Job Description
Senior Manager, Test Lead
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 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
As a Senior manager, Test Lead, Technology Compliance Partner, you will be responsible for authoring SDLC documents and providing SDLC advice to IT colleagues regarding the practical application of the SDLC. This role is vital for IT product, engineering, and service teams to understand and implement technology and process controls to meet the company’s policy and regulatory obligations.
What will you do in this role:
- Engage with IT practitioners and acts as a consultant for the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Compliance Risk Profile, Digital SDLC, Good Documentation Practices and the IT Control Requirements Set including the adoption of agile ways of working.
- Provide compliance advice to IT colleagues regarding the practical application of the SDLC for product teams.
- Support efforts to reduce SDLC documentation through automation and pipeline delivery.
- Advance Agile SDLC competency and drive good practices for product teams.
- Work across product teams and initiatives as subject matter expert on the SDLC and IT compliance controls.
- Maintain a customer-centric focus on compliance to drive a consistent approach across IT.
- Write and review SDLC documentation according to our company's standards.
- Assist in collecting information for Change Control and addressing impact changes for application releases.
- Ensures that the IT organization operates and complies with established policies/procedures.
- Supports audit/inspection readiness and participates in the timely review and Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) response.
- Monitors IT compliance indicators, evaluates impacts and ensures non-compliance incidents are communicated and actioned.
- Oversees policies, SOPs, supporting documents and associated materials to ensure seamless integration with other processes.
- Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.
What should you have:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Law, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in technology compliance, risk management, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of data protection laws and regulations (e.g., GDPR, Annex 11).
- Understanding of System Development Life Cycle, good engineering practice, and computer validation
- Excellent analytical UAT and manual testing skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey risk findings and recommendations.
- Ability to communicate complex compliance issues to non-technical stakeholders.
- Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accurate risk assessments and reporting.
- Understanding of relevant regulations and compliance standards.
- Ability to manage risk-related projects and coordinate with various teams.
- Strong organizational skills to handle multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
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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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Valid Driving License:
Hazardous Material(s):
Required Skills:
Application Testing, Audit Management, Functional Automation Testing, Functional Test Automation, Functional Testing, Governance Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Management, Regression Testing, Risk Management, Technical Advice, Testing, Testing Methodology
Preferred Skills:
Job Posting End Date:
07/30/2025
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