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Job Description
About the role:
As a Software Test Engineer, you'll use your technical and teamwork skills, knowledge of testing and test automation, DevSecOps tools and methods to help deploy and improve our solutions. You will align and integrate well with testers, developers, engineers, analysts, scrum masters, delivery managers and other stakeholders.
How you will contribute:
Review user stories and evaluate their acceptance criteria.
Work closely with others to recognize the potential for any operational issues, assess risks, and help to resolve issues before the new software is complete.
Review and contribute to test plans and test reports.
Cooperate with other teams to understand full end-to-end use-cases to meet cross-functional requirements.
Define test strategy, create System Test scenarios, test cases and regression test scripts for new or changed software.
Collaborate with the team to develop UAT scenarios, create test cases, and manage execution in the testing tool.
Implement software tests, using either manual or automated approaches, as well as exploratory testing.
Run diverse sets of tests on new or changed software products to ensure they satisfy all specifications and requirements and evaluate results.
Write detailed, high quality defect reports for any issues encountered during testing activities.
Provide feedback to team members and stakeholders regarding usability and functionality and provide understandable test reports.
What you bring to Takeda:
Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or other relevant work experience.
4+ years of relevant professional experience in software testing on agile projects with a focus on test automation (Any automation testing tool such as Selenium, Playwright, QTP, etc.)
Experience with test design and set-up of test approaches that match testing rigor with risk from failure.
Experience in testing web services and performance testing of applications.
Mindset to think of various failure modes (including corner cases) for an application, and critical thinking ability to break application in areas not comprehended by the developers.
Solid experience with relational databases and/or SQL, and testing of dashboards.
Good experience with testing SaaS and homegrown web-based applications hosted in the cloud.
Understanding and interest in the newest testing and test automation trends and best practices.
Good in analyzing problems and developing solutions.
Proficient in both oral and written communication in English. Follow good documentation practices for both test case and defect documentation.
Team player with innovative thinking.
What Takeda can offer you:
Competitive salary + Annual performance bonus
Monthly food and meal vouchers
Flexible work arrangements
Comprehensive health insurance plans: life, medical, dental, and vision
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs
Among other benefits…
More about us:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
Empowering our people to shine:
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law
