Senior Automation Tester

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Job Description

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.  

At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team

About the role:

As a Senior Automation Tester in the Donor Engagement Platform (DEP) space within the Plasma-Derived Therapies (PDT) business unit, you will play a critical role in driving quality assurance initiatives and ensuring software products adhere to the highest standards and business requirements. In addition to hands-on testing responsibilities, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA team members, helping establish robust testing methodologies, best practices, and standard operating procedures.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including development, product, business, and infrastructure teams to design, review, and execute comprehensive testing strategies covering functional, non-functional, integration, performance, and negative test scenarios across DEP systems.

By leading the planning, execution, coordination, and reporting of testing activities, this role directly contributes to PDT’s ability to harness data effectively, improve decision-making capabilities, and maintain a competitive advantage in the market. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and modern testing methodologies to help Takeda drive innovation, scale quality engineering practices, and continuously evolve in an ever-changing business and technology landscape.

This role will also serve as a team lead, providing guidance to junior testers, driving delivery excellence, ensuring alignment across QA teams, and supporting strategic quality initiatives.

This position will align to the Testing and Validation Chapter of the ICC and initially report to the Functional Delivery Lead for strategic direction as well as day-to-day management.

How you will contribute:

• Lead and independently own end-to-end testing activities across multiple projects and releases.
• Mentor, guide, and support junior QA team members while ensuring adherence to quality standards, best practices, and high-quality deliverables.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies, detailed test plans, and optimized test scenarios covering functional, integration, regression, performance, API, and negative testing based on business and technical requirements.
• Design, develop, review, and maintain automation frameworks and test scripts for Web, Mobile, and API testing while driving automation initiatives to improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and release quality.
• Execute manual and automated test cases, report defects, track them to closure, and analyze automation failures to ensure stability and reliability of test suites.
• Perform automation code reviews and provide recommendations to improve script scalability, maintainability, reusability, and overall framework effectiveness.
• Lead Web and Mobile automation testing activities using tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, or equivalent technologies.
• Define test success and failure criteria, establish monitoring and validation approaches, and analyze application, system, and infrastructure logs to support troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate closely with development, product, business, and infrastructure teams to ensure quality standards are consistently met across all deliverables.
• Maintain detailed documentation of test plans, automation coverage, execution results, defect reports, and QA metrics.
• Perform regression testing to validate that new enhancements do not adversely impact existing functionalities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in testing processes, automation frameworks, QA workflows, and adoption of emerging testing tools and AI-driven testing practices.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, quality metrics, and recommendations effectively to stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Coordinate effectively across multiple QA teams to ensure alignment with project goals, timelines, release activities, and delivery expectations.
• Support release planning, production validation, and post-release quality assurance activities.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in Quality Assurance with strong expertise in manual, automation, and performance testing methodologies and practices.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring QA teams and coordinating testing activities across projects.
• Hands-on experience with automation testing tools such as Selenium, Appium and test frameworks like TestNG, Cucumber.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Experience with defect management and tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and database validation techniques for backend and data testing.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and participation in Agile ceremonies.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed load testing concepts and execution strategies.
• Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and troubleshoot complex application issues.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple QA deliverables and coordinate across QA teams.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, including working with dashboards, reports, and data quality concepts.
• Understanding AI/ML fundamentals and emerging intelligent automation/testing trends.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Preferred requirements:

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab CI.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and quality engineering practices within CI/CD ecosystems.
• Experience with mobile automation testing tools such as Appium.
• Experience working in regulated domains such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or finance.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Exposure to API testing and service virtualization tools is an added advantage.
• Experience in test estimation, planning, and resource coordination for enterprise-scale projects.

BENEFITS:

It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:

• Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working
• Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children
• Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Broad Variety of learning platforms
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)

ABOUT ICC IN TAKEDA:

• Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We’re not just transforming our company; we’re improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.
• As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

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Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time