Medidata Solutions, Inc.
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London, Greater London
Software Development Engineer in Test
Overview
Job Description
Medidata: Conquering Diseases Together Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of patients. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 1,400 customers and partners access the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Medidata, a Dassault Systemes company, is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com . **Your Mission:** Our Software Test Engineering function runs out of London, New York, San Francisco & Tokyo offices. Working in an Agile environment, you will work on Medidata's next-generation clinical trial management applications. You will work as part of a high performing agile team incorporating Engineering, Testing, Product and Project Management who combine to ensure we are delivering high-quality, innovative products with an emphasis on quality and speed to market. You will participate in the execution and team adoption of testing, automation tools & best practices. Core responsibilities: + Writing and maintaining impactful integration and end to end automation. + Work with the Engineering to establish CI/CD pipeline. + Establish standardization across the teams with respect to automation. + Lead and contribute to design discussions about test frameworks and test scripts. + Execute automated tests, analyze and report results as needed. + Help the team build meaningful test data sets based upon real-world production data that mimics how our customers use our products. + Work with the team to understand & develop design and testing considerations, estimates and approach during our Agile SDLC (feature planning, grooming, etc) + Identify automation opportunities in the Validation process and work with our team to prioritize those / get them into the development backlog. + Benchmark (performance) critical areas in our products, identify any bottlenecks that can be re-architected for speed increases and work to get them into the team backlog. + Work with the team to enhance the automation framework to increase reliability, usability and performance of the automated solution. + Coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team. + Collaborate with other Developers, Test Engineers and Business Analysts. + Actively participate in the Scrum ceremonies. **Your Competencies:** + Extensive automation experience coming from a strong development background (SDET) + Experience with testing tools such as Cucumber, Rest Assured, Cypress, Selenium, etc.. + Advanced skills in test design and coverage. + Experience of API and UI Test automation + Experience working with code repositories such as GitHub. + Experience with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins/Travis. + Ability to see the big picture from the user perspective. + Experience with 21 CFR Part 11 compliant testing processes would be a plus + Strong communication skills. + Strong ability to multitask; manage and prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously. + Be a problem solver - find creative solutions for tough problems. + Be a critical thinker. **Your Education:** + Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems; or equivalent experience Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform. Medidata's solutions have powered over 14,000 clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner. _MDSOL Europe Ltd is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, gender, gender reassignment, age, religion or belief, relationship status, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation or disability._