Technical Lead QA Engineer

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Testing software is great, but testing software with a purpose is even better! As a QA Engineer, you’ll work on a product that helps people with the most precious thing they have — their health. In collaborative teams of developers, designers, product owners, and QA experts, you’ll experience best-in-class software development practices daily and contribute to software that meets the highest expectations — we do not put our users' lives at risk!

Here’s what we’re looking for:

We are looking for an experienced Automation QA Engineer to help us build up our capabilities for internal testing and tooling. As an experienced and entrepreneurial QA Tester, you will support our efforts to make diabetes suck less. You will primarily be working in a global set-up with teams in India, Austria, and Spain. Your area of expertise should span from back/front-end technologies and mobile applications. You will test applications that are fully integrated into a CI/CD pipeline and are based on the latest Java/React/Nativ.

Your upcoming mission:

• Use problem-solving and analytical skills to identify, isolate, and reproduce software defects.

• Work closely with all areas in the company to understand needs and provide innovative testing strategies

• Test and work with a powerful front/backend that stores our user data

• Help us make our tech processes more efficient, secure, and reliable

• Utilize and help improve our testing strategy and methods

• Drive towards testing excellence, measuring against key performance indicators that you help to establish, maintain, and work to improve the speed, predictability, quality, and flexibility of software testing

Essential skills for your mission:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

• At least 6+ years of experience in software QA test teams, including proactive collaboration with Agile delivery and global operational teammates

• Hands-on software test design, automated test development and execution, Experience working with automation frameworks, preferably in Java, using TestNG and Rest Assured.

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub actions)

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills to identify root causes of test failures in backend systems

• Ability to analyze and interpret REST API communication, including request and response payloads, HTTP status codes, and headers.

• Practical experience in writing and executing SQL queries for backend data verification, including joins, filters, and aggregations.

• Proficiency with tools like Slack/JIRA/Confluence

• Knowledge of Performance Testing using tools like JMeter, Postman, Katalon, etc…

• Professional Working Proficiency in English

Bonus skills:

• Experience with Backend Automation Testing (Java).

• Experience in Healthcare and LifeScience.

• Experience in the development of medical software.

• Experience with quality relevant standards such as ISO 13485.

• Familiarity with hosting services like AWS

• Experience working with a tech startup culture 

Here's what you can expect from us:

• Ambitious and passionate teammates building meaningful, life-changing products 

• An innovative, agile working environment allowing for collaboration with really smart people working in cross-functional teams 

• We welcome technical evangelists, so if you are interested in any thought leadership contributions (blogs, conferences, publications, etc…) within the realm of the organization, we are happy to support you.

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Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.