatory, clinical, quality, or R&D business processes.

Experience testing APIs, integrations, and data flows between enterprise systems.

Knowledge of GxP, CSV (Computer System Validation), and regulated environments.

Familiarity with test automation frameworks and automated testing tools.

Experience supporting cloud-based SaaS platforms.

Technical Skills

Test Planning and Test Execution

Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and UAT Testing

Defect Management and Root Cause Analysis

Veeva Vault Testing and Configuration Validation

Requirements Traceability

API and Integration Testing

Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Quality Assurance Best Practices

Test Documentation and Reporting

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 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:

Business Intelligence (BI), Business Intelligence (BI), Civil Engineering Project Management, Customer Specific Requirements, Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Engineering Collaboration, Information Management, Manufacturing, Product Delivery, Product Management, Product Requirements, Product Validation, Quality Compliance, Quality Engineering, Quality Inspections, Requirements Management, Sensors, Setting Performance Standards, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) {+ 5 more}

Preferred Skills:

Test Case Design, Test Scenarios, User Acceptance

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