By clicking the “Apply” button, I understand that my employment application process with Takeda will commence and that the information I provide in my application will be processed in line with Takeda’s Privacy Notice and Terms of Use . I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge. **Job Description** **_OBJECTIVES / PURPOSE_** + As a Senior Software Test Engineer, you'll use your technical, teamwork and team leading 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. **_ACCOUNTABILITIES_** + Lead and coordinate various testing activities. + 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. + Cooperate with other teams to understand full end-to-end use-cases to meet cross-functional requirements. + Define, inform, and educate the team on best practices for test-driven development, automated testing methodologies, development workflow improvements, continuous integration/deployment, and release management. + Create test approaches, test plans, test scenarios, test cases and automated test scripts for new or changed software. + 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. **_EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS_** + Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or other relevant work experience. + 5+ years of relevant professional hands-on experience in software testing on agile projects with a focus on team leading and test automation (preferably using tools such as Jira, qTest & Tosca). + Experience with test planning and set-up of test strategies. + Experience in testing web services. + Solid experience with relational databases and/or NoSQL. + Good experience with testing in the cloud. + Excellent leadership, communication and presentation skills. + Able to collaborate across multiple time zones. + Interest in the newest testing and test automation trends and best practices. + Very good in analyzing problems and developing solutions. + Excellent in both oral and written communication in English. + Team player with innovative thinking. **_ADDITIONAL INFORMATION_** + Access to transportation to attend meetings + Ability to fly to meetings regionally and globally Travel Requirements – **Locations** IND - Bengaluru **Worker Type** Employee **Worker Sub-Type** Regular **Time Type** Full time