Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world-class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient-focused culture to deliver life-changing innovations to those who need them most.
Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.
This role serves as both the technical architect and people leader for Edwards’ Test Automation Center of Excellence. This role will own automation architecture, modeling standards, toolchain governance, and delivery execution across JDE, Salesforce, and EW1. This role will evolve to include Process Mining & Mapping responsibilities in later phases once automation reaches early stability.
This position is an “onsite” role and will be based in “Pune, India”.
How you will make an impact:
• Define and govern enterprise automation architecture (modeling, reusable libraries, selectors/waits, API validations).
• Lead toolchain governance across Tosca, CI/CD, Execution Grid, Git, and Octane.
• Conduct technical reviews of models, components, data flows, and pipelines.
• Manage and mentor a multi-pod automation team across phases.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, and platform teams.
• Drive quarterly OKRs covering coverage, stability, MTTR, and execution performance.
• Manage vendor engagements and ensure toolchain stability.
• Oversee transition to Process Mining & Mapping as Phase 2/3 scope.
What you’ll need:
• 6–8 years in QA/TA with strong automation architecture experience.
• Hands-on mastery of model-based automation (Tosca or similar).
• Strong CI/CD pipeline and parallel execution expertise.
• ERP/CRM testing experience (JDE, Salesforce).
• Strong Git discipline and code review capabilities.
• Proven ability to stabilize regressions and design test data solutions.
What else we look for:
• Ability to lead a 10–12 FTE technical team.
• Strong stakeholder communication and roadmap ownership.
• Experience building CoE capabilities from the ground up.
• Future Scope: Establish Process Mining & Mapping capabilities after Phase 2–3.
