QA Automation Engineer

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

QA Engineer

Eurofins IT Solutions, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

With 36 facilities worldwide, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing (BPT) is the largest network of bio/pharmaceutical GMP product testing laboratories providing comprehensive laboratory services for the world's largest pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device companies.

BPT is enabled by global engineering teams working on next-generation applications and Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). As Automation Engineer, you will be a crucial part of our delivery team, ensuring the product features are completely automated and reducing the idea to live time to Business. As a technology leader, BPT wants to give you the opportunity not just to accept new challenges and opportunities but to impress with your ingenuity, focus, attention to detail and collaboration with a global team of professionals.

This role reports to a Senior Manager.

Required Experience and Skills

Experience:

• Experience between 2 to 5 years
• Expertise in Automation Testing of Web and Windows-based applications
• Good experience in building and using automation frameworks using technologies: Java/ C#
• Experience in doing in-sprint automation
• Strong Automation background with experience in identifying and reviewing test cases and testing results
• Ability to understand complex requirements and transform those into Test Scenarios, Test cases and Test Scripts
• Proficient in Version Control tool (ex: GIT )
• Worked on automating the CI/CD pipelines
• Good Knowledge of Manual Testing of Web and Windows-based applications.
• Have an excellent understanding of SDLC and STLC lifecycles.
• Hands-on work experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test plans and Requirement traceability matrix.
• Exposure to different Testing types – Sanity, Functional, Integration, Exploratory and System testing.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology and working experience in an Agile environment.
• Proficient in creating Test Reports.
• Should know about analyzing the Risks.
• Prior experience in testing LIMS would be an added advantage.

Specific skills required

• Expertise in Automation Testing using Selenium/Protractor/WebdriverIO.
• Hands-on experience in programming languages (C#, Java, Python).
• Experienced in Creating VM for Automation and setting up the configuration in the test suite and runners.
• Hands-on experience in SQL to write medium complex queries (e.g. Joins/sub-queries etc.).
• Good understanding of JSON, XML, REST and experience in testing web services using POSTMAN, REST Assured, JSON Lint, SOAP UI.
• Experience with any defect tracking tool like Jira, TFS/MTM, Bugzilla, etc.
• Experience on any test management tools like TFS/MTM, ALM, etc

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of Performance testing.
• Knowledge of Security testing.
• Knowledge of Mobile Automation Testing.
  
  

Personal Skills:

• Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;
• Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;
• Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);
• Structured and clear writing skills;
• Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;
• Demonstrated positive attitude, self-motivated, team player.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations, half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated, documented during the first 30 days of your joining.