22 Oct
Norstella
Thoothukudi
Sr Software Development Engineer in Test
Company Description
Why Norstella? Norstella unites market-leading companies with a shared goal of improving patient access. Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making.
Together, we help our clients:
Assess the market need and competitive landscape
Know precisely which drugs to prioritize in their portfolios
Find out where the launch difficulties will be—before they’re difficulties
Track and improve market access post-launch
By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions,
and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning, and predictive analytics. At Norstella, we don’t just deliver information and insights. We deliver answers you can act on.
Job Description
Have you wondered how life-saving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed, and available to needy patients? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted on a global scale? How do governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug and how a care provider determines the proper treatment for a given patient? If yes, Norstella could be the next step in your career.
In this role, you work with internal and external developers responsible for the development and subsequent support of the various platform services components underpinning all the customer-facing applications across Norstella.
As part of a large technology group, you work with product management, architecture, and other software engineering teams to support the product development roadmap.
We are looking for an experienced individual with excellent communication skills, deep experience in software engineering, and, most importantly, the ability and willingness to keep learning in this ever-changing technology landscape.
Education :
Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering or related field of study or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities:
Build end‐to‐end testing toolchains for our products' functional, non-functional, performance, usability, and security testing.
Ensuring the quality and reliability of our web and mobile applications,
including iOS platforms. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and other QA engineers, to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality software products.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior members of the QA team.
Stay current with industry trends, technology, and best practices in automation testing and quality assurance and prepare and present training as applicable.
Work with teams and leadership to effectively work in a high‐volume, rapid delivery, agile environment, utilizing a “shift left mentality” to implement a lean model.
Experience:
- 5+ years as SDET
- A minimum of 5 years of experience focusing on automation testing and scripting
- Excellent Manual, Functional Testing and testing automation with prior experience in Agile Product Development and Agile QA
- Must have experience implementing automation testing into CI/CD Pipelines.
Competencies:
Mandatory:
• Automation Scripting: Ruby / Python
• Web automation Testing Tool: Watir(preferably)/Selenium/PlayWright
• Advanced SQL skills
• CI/CD in Test Automation: ADO/Jenkins/GHA or similar
• Containers Orchestration: Docker, K8s
• AWS: ECS/ EKS, RDS, S3
Nice to have:
• Programming – Ruby/Python RoR/Django
• Cucumber / Gherkin
• Experience with JIRA or similar PM tool
• Performance testing
• Security testing
The guiding principles for success at Norstella:
01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Lifesaving Therapies, and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission we are trying to accomplish must be at the forefront of our minds in everything we do.
02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
We make promises that we can keep and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.
03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace
We will empathize with everyone’s situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.
04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance
We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.
05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning
We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.
▶️ Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
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📍 Thoothukudi