Specialist, Software Engineer Test Engineer

Job Description

The Opportunity 

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.  
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.  
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.  

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.  

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.  

Role Overview 

Join our company as a software engineer as we innovate!  Our Test Platform team provides test tools and test infrastructure to enable end users to test using Robot Framework and Tosca.  As a Software Engineer (SDET), we are seeking a Test Engineer with development experience in Python, Robot Framework, Pylint/Robocop, Tricentis Tosca, and Xray Test Management.

What will you do in this role 

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests using Robot Framework (including resource files, custom Libraries/Keywords, variables, fixtures).
• Implement data-driven and keyword-driven automation patterns; optimize suite structure, tagging strategies, and execution lists and perform Testing of the Product.
• Model and manage tests in Xray (Tests, Pre-Conditions, Test Sets, Test Plans, Test Executions).
• Work with Robot Framework, Xray Test Management and  Tricentis Tosca for Test Automation

What should you have 

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any technology stream.
• 3+ years of hands-on test automation with Python, Robot Framework Test Automation and GitHub Source Code Management practices.
• Demonstrated experience with Pylint and Robocop (authoring configs, suppressions, and rules tuning) including use of Docker Images with RobotFramework.
• Model and manage tests in Xray Test Management  (Tests, Pre-Conditions, Test Sets, Test Plans, Test Executions).
• Familiarity with AI technologies such as GPT and Copilot, and also Tricentis Tosca
• Knowledge of Tosca components: Modules, TBox, API Testing, TestCaseDesign, Execution, Recovery Scenarios, and distributed execution a plus.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.  

Who we are 

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.  

What we look for 

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today. 

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

06/24/2026

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