Purpose:
Uniphar are embarking on an ambitious, multi-year technology transformation program and are seeking an experienced ‘Senior Automation Engineer’ to join our team. Operating within the Project Management Office, the position is a pivotal role which has high visibility and influence within the wider transformation program.
Uniphar Background
Uniphar group is a rapidly expanding global healthcare services business with a proud heritage in Ireland. Since IPO in 2019, the group has grown both organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continues to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of over 3000 spreads across Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Nordics and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world.
Uniphar provides outsourced and specialized services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organized into three key divisions; Supply Chain & Retail, Commercial & Clinical Med Tech / Pharma; and Product Access.
Culture at Uniphar
We pride ourselves in being truly entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, with a strong problem-solving ethos. We have built working relationships which span decades with many of the world’s largest pharma and MedTech companies. We believe that this is because we know how to build a relationship of trust with our partners - we put our customers and their patients at the heart of what we do and treat them with integrity and respect. Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people. As we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This rich diversity fuels our business and enriches our culture.
Key Responsibilities / Outcomes
•Support the Test Manager with all Governance related activities.
•Ensure the right automation approach is documented and agreed
•Possess An Automation First approach to deliverables.
•Have the ability to work with both Automation & Functional Test Teams.
•Comfortable analysing & agreeing tooling requirements with cross-functional team.
•Comfortable with setting up both UI and API testing frameworks.
•Comfortable allocating work to the Test Teams across a number of Projects, agreeing milestones for delivery with Teams, and measuring progress against those milestones.
Suggest Process and Tooling improvements on a go forward basis.
•Assist with Test Estimation Activities.
•Responsible for Reporting Progress & Issue Escalation on Project (s) to the Test Manager.
•Confident in influencing & driving the various Test Teams to deliver against challenging timelines.
•Work with the Quality Team to ensure CSV Compliance (Inc. artefacts for evidence).
•Assist with defining standards within Test Scripting, Execution & Regression.
•Collaborate with Functional Test Lead for cross-over Test Phases (e.g. Regression).
•Collaborative Approach – happy to work with Peers and Senior Stakeholders, and administer information to the Test Teams.
•Willingness to get involved in Test Scripting & Execution to assist the Automation Engineers in times of heavy workload.
•Demonstrate a Quality & Delivery mindset.
•Suggest Process and Tooling improvements on a go forward basis.
Qualifications & Experience
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years as a Senior Automation Tester in large-scale enterprise implementations.
- Experience coordinating multiple test teams to meet deliverables and quality requirements.
- Strong in-depth exposure to SDLC and STLC; comfortable with Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid.
- 4+ years writing functional automation scripts in C# or Java.
- 3+ years testing REST APIs.
- Experience in BDD/ATDD delivery environments, including mocking services to write acceptance tests.
- Experience with source control management (Git) and GitHub Actions for pipelines.
- Strong experience with CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
- Demonstrable experience of CSV and implementing projects in a GxP regulated environment (or Finance ISO standards as substitute).
- Solid understanding of test automation and non-functional testing.
- Experience mentoring testers and transferring knowledge.
- Ability to support governance activities, test estimation, reporting progress and issue escalation.
- Willingness to perform test scripting and execution to support teams during heavy workload.
- Strong communication, presentation skills, teamwork, and emotional intelligence.
- ISTQB or other QA certification (advantageous).
- Experience across ERP, WMS, CRM, eCommerce, mobile apps, HRIS, SAP (advantage).
- Experience on multi-year technology transformation programs (advantage).
What We Do
Uniphar is a diversified healthcare services organisation with activities in Ireland, UK, Europe, the USA and APAC
