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The Analytics Center of Excellence

Our new Analytics Center of Excellence (Analytics COE) harnesses our global healthcare insights, working closely with our clinical and therapeutic experts to power evidence-driven design, speed site activation and recruit the right patients, faster. This is a new unit within our business, integrated within Clinical Operations. We are using Machine Learning and advanced analytics to derive insights that transform clinical development and bring new medicines to patients faster through successful trial delivery. This multi-functional team is an innovation for our business, requiring entrepreneurial and independent thinking to build our capability. Unique and with a global view, this Center of Excellence is a chance to revolutionize the clinical research industry.

Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) – the role

As an SDET you have the coding skills of a developer and the testing knowledge and experience of a quality software engineer. As member of the ACOE you will have the chance and support to develop truly innovative automation test solutions. You will have an opportunity to help shape the future of test automation by contributing to the creation of frameworks while working in a cutting-edge continuous integration and delivery model. Working closely with the software development and data scientists you will contribute to automated testing solutions by participating in many facets of automation including integration testing, functional UI testing, back-end testing, database validations, API and microservices, and so much more.

Your typical activities might include:

• Collaborating with business owners, subject matter experts, and go to market teams to develop testing strategies and approaches to support multiple distributed agile teams
• Participating in activities focused on the agile software development cycle
• Designing, developing, and supporting test automation
• Contributing and collaborating on test frameworks, environments, tool selection and infrastructure
• Identifying data requirements and generating and maintaining test data
• Reporting testing progress and quality status to stakeholders, participating in test planning and bug triages

Qualification:

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A Bachelor's degree in STEM field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics
• 3+ years of relevant Quality Engineering automation experience (ie, UI, system, integration, API, performance/load, database, security, end to end)
• 3+ years of writing test scripts from scratch with the ability to work in a Behaviour Data Driven Model (BDD) and/or Test Data Driven Model (TDD), experienced with Gherkin and/or Cucumber syntax
• 3+ years of experience working in a UI framework such as Selenium WebDriver
• 3+ years of experience with Object Oriented Programming languages - Python or Java
• 3+ years of experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), Jenkins, and/or GitHub Actions
• Must have Agile Scrum SDLC experience, strong SQL skills
• Experience working in a regulated environment a plus
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Postman, and JMeter also a plus
• Soft skills: self-motivated, flexible, and adaptable, ability to multi-task, oral and written fluency in English
• Comfortable working remotely with a Global Scrum Team

We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there!

We invite you to join IQVIA™.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com