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The PositionRole OverviewWe are seeking a skilled and proactive QA / Test Automation Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be a champion for product excellence, ensuring our software meets strict quality standards and exceeds customer expectations. You will be responsible for the end-to-end testing lifecycle—from analyzing requirements and designing robust test strategies to coding automated test suites and fostering a "built-in quality" mindset across the organization.
Your Main Tasks & Duties- Test Strategy & Execution: Compose, execute, and assess functional and non-functional tests aligned with the defined test strategy to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction. + Requirements & Design Review: Review the product backlog, requirements, and specifications for clarity, testability, and traceability. Analyze system designs and architecture with a sharp eye for code quality, risks, and testability.
- Test Case Management: Create, maintain, and review test cases for software across all lifecycle phases within our designated tooling and documentation standards + Test Automation: Build software that tests software by writing automated test code or integrating robust third-party tools into our existing test suites.
- Environment & Infrastructure Management: Configure, manage, and maintain stable and scalable Test Environments + Defect Tracking & Metrics: Execute test cases, analyze results, report/track issues, and verify incoming fixes. Define and monitor relevant quality metrics to track overall product health.
- Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation under your responsibility (including test cases, test results, tooling guides, and best practices).
- Risk & Compliance: Collaborate on product risk assessments by identifying potential failures and ensuring adequate test coverage. Guarantee strict adherence to quality standards, relevant Quality Assurance Plans (QAPs), SOPs, and Working Instructions.
- Process Optimization: Provide continuous input to improve testing processes and overall efficiency, heavily leveraging test automation where appropriate.
- QA Initiatives: Actively participate in internal testing improvement initiatives to elevate our engineering standards.
- Mentorship & Culture: Share, coach, and actively train team members both within and outside the department to promote a strong built-in quality mindset.
Who you are
- Experience: Proven experience as a QA Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, or in a similar software testing role.
- Automation Skills: Experience building test frameworks via code (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript) or integrating modern third-party automation tools.
- Analytical Mindset: Strong ability to review architectural designs, pinpoint technical risks, and ensure full test traceability.
- Compliance Awareness: Familiarity working within structured environments governed by SOPs, QAPs, and strict quality guidelines is a plus.
- Soft Skills: Excellent collaboration, communication, and coaching skills to advocate for quality across cross-functional teams.
There is a preferred candidate.
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.
Skills Required
- Proven experience as a QA Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, or similar
- Experience building test frameworks via code (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript) or integrating automation tools
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and coaching skills
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
