Analytical Platform Quality Assurance Engineer

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CI/CD, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Java, Robot Framework, Scala (Programming Language), Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Systematic Problem Solving, System Designs, System Integration, Technical Solution Architecture, Test Automation Tools, Test Driven Development (TDD), Testing, Test Suites

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Analytical Platform Quality Assurance Engineer

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 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

As a Platform Quality Assurance Engineer you will ensure that our analytical tools and technologies are reliable, scalable, and performant. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable solutions. You will use your expertise to design and execute tests for CI/CD pipelines, API integrations, and validate that the platform functionality meets business requirements. You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to define test plans, automate test suites, and monitor configuration drifts. You will also investigate issues, drive root-cause analysis, and recommend improvements to prevent future incidents. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Participate in defining the platform reliability and scalability standards as well as testing strategy and approach.
• Author, review, and maintain various testing scenarios and test scripts.
• Create and maintain test automation suite and execute as per project plan.
• Review testing results (based on dry runs as well as formal execution) and raise defects.
• Test analysis and coordination - requirements baselining and clarification.
• Create and maintain related System Development Lifecycle documentation.
• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product and company goals.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working with Robot Framework, Tosca or similar testing automation tools, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools and REST API.
• Good Cloud knowledge and understanding of AWS core service like  EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, Security Groups.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment. 
• Familiarity with modern product development principles – Agile, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Familiarity with development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD.
• Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Scala, Java.
• Experience with QE Test Hub, Trino, Databricks, Redshift, Grafana is a huge benefit.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

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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Job Posting End Date:

05/20/2026

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