Senior Consultant

Title: Sr. DevOps Test Engineer for EDC

Level: D

Location: Chennai

Job description:

AstraZeneca is currently looking for EDC Functional Test Engineer to join our R&D IT: EDC Product Team to help support, manage and maintain our EDC product along with it’s numerous integration products. AZ’s EDC System is Medidata’s Rave, and at AZ is GxP compliant and part of Clinical Development Platforms and is used across late science teams across all therapeutic areas. You will be a part of our BizDevOps team therefore will be responsible to work cross functionally with other team members such as Product Lead, DevOps Lead and Release manager & other technical engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate key discussions with various stakeholders as requested by system owner/platform lead and provide SME technical support on system testing of the Core EDC Product, and any data integrations (in and out) of EDC.
• Perform impact analysis for any change that happens on the EDC system
• Work with business and perform risk assessment during change implementations/ system upgrades or updates to integrations
• Follow and participate in validation lifecycle for upgrades, changes, & new integrations
• Co-develop validation packages in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Provide support of code review and solutioning for downstream customer requirements, including data extraction methods (SQL, Webservices, APIs)
• Actively participate in business meetings and bring new ideas to the table
• Responsible to solve day-to-day incidents, service requests and work towards incident-reduction and automation. Also, update Service Now (ticket management tool) for all events with respect to the incidents, service requests, changes and problems.
• Constantly thrive to learn and upskill according to the organization’s goals and demands.
• Create Gxp Validation Test cases in Jira Xray for system/upgrade testing
• Perform validation test executions in Jira Xray, for both system testing and regression testing.
• Assist in creating or create UAT test cases that cover the essential business scenarios/use cases for the business.

Mandatory Skills

• Extensive experience of using Medidata RAVE UI (Classic or Rave EDC) to perform the following actions:
• Study build, edit checks programming, deployment to production and migration
• Understanding about different roles and permissions in Rave
• Understanding of core configuration and clinical views
• Understanding of what data extraction capabilities there are
• Hands on Experience of Inbound Rave Web Services (eg IVRS or discrepancy inputs)
• Experience of setting up Rave safety gateway (RSG) and SAE notifications
• Experience of setting up SAS extracts
• Experience on setting up Target Source Data Verification (TSDV)
• Hands on experience of being involved in URL upgrade(s) (Medidata release updates)
• Knowledge on system validation process / Application Life Cycle Management
• Must have good communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Responsible to work on technical tasks to keep the Rave URL(s) and it’s integrations in a maintained state
• Adhere to AZ core ITIL guidelines and perform tasks as incident, change, problem etc.
• Working experience in clinical standard and data collection, clinical data conversion or clinical data programming/testing.
• Understanding of CDASH, SDTM, ADaM CDISC controlled Terminology and FDA/ICH guidelines for clinical study data

Preferred Skills

• Hands on Experience of custom function, SAS programming
• Knowledge on Coder / Coder+ setup & Lab setup
• Hands on Experience of outbound Rave Web Services (ODM Adapter, Biostats Adapter)
• Hands on Experience of Rave backend data model, sql script writing, stored procedures
• Hands-on knowledge in agile management tools like Service NOW
• Hands-on experience in performing system testing including authoring and accomplishing test cases
• Passion for learning, innovating, and delivering valuable software to people.
• Any other programming languages/technical skills e.g: Python, JAVA, etc.
• Knowledge of other Medidata products and/or Cloud
• EDC testing (Rave/Inform/Veeva) experience.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science or life science related field with IT/CRO/Pharma experience with total of 12+ years of experience

Our Working Environment

At AstraZeneca, you will have the opportunity to grow and innovate within a rapidly evolving portfolio. Our entrepreneurial culture encourages ownership, collaboration, and new ideas. Supported by experienced leaders and colleagues, you will help advance our mission for patients while developing your expertise in an inclusive environment that values integrity, innovation, and different perspectives.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and join our ambitious team.

AstraZeneca is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where every single person can belong because of their uniqueness. The Company will not make decisions about employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment based on race, color, religion, creed or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), parental status (including adoption or surrogacy), military status, protected veteran status, disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, genetic information, mental illness or other characteristics protected by law. AstraZeneca provides reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of candidates and employees.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.