Associate System Analyst

Career CategoryInformation SystemsJob DescriptionJoin Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will demonstrate domain and business process expertise to create test plans & test scripts for software development teams and implement testing activities.

This role involves working closely with Product Owner, Business analysts, and Developers to ensure that technical requirements for upcoming development are thoroughly elaborated and tested. This enables delivery team to estimate, plan, and commit to delivery with high confidence and identify test cases and scenarios to ensure quality and performance of IT Systems. This role will collaborate with Product Owner and developers to maintain an efficient and consistent testing process, ensuring quality deliverables from the team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Owners and customers to define testing scope and approach.
• Validate that test scenarios meet feature acceptance criteria and customer expectations.
• Design, develop, and implement test plans to ensure all the business requirements are met with required quality and consistency.
• Write and implement test cases in HP ALM (or equivalent tool), ensuring full coverage of functionalities.
• Perform SQL queries and scripting to verify accuracy across multiple environments.
• Identify, report, and track database defects and inconsistencies.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, and developers to understand and test requirements.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 0 to 3 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR
• Diploma and 4 to 7 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Experience in creating and implementing validation protocols (e.g., Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ))
• Experience with testing and validation tools, and testing frameworks
• Experience in test case authoring and execution using Veeva VVM, HP ALM (or similar tools)
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum)

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with GxP, CFR 21 Part 11 and systems validation
• Experience in database testing, ETL testing, or related fields.
• Strong expertise in SQL and hands-on experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Experience as a business analyst, with command of business analysis techniques & tools, as well as SDLC & iterative systems development methodologies
• Testing experience on Veeva Clinical Operations suite of application

Professional Certifications:

• SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent analytical and gap/fit assessment skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team. careers.amgen.com

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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