Validation Specialist

Job Description

Global LIMS Validation Specialist

Validation

Specialist, Technical Product Management

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:

Global LIMS Validation Specialist

Join us and be part of our dedicated team that provides support for our Laboratories to improve efficiency, reporting and compliance while improving LIMS Platform stability and useability. This opportunity will also involve working on our Laboratory Transformation program which is a multi-year, phased approach to streamline and standardize our QC labs to prepare each site to a level playing field of maturity for full digitalization.

Responsibilities:

•Create and/or support the execution of Development Testing (DT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Test Scripts

•Create Test Summary Documents

•Identify and Report test and system defects.

•Create and Update validation deliverables such as Requirements, Risk Assessments, Trace Matrices and Test Plans.

•Develop and maintain good Labware product knowledge

•Willingness and ability to collaborate/communicate with the Global LIMS Team and Quality Stakeholders.

Qualifications

•Bachelor's degree or equivalent and a minimum of 1 years making a difference in a Pharmaceutical, Scientific, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics field.

•Experience in software testing, preferably Labware LIMS.

•Familiarity with testing tools and methods e.g. JIRA, Microsoft Teams, etc.

•Strong analytic, critical thinking and problem-solving skills

•Attention to detail.

•Strong writing and documentation creation skills

•Self-motivated

•Familiarity with Agile Methodologies.

•Experience in Pharma Industry with knowledge of cGMP and Laboratory processes.

•Good Communication Skills including fluency in English

Who we are
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and 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.

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Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

05/28/2026

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