Manager, Test Automation Engineering

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Medidata: Powering Smarter Treatments and Healthier People

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of people. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 2,000+ customers and partners access the world's most trusted platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Known for its ground-breaking technological innovations, Medidata has supported more than 30,000 clinical trials and 9 million study participants. And Medidata's ongoing commitment to infusing the patient voice into trial designs and solutions is helping to create a better and more inclusive experience for all participants in clinical studies. Medidata is involved in nearly 40% of company-initiated trial starts globally, with studies conducted in more than 140 countries. More than 70% of novel drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022 were developed with Medidata software. Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com and follow us @medidata.

Our Team:

Our Software Test Engineering function runs out of London, New York, San Francisco, India & Tokyo offices. Working in an Agile environment, you will work on Medidata's next-generation clinical trial management applications. You will work as part of a agile team which has Engineering, testing, Product and Project Management that ensure we are delivering high-quality, products with an emphasis on quality and speed to market. You will participate in the execution and team adoption of testing, automation tools and best practices

Who we're looking for:

• Manage Testing team towards delivering multiple complex platform applications in and our environment.
• Understand and provide high-level test estimates for the upcoming features.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager/Project Manager/Product Manager in planning and allocating the right test capacity.
• Onboard required test methodologies and processes to refine testing and bring efficiency.
• Work with partners of multiple projects to determine the contribution that the test function can make to achieve and assure our goals.
• Ensure project risks are communicated and mitigations are taken to complete projects following the defined timelines.
• Contribute to the Programme Review & Go/No-Go Meetings providing executive summaries and creating JIRA dashboards to allow efficient decision-making towards product releases.
• Ensure the Test Strategy and Plan aligns with the product requirements.
• Ensure the integration and end-to-end automation are implemented to help deliver faster and gain confidence.
• Establish standardisation across the teams concerning automation.
• Lead and contribute to design discussions about test frameworks and test scripts.
• Ensure the team builds meaningful test data sets based on real-world production data that mimics how our customers use our products.
• Work with the team to enhance the automation framework to increase the reliability, usability and performance of the automated solution.
• Manage, mentor and devise individual development plans for direct reports
• Key contributor to a global, multicultural distributed testing and quality engineering team

Requirements:

• Technical skills in Software development processes, testing methodologies
• Experience in using the products as a user
• Functionality / technical design & related industry business processes and complement it with relevant use cases, test scenarios definition/creation.
• Knowledge of usability testing, PCS, Security, Mobile/Web, ...
• Technical Automation experience
• Deep interest in software testing and quality
• Test Management and Automation with experience of 3+ years.
• Experience working with business representatives through user acceptance testing.
• Experience working with code repositories such as GitHub.
• Experience with Test Automation tools such as Selenium/Cypress/Robot Framework.
• Experience with coding in Python/Java/JS related to Test Automation.
• Experience with API Testing concepts and Database knowledge in relational and non-relational DBs
• Must have knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Testing strategy using tools like Jenkins/Travis/GoCD.
• Can think from the user's perspective.
• Be a problem solver - find creative solutions for tough problems
• Understand the pros and cons of different implementation methodologies, including Waterfall and different flavours of Agile.
• Experience with 21 CFR Part 11 compliant testing processes

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