Senior Lead QA

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

The Opportunity

As Sr Specialist Testing, you will be working in a team of self-motivated and self-organized developers and testers, taking an idea from concept to completion. Oversee all aspects of quality assurance, including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met. He/she will be responsible for delivering quality products and ensuring best practices.

A seasoned professional with wide-ranging experience. Deals with diverse and often times complex issues, where analysis may require in-depth evaluation of many factors. Exercises judgment in evaluating methods and may determine criteria for obtaining solutions. May coordinate the activities of other employees. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in area of expertise as well as some key contacts outside area of expertise

Job Facts

(This is a newly created role and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the remit of the team as it evolves).

• Lead and execute testing for new and cutting-edge products in the healthcare industry.

• Perform requirement and design analysis and prepare functional, regression and performance test, test cases, and test data

• Develop and maintain test plans and test strategy, good in estimation, planning and presentation.

• Collaborate with product management to triage defects and conduct product beta testing and showcases with stakeholders

• Experience in security testing, globalization testing, and performance testing

• Report defects, publish and present test reports and analysis through presentations.

• Understand product requirements and design; proactively participate in requirement gathering phase

• Participate in the product development process to ensure that customer requirements are met

• Establish and evolve formal QA best practices, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.

• Work closely with application development, architecture, and infrastructure teams for automation, performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria

• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance, including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met

• Be part of the recruitment team for recruitment and conduct Mentoring and training for the team and new team members.

• Should be comfortable to manage a small team for big feature delivery and would own end to end testing of features

Who You Are

• 8 -10 years of testing experience, preferably in a product organization

• Experience in of SQL experience. Must feel comfortable writing database queries

• Experience in scripting with bash or equivalent. Must feel comfortable writing automation scripts

• Experience using bug tracking systems such as Jira.

• Proficient in developing testing web applications, API testing and database applications

• Well versed for performance baselining, workload distribution, and load/stress testing

• Experience in globalization testing, usability, and performance testing

• Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies, including databases, web, web services, and reporting

• Strong understanding of quality assurance and testing processes using Agile/Waterfall model

• Strong comprehension, analytical, and problem solving skills

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, quick learner, and good troubleshooting capabilities

• Provide support to L2/L3 teams, mentor new team members and participate in hiring process

• Experience with UI/UX testing, and testing products for accessibility with i18n testing experience of SaaS based products

• Good analytical and logical skills and have ability to learn new tools and technologies.

• Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent. Master’s degree desired but not mandatory.

• Masters of Science (MS) degree in relevant area of study is preferred.

• Experience working in a regulated environment of the healthcare, diagnostics, and/or pharmaceutical industry with Information Security and Computer System Validation (CSV).

• Experience in testing business intelligence/analytics applications or software for multi-tenant enterprise SaaS applications is a big plus

• Certified in CSM or ISTQM

Mindset

• You will be expected to demonstrate the We@RD dimensions and help evolve the functions culture beliefs and bring We@RocheDiagnostics to life, as part of the TransformD journey. The dimensions are:

• We are passionate about our customers and patients

• We radically simplify

• We trust, collaborate & have fun

• We ALL lead

• We experiment & learn

• Are you ready to apply? We want someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be a unique opportunity to shape the future of Diagnostics.