Job Description
Global LIMS Validation Specialist
Specialist, Technical Product Management
The Opportunity
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 company’s 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:
Global LIMS Validation Specialist
Join us and be part of our dedicated team that provides support for our Laboratories to improve efficiency, reporting and compliance while improving LIMS Platform stability and useability. This opportunity will also involve working on our Laboratory Transformation program which is a multi-year, phased approach to streamline and standardize our QC labs to prepare each site to a level playing field of maturity for full digitalization.
Responsibilities:
•Create and/or support the execution of Development Testing (DT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Test Scripts
•Create Test Summary Documents
•Identify and Report test and system defects.
•Create and Update validation deliverables such as Requirements, Risk Assessments, Trace Matrices and Test Plans.
•Develop and maintain good Labware product knowledge
•Willingness and ability to collaborate/communicate with the Global LIMS Team and Quality Stakeholders.
Qualifications
•Bachelor's degree or equivalent and a minimum of 1 years making a difference in a Pharmaceutical, Scientific, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics field.
•Experience in software testing, preferably Labware LIMS.
•Familiarity with testing tools and methods e.g. JIRA, Microsoft Teams, etc.
•Strong analytic, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
•Attention to detail.
•Strong writing and documentation creation skills
•Self-motivated
•Familiarity with Agile Methodologies.
•Experience in Pharma Industry with knowledge of cGMP and Laboratory processes.
•Good Communication Skills including fluency in English
Who we are
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and 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:
Applied Engineering, Asset Management, Benefits Management, Communication, Critical Thinking, Development Testing, Management System Development, Maturity Assessments, Microsoft Teams, Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Requirements Management, Risk Assessments, Software Testing, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Standards Compliance, Strategic Planning, System Designs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)Preferred Skills:
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06/25/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.