Associate Manager

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

This role involves designing and executing automated and manual tests using Tosca for UI, API, and data migration validation, ensuring robust quality across applications. You will collaborate in Agile teams, manage test data and defects, and contribute to continuous improvement in testing practices.

What will you do in this role

• Design, develop and maintain Tosca automation assets for UI and API testing.
• Create and execute manual and automated test cases to validate application functionality.
• Implement Tosca Test Case Design (TCD) patterns to create reusable, maintainable test cases.
• Leverage Tosca Test Data Service (TDS/TDM) to model and manage test data for stable, repeatable tests.
• Configure and run Tosca Distribution Execution (DEX) for orchestrating distributed test runs.
• Use Tosca API scanner and Postman for API discovery, test creation, and execution.
• Lead data migration and integration test efforts: validate transformations, data integrity and end‑to‑end flows.
• Organize test artifacts using Sections, Modules, Test Cases and Test Case Design folders/structures.
• Report, track and manage defects using JIRA; collaborate with developers and product owners to drive timely resolution.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and work closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure quality delivery.
• Produce clear test documentation, status updates and test summary reports.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• Required Qualifications & Skills
• 2 years of hands‑on experience in Tosca UI automation and manual testing.
• 1 year of experience in Tosca API testing and Postman.
• 1.5 years of experience in Tosca data migration and integration testing.
• Strong knowledge of Tosca features including Test Case Design (TCD), Test Data Service (TDS/TDM), Distribution Execution (DEX), and API Scanner.
• Proficient in creating and organizing Sections, Modules, Test Cases and TCD structures in Tosca.
• Excellent experience with JIRA for defect management and tracking.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.
• Good analytical and problem‑solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Nice to Have
• Experience integrating Tosca with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git).
• Knowledge of SQL and database validation techniques for migration testing.
• Scripting or programming experience (e.g., C#, VB, Python) for custom test automation extensions.
• Experience with performance or security testing tools.
• ISTQB certification or equivalent QA certification.
• Product and customer-centric approach.
• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

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 inventing for life, 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:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

10/30/2025

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