Description
Senior QA TesterSyneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Job Responsibilities
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled
Senior QA Tester/Test Automation Engineer
to design, develop, and maintain automation solutions across multiple applications and platforms. The ideal candidate is passionate about quality engineering, experienced in modern automation frameworks, and capable of driving automation adoption in agile delivery environments.This role will play a key part in increasing automation coverage, improving release quality, reducing testing cycle times, and ensuring a scalable and reliable automation approach across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Automation Development
- Design and build automated test scripts for web, API, backend, and functional scenarios.
- Develop scalable automation suites aligned to sprint and release cycles.
- Contribute to reusable automation libraries, utilities, and test data components.
- Ensure automation scripts meet coding standards and trace back to clear requirements.
Continuous Quality Execution
- Support CI/CD integration for automated testing execution.
- Configure automation execution pipelines and generate automated reports.
- Use automation results to proactively identify defects and quality trends.
Test Strategy & Collaboration
- Work closely with product owners, dev teams, and QA analysts to define test coverage.
- Perform requirement analysis to identify automation scope early (shift-left approach).
- Participate in sprint ceremonies and represent automation within the delivery team.
- Provide estimation and effort planning for automation tasks.
Documentation & Governance
- Maintain script versioning, execution logs, and documentation.
- Support traceability, risk-based testing, and validation evidence where applicable.
Required Qualifications
- 2–5 years of hands-on experience in automation engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience in at least one of the following:
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Cypress
- Provar (for Salesforce projects)
- Strong scripting/programming skills in:
- TypeScript / JavaScript or
- Java / Python
- Experience with API automation tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- Experience executing automation within agile delivery models.
- Good knowledge of test design techniques (boundary, equivalence, data-driven, risk-based testing).
Preferred Experience
- Experience automating Salesforce applications (e.g., Health Cloud, Data Cloud, Lightning UI).
- Hands-on experience building reusable automation frameworks.
- Knowledge of performance or accessibility automation tools.
- Experience in a regulated or validated environment (e.g., GxP).
- ISTQB or QA-related certification.
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical thinking and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Self-driven with strong ownership and accountability.
- Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Passionate about mentoring others on automation best practices.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.http://www.syneoshealth.com
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Summary
The Sr. QA Engineer is a key contributor within the Quality Engineer track, responsible for executing QA automated testing. This role applies risk-based testing to prioritize efforts, ensures GxP compliance where required, and practices shift-left testing by engaging early in the SDLC. Practitioners actively contribute to automation and mentor junior testers.
