Senior Test Lead

Your responsibilities:

• Translate the AI Control Towers functional and technical requirements into detailed, traceable test cases and scenarios.

• Plan, execute, and document test cycles across the PoC (installation, functional, integration, performance, and security testing).

• Validate vendor self-assessment responses against the requirements checklist and flag gaps or discrepancies.

• Support and verify endpoint installation testing across the pilot user cohort (up to 50% of end users during PoC).

• Test and confirm core governance capabilities — runtime AI governance, risk/impact evaluation, monitoring and observability — behave as specified.

• Log, prioritize, and track defects and issues through resolution, coordinating directly with vendors technical teams.

• Coordinate with dependent teams within RO to align on resource needs and testing dependencies after each submission milestone.

• Contribute to defining the Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR) for the team's Kanban board.

• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the pilot end-user cohort and capture structured feedback.

• Verify that audit trails, logs, and compliance reporting outputs meet Roche's evidentiary and regulatory needs.

• Prepare clear, concise QA status reporting for AI Control Tower stakeholders, procurement, and leadership."

We are looking for you, if you have:

• Must have - hands-on experience in testing AI/SaaS platforms.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• 3+ years of QA / software testing experience, ideally involving enterprise platform rollouts or vendor PoCs.

• Demonstrated experience writing test plans and test cases directly from functional and technical requirements.

• Working experience with defect/issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira) and Kanban-based ways of working.

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and clear written documentation.

• Fluent English, written and spoken; comfortable working with cross-functional and multi-vendors teams.

• Test planning, execution, and requirements traceability.

• Defect management and root-cause coordination with vendors.

• Stakeholder communication across business, procurement, and technical teams.

• Structured, evidence-based reporting.

• Comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving, PoC-stage environment.

Nice to have:

• Prior exposure to AI/ML systems, AI governance, or model-risk testing.

• Familiarity with recognized AI governance frameworks

• Experience in a regulated industry (e.g., pharmaceutical)

• Experience testing endpoint-deployed software across a large, distributed user base.

• Agile/Scrum or Kanban delivery experience within a small, cross-functional team.

We offer:

• Participation in interesting and demanding projects.

• Flexible working hours.

• A great, non-corporate atmosphere.

• Possibility to work remote or hybrid (2 days per week from the office).

• Opportunities for development and promotion.

• Attractive package of benefits.

We reserve the right to contact the selected candidates.