Job Description
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Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs
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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 companys’ 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
A Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of data pipelines, backend systems, and frontend applications within the DI Platform. They design and execute comprehensive test strategies that validate end-to-end data flows, system integrations, and user-facing functionality. Test Engineers collaborate closely with data engineers, developers, analysts, and product teams to identify defects early, drive continuous improvement, and ensure that all deliverables meet the highest quality standards.
Key tasks include manual and automated testing, data validation, API and UI testing, integration testing, regression testing, and establishing quality metrics and documentation. Test Engineers play a crucial role in enabling data-driven decision-making by ensuring the accuracy, availability, and consistency of data across the organization, while also safeguarding the usability and stability of the frontend interfaces.
What will you do in this role
• Design, develop, and maintain comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases for data pipelines, backend services, and frontend applications.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and performance testing across the entire DI platform.
• Validate data ingestion, transformation, and loading processes to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Test data pipelines populating data lakes and data warehouses.
• Perform frontend testing to ensure correct data representation, UI functionality, usability, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Collaborate closely with data engineers, frontend developers, product owners, and business teams to understand requirements and define test scenarios aligned with business goals.
• Automate test cases for backend APIs, data validation, and frontend applications to improve test coverage and efficiency.
• Use monitoring and logging tools to validate system behavior and identify potential risks and defects early.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects using defect tracking tools and ensure timely resolution.
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated tests into build and deployment processes.
• Ensure platform stability, reliability, scalability, and performance through continuous testing.
• Maintain detailed test documentation, test reports, and quality metrics for all testing activities.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both functional and project managers.
• Participate in project planning, sprint ceremonies, and release readiness activities from a QA perspective.
What should you have
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any Technology stream.
• 3+ years of experience in software testing, including backend, data, and frontend testing.
• Strong experience in testing data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehouses.
• Hands-on experience with API testing tools and frameworks.
• Experience in frontend testing (UI, usability, cross-browser, responsiveness).
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.
• Hands-on experience in test automation for backend and frontend applications.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Good understanding of cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• Experience with databases, SQL, and data validation techniques.
• Familiarity with performance and security testing is a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality testing results.
• Product- and customer-centric mindset.
• Attention to detail, proactive attitude, and continuous improvement mindset.
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:
01/23/2026
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