Associate Director, Software Quality and Testing

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Parexel

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategic transformation, modernisation and operational delivery of Quality Engineering (QE), testing, automation and quality assurance capabilities across Parexel’s global Data & Technology (D&T) organisation • Own and execute the enterprise Quality Engineering strategy across Data & Technology, positioning QE as a strategic business enabler across Parexel • Oversee enterprise-wide testing and QE delivery across regulated and non-regulated systems • Establish standards for test planning, execution, automation, traceability, evidence management, defect governance, quality gates and release readiness • Own enterprise automation engineering frameworks, standards and tooling strategies that increase automation coverage, reusability and efficiency • Lead globally distributed QE delivery teams, including vendor-supplied resources, offshore teams and strategic partners • Ensure QE practices align to regulatory expectations, GxP requirements and enterprise quality standards where applicable • Build, lead and develop high-performing global QE and testing teams across multiple functions and geographies • Partner with Business, senior D&T, Quality, Engineering and Operational leaders to align QE strategy with enterprise objectives • Lead enterprise quality improvement programmes focused on efficiency, effectiveness, customer experience and speed to market

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Quality Engineering or related discipline required • Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, PMP, SAFe, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma or equivalent preferred • Strategic leader with proven ability to drive organisational transformation, large-scale change, operational excellence and continuous improvement across complex global environments • Deep Quality Engineering expertise spanning enterprise testing methodologies, automation frameworks, tooling ecosystems, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and modern engineering practices • Strong capability in regulated system delivery, GxP environments, vendor governance, global delivery models and risk-based quality oversight • Advanced leadership, coaching, people management, budget/resource management and organisational capability-building skills • Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, influencing, negotiation, business acumen and ability to balance innovation, speed, quality and compliance

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Car allowance • Bonus • Holiday • Other leading benefits