Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

Location: Barcelona (Hybrid) Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you. Our Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) team is 130 members strong and has a presence in key strategic locations globally. The CEP team works across a broad range of technologies (Salesforce, AWS…) and solutions, spanning applications for internal business productivity to external applications for medical professionals and patients. With endless future opportunities in Digital Health, we are well positioned to build products that directly improve and extend patient’s lives.

Job Description

What does it mean to be a Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer in Novartis?
In this position, you will be responsible for driving the organizations overall test methodologies and approaches within our product squads, which you will support from test perspective. In this role, you will bring industry expertise, software-testing experience, and implement in line with product development, agile and DevOps best practices.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Drive the standard execution of each test phase (system, integration, functional, regression, acceptance etc.) in your product scope.

• Contribute to the refinement and ongoing improvement of the test management strategy for the products and squads in scope.

• Execution of test governance and associated standards within your product squad.

• Participate in all Agile ceremonies being accountable for testing assessment, provide estimation support and ensure execution on quality and time (e.g. refinement, retrospective, sprint reviews…).

• Ensure all test related results are created to quality in line with strategy and approach.

• Support formal review cycles including informal review, formal review, testing sign-off and quality assurance reviews focused on continuous improvement.

• Utilize test environments, test data and test related tooling in accordance with CEP and Novartis standards. Collaborate with other test management experts in the overall test approach and frameworks.

• Collaborate with peers globally in scaling test teams, processes, and standards. Maintain alignment with CEP management in terms of strategy, process, and tooling.

Role Requirements:

• 5 + years proven experience in a similar role with a shown track record as a QA Engineer

• 5+ years demonstrated ability working in Agile projects.

• Track experience in modern project and test management tools (e.g Jira, Xray).

• Business proficient in English (written and spoken) and Spanish proficient (spoken)

• Attention to detail: QA engineer should be able to spot minor details the systems, as well as the details that contribute to a top application.

• Effective written and spoken communication skills. Ability to negotiate and liaise with collaborators.

• Critical thinking attitude.

• Adaptability to new technologies, methodologies and project requirements.

Nice to have

• Salesforce and Agile/SAFe Certifications would be advantageous.

• API testing or Test Automation experience would be advantageous.

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: Novartis Life Handbook

Accessibility and accommodation: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve

Why Novartis? Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

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Skills Desired

Budget Management, Business Acumen, Performance Management, Planning, Project Management, Risk Management, Service Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management #J-18808-Ljbffr