IT Testing Lead, R&D IT (Testing Center of Excellence)

This position will ensure building strong collaborative relationship with the business and technical teams to prioritize and coordinate testing and automation deliverables. An important aspect of this role will be to implement test automation in HP UFT as a standard practice at Biogen by collaborating with internal and external development teams.

This individual must be a self-starter with high energy and possess the drive to meet the needs of a demanding environment. The successful candidate must have a proven record of accomplishment, and have prior experience working with a QM team leading Automation and Performance Testing. The candidate must have well rounded skills that include a strong focus on service, managing execution, and delivering results.

Primary Responsibilities

Provide supervision for direct reports including hired services contractors.

Manage resource scheduling and task execution to plans and objectives. Maintain a high-level understanding of dependencies that could lead to scheduling risks.

Regular review of Quality Metrics with business and technical teams to drive quality management best practices through all phases of Systems Development Life Cycle.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology, business processes and practices to continually improve applications and systems processes.

Provide input into the long-range planning which may include requirements for hardware, software, and/or technical resources while protect current investments.

Provide input into annual cost center and project budgets.

Ensure all areas of responsibility are fully operational, maintaining stability, reliability, and sustainability.

Ensure successful and timely delivery of all project components within area of responsibility following methodologies, standards and strategies.

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5-8 years of proven R&D Lead experience in coordinating and executing test activities on medium to large projects.

2-3 years of proven R&D IT experience.

Strong problem solving and analytical skills; ability to analyze complex technical problems.

Biogen is looking for an experienced R&D IT professional to lead Research & Clinical Development and Applications and Platforms expertise in testing automation for Biogen TCoE. This position will work with the TCoE vendor to build a high performing team of technical R&D and Clinical resources.