Senior Engineer - Functional Testing

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Job Title: Senior Engineer - Testing Career Level - D1 YOE - 6 to 8 Years Introduction to role Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you! Accountabilities Lead and coordinate activities with data source application owners to ensure integration, data integrity, and data quality. Maintain and handle test documentation for data warehousing and ETL processes. Be an SME, assume lead SQA role and ownership of the application under test in terms of data quality. Ensure the business intelligence dashboard/ dossier is delivered to the customers meeting their expectations at the right time as per the agreed SLA. Coordinate with upstream/downstream application teams and the key stakeholders for any data issues, outages or impact arising due to any changes. Ensure that thorough impact analysis and testing are carried out for any upstream changes impacting the application. Accountable for job monitoring like airflow, execution, troubleshoot any issues, identify the root cause and report any bugs as and when required. Accountable for functional performance of QA function aligned to Information Management platform portfolio. Effectively coach, provide guidance to QA staff aligned with assigned platform portfolio. Insert leadership with AD technical leads, AD tower leads, 3rd party vendor. Business process knowledge sufficient to understand the technology changes resulting in a test strategy that can be applied to one or more platform QA services aligned with the assigned platform portfolio. Effectively communicate, negotiate and influence release-train stakeholders (PM, Development Lead, Service Lead, Users) to ensure alignment with test approach and execution that represents "best fit" of effort, benefit, and cost. Facilitate Information Management platform reviews of innovation, practice improvements, and drive improvements consistency across all platforms within assigned portfolio. Apply platform-specific test strategies. For example, platform-aligned KPIs, metrics like AD to Test ratio; FTE and Contractor ratio; etc. Establish and manage the execution of QA roadmap - drive innovation, improvements across QA team. In partnership with Platform Release Managers, Project Managers, SDC leads - establish productivity benchmarks for QA staff functionally reporting into Commercial IT SQA Manager. Essential Skills/Experience Hands-on experience in AWS Services like EMR, S3, Athena, RDS, Redshift, etc. is required Querying knowledge using SQL is a must. Knowledge of the BI Reporting tool (MicroStrategy) and scheduling tools (Airflow preferably) Python knowledge is desirable. 6+ years of hands-on SQA and Testing experience 3+ years experience managing team size of 4-8 QA engineers and working with product cross-functional teams in a leadership role using agile/iterative development methods Experience in Agile and with agile teams using methodologies such as SCRUM and SAFe Proven track record to work independently in a dynamic, fast-moving environment Confidently communicate and interpersonal skills to effectively engage SQA staff, senior stakeholders, in urgent or critical situations Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, Automated Testing Tools Experience with capacity management, SQA service management, SQA service, and operational metrics Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, test planning, system dependencies, and product integration phases. Extensive experience with software test lifecycle management Demonstrated ability to own problems and propose realistic, meaningful solutions Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles At AstraZeneca, we are shaping our digital journey by uniting our technologies, tools, and platforms with our collective expertise. This allows us to drive our transformational journey forward and make better data decisions. We are committed to leveraging our leading technologies and exploring data to achieve improved outcomes faster. Our diverse team of specialists is empowered to innovate and express their ideas freely. We continuously expand our knowledge through a two-way feedback loop and novel roles. Everything we do is aimed at positively impacting patients across the world. Join us now to make a difference! Apply today! We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Date Posted 22-May-2025 Closing Date 04-Jun-2025