Quality Assurance Engineer
About this opportunity
Career Category
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.
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 quality assurance of 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. Lead software quality engineering discussions.
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.
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.
Identify, document, and track bugs using a bug tracking system like JIRA or similar.
Work closely with developers to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
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.
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What we expect of you
Basic Qualifications:
Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of Information Systems experience OR
Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of Information Systems experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in modern web application testing and automation
Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodology
Experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems like JIRA
Good-to-Have Skills:
Has experience in testing Rest web services
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:
Excellent analytical and gap/fit assessment skills
Sees opportunities for innovation and offers new insights. Takes the initiative to experiment with new software frameworks
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
High degree of initiative and self-motivation
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 deal with 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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