Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC seeks Senior Specialist, Software Engineering (multiple openings) to develop product vision and roadmaps that enable QE to deliver on its strategies. Work with various business, technical, and vendor stakeholders - including QE leadership - to discover opportunities and coordinate with other product owners to deliver solutions using Agile methodologies. Collaborate with systems engineers, software engineers, data services, architecture, test engineers, and operation engineers to enable the product strategy and continually evolve the product. Manage the full product life cycle to ensure that customer/user needs are met and that financial and other targets are achieved. Select, adopt, and adapt appropriate product development methods, tools, and techniques. Analyze market and/or user research, feedback, expert opinion, and usage data to understand needs and opportunities. Prioritize product and service requirements, develop product roadmaps, and own the product backlog. Anticipate changes in customer/user needs. Adapt products and create product retirement and transitioning plans. Partner with other product and engineering teams in global locations to come up with project plans and mitigate risks. Facilitate cross-functional work teams including external vendors to define project scope and objectives, develop preliminary project plan and design. Manage and track product development work, especially when the work spans multiple scrum / delivery teams. Work with system integrators, system vendors, and project team members to advise them on key architectural decisions concerning supporting technologies. Identify specific metrics and mechanisms to measure benefits and plans to activate these mechanisms at the required time. Monitor benefits against what was predicted in the business case. Identify specific metrics and mechanisms to measure benefits and plans to activate these mechanisms at the required time. Telecommuting permitted.LOCATION:Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, 126 E. Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065REQUIREMENTS:Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 7 years of experience in the position offered or a related software development, testing or operations role, or a Master’s degree in the above mentioned fields and 3 years of specified experience. Must have 3 years of experience with all of the following: leading distributed teams which are comprised of both internal and external resources located on and offshore; manager project in Agile (Scrum) development methodology; planning, organizing, and conducting assessment activity and determination whether appropriate quality control have been applied; working with Tricentis Tosca and LiveCompare; experience with Test management tools ALM and/or Xray; development or operations of Tricentis Tosca integration with test automation tools such as ALM and/or Xray; cloud products (AWS products/services such as API gateway, AppFlow, CloudWatch, Athena, S3, RDS, Lambda, or RedShift); GCP and Azure products and services; Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket; and SDLC processes. 10% domestic and international travel required. SUBMIT RESUME OR CONTACT:Apply at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en. Reference job R290064.