Software Quality and Test Engineer

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
 At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Key Accountabilities:

Business process testing:

• Support the quality control of functional or cross-functional systems and applications in line with Parexel Operational and Parexel Quality Management strategies. 

• Manages selection/creation of relevant scenarios for testing and ensures that tests reflect realistic operational business conditions. 

• Ensure tests and results are documented, reported to stakeholders and are available for specification of user instructions.

Quality Assurance:

• Conduct Software Quality reviews of software functional requirements and designs. 

• Experience writing and executing functional & non-functional test plans/cases within an agile environment.

• Test internally developed software and commercial off the shelf (COTS) product to ensure quality of software delivery. 

• Ensure that software is tested according to SOPs, lifecycle methodologies and to regulatory requirements. 

Testing:

• Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, and portability). 

• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. Produces test scripts, materials, and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services. 

• Records and analyses action and results and maintains a defect register.

• Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary. Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project.

• Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases. Provides specialist advice to support others.

• Knowledge in basic and complex SQL Queries

Other Accountabilities:

• Familiarity with software quality assurance processes and software testing best practices.

• Perform project tasks in accordance with project timelines and required quality standards.

• Keep manager(s) informed about work progress and any issues to avoid surprises.

• Analyze bugs and errors found during tests, documenting the results, verified resolved defects, and tracked the bugs raised.

• Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision.

• Provide and meet time estimates for assigned deliverables. 

Skills:

• Excellent attention to detail. Good oral and written communication skills, strong analytic and problem solving. A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning. 

• Ability to function as part of a ‘virtual’, global team as required. 

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workflow with attention to detail within as action-oriented, fast-paced, and rapidly changing environment.

• Manual and/or automated testing of IT applications, including portals, data warehouses, web, client\/server applications.  

• Experience with back-end, front-end and connectivity components of data warehouse applications.

• Configuration and change management of software components and packages including defect/issue reporting and tracking.  

• Shows commitment to and performs consistently high-quality work.

• Ability to be work both independently and as part of a team.

• Demonstrated skill at working as a productive member of a software development teamwork and willingness to listen to others. 

Knowledge and Experience: 

• System implementation and Part 11 validation experience required.

• Experience in Clinical Development & Delivery or other similar experiences.

• Knowledge of GxP compliance required.

• Proficiency in verbal and written English. 

• Experience with test case design and strategy

• Experience with reviewing requirements and functional specifications

• 3-5 Years experience in software testing techniques and test case development, can easily determine what test case is required for various testing scenarios.

• 1-2 Years SQL experience. Familiarity with data warehousing concepts.

Education:

• Educated to degree level (B.S/B.A. Computer science preferred, technology, biological science, or equivalent degree in technology) or equivalent qualification or clinical research experience.

Minimum Work Experience

• Hand-on work experience in software industry experience in Software Quality and Test Engineering for Web and/or client/server applications. 

• Strong experience in Software Quality and Test activities (Writing, updating, executing test cases).

• Familiarity in Web Automation using Selenium WebDriver with (Java), process improvement skills and performance testing.