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Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for leading quality assurance for IT products, supporting integration and deployment, and collaborating with product stakeholders. This includes creating tests, testing large modules or components and developing test automation scripts. Contribute to the immediate team and across product teams, ensuring new development does not introduce regressions. Improve testing and deployment efficiency by validating complex integration solutions. Lead software quality engineering discussions and mentor junior quality engineers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners and developers to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Participate in backlog refinement and sprint planning to ensure testable user stories.

• Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies for web applications.

• Design and create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases.

• Identify test requirements and prepare test data.

• Perform manual testing of web applications, including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for web applications using tools like Selenium, Cypress, or similar.

• Integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

• Ensure automated tests are run regularly and results are reported and analyzed.

• Conduct performance and load testing to ensure web applications can handle expected user loads.

• Use tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar for performance testing.

• Identify, document, and track bugs using a bug tracking system like JIRA or similar.

• Work closely with developers to reproduce issues and verify fixes.

• Provide timely feedback on the quality of the product and suggest improvements.

• Set up and maintain test environments for manual and automated testing.

• Ensure that test environments mirror production environments as closely as possible.

• Advocate for and implement standard methodologies in QA and testing.

• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in testing methodologies and tools.

• Continuously improve the QA processes and tools used by the team.

• Mentor junior QA engineers and provide guidance on best practices.

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What we expect of you

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of Information Systems experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of Information Systems experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Has extensive experience in modern web application test automation

• Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodology

• Has experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems like JIRA.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Has experience in testing Rest web services

• Familiarity with low-code, no-code test automation software

• Technical thought leadership

• Able to communicate technical or complex subject matters in business terms

• Jira Align experience

• Miro experience

Professional Certifications (please mention if the certification is preferred or required for the role):

• Relevant to job responsibilities any certification - preferred

Soft Skills:

• Able to work under minimal supervision

• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.

• Excellent analytical and gap/fit assessment skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.

• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with 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 an accommodation.

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