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MSD · Hyderabad, Telangana, India
MSD · Hyderabad, Telangana, India
**Job Description** **Tester Job Description – Digital Quality & Lab (DQ&L) Instrument & Integration Tester 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 **ca** ****n**** 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** We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Product Management - Digital Quality & Lab (DQ&L) Instrument & Integration Tester. Our Digital Quality & Lab Instrument & Material Management team operates as a technology product owner and business partner, proposing innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and platforms that increase productivity, enable innovation, and ensure compliance across laboratory and manufacturing environments. The DQ&L Instrument & Integration Tester will support the authoring and execution of testing activities for the integration of analytical and analytical ancillary instrument systems. This role ensures solutions are verified and validated through documented testing aligned to intended use. This position focuses on integration testing of instruments and systems, ensuring that data flows, transformations, and workflows across platforms (e.g., Scitara DLX, Empower, BIOVIA, MODA-EM, LabX, Labware LIMS) operate as intended and meet GxP, data integrity, and Computer System Assurance (CSA) expectations. The Tester partners closely with Business Analysts and Technical Analysts, who defi **ne** requirements and design solutions, while the Tester ensures those outputs are effectively verified through robust, risk-based testing. Bring energy, knowledge, innovation to carry out the following - Collaborate with local and global business partners, including Business Analysts and Technical Analysts, to understand requirements and system design to support test development and execution - Support project completion in line with established timescales through the authoring and execution of SDLC testing activities, ensuring alignment to cross-functional deliverables - Author and execute test cases, scripts, and datasets aligned to business requirements, functional and configuration specifications, and integration workflows - Execute testing across functional workflows, instrument-to-system and system-to-system integrations, and end-to-end workflows spanning multiple platforms - Validate data exchange, transformation, and orchestration, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and preservation of data, and alignment to intended system behavior and business processes - Develop and maintain complete and auditable traceability between requirements, test cases, execution results, and defects, ensuring clear linkage to intended use - Identify, document, classify, and manage defects, ensuring issues are - Reproducible and clearly described - Assessed and prioritized based on risk to compliance, data integrity, and business operations - Resolved and verified through re-testing - Author and execute testing deliverables in support of validation, including test protocols/scripts, execution evidence, and defect or deviation documentation, providing evidence supporting fitness for intended use - Ensure all testing aligns with Computer System Assurance (CSA) principles (risk-based approach), GxP expectations, 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and Data Integrity principles (ALCOA+) - Participate in requirements and design reviews to confirm solutions are testable and verifiable, escalating gaps or ambiguities as needed - Validate integration patterns including API-based, file-based, and OPC UA integrations supporting instrument connectivity and orchestration workflows, ensuring - Data mappings and transformations are correct - Exception handling and error conditions behave as expected - Logging and traceability support audit and troubleshooting requirements - Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency, standardization, and reuse of test assets across platforms and programs. **What Skills You Will Need** In order to excel in this role, you will more than likely have - Degree in life science (e.g., microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology), IT, or engineering discipline - Strong background in pharmaceutical quality, laboratory, or manufacturing operations - Hands-on experience supporting test design, execution, and defect management for laboratory instrumentation systems and integrations - Broad understanding of computerized systems, IT, SDLC, and qualification principles, inclu