Job ID285053BRPosition TitleHead of Quality Engineering, NIBR InformaticsApply to Job
Job Description
6,000 people dedicated to discovery - 6 research campuses across the globe.
As Head of the Quality Engineering department, your role is to lead a team of high performing quality engineers with a focus on test automation and ensuring a high software quality standard across our portfolio of applications.
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Novartis Institutes for BioMedical (NIBR) is the global pharmaceutical research organization of Novartis with a mission to discover innovative medicines that treat disease and human health. Our scientists need cutting-edge, state-of-the-art computing systems and NIBR Informatics (NX) is a strategic investment into informatics capabilities and positioning to deliver systems and services that are critical to the future of drug discovery.
NX is a global team of ~350 technology scientists and business professionals working across 5 sites, primarily Cambridge MA (USA) and Basel (Switzerland).
- Interview with NIBR CIO: www.novartis.com/stories/people-and-culture/qa-new-nibr-cio-dimitris-agrafiotis
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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
•Serve on the Engineering Leadership Team to define + ensure common process, standards and tools around software quality engineering are established and followed by their teams as well as
•Drive for high degrees of test automation and code coverage across our products.
•Working hands on as a quality engineer
•Participate in personnel management practices regarding recruitment and selection, adequate staffing, performance appraisals, education and training, and management development.
•Ensure an engaged, innovative, and inspiring working environment in the department by motivating, challenging, and coaching employees towards growth.
Minimum requirements
What you will bring to this role:
•BS/MS in Computer Science, Informatics or similar, or equivalent practical experience
•10 years minimum of hands-on software development experience with 3 years minimum in a managerial role and 3 years minimum with cloud and SaaS (Software as a Service) based solutions
•Prior experience as a software engineer or QA as well as leading technical teams
•Successful practical experience with Agile and Lean methodologies and knowledge of DevOps + Cloud technologies
•Strong organizational, problem-solving, and influencing skills with demonstrated track record of exceptional teamwork as well as excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
•Working knowledge of German or French a plus
•Ability to travel 25%
WHY CONSIDER NOVARTIS?
750 million. That’s how many lives our products touch. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are empowered to ask new questions, make bolder decisions and take smarter risks.
We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine.DivisionNIBRBusiness UnitCAO - NIBRLocationSwitzerlandSiteBaselCompany/Legal EntityNovartis Pharma AGFunctional AreaInformation TechnologyJob TypeFull TimeEmployment TypeRegularShift WorkNo
