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# Principal Engineer - Test Automation (CDMS) at Veeva Systems

- **Company:** Veeva Systems
- **Location:** Hyderabad, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2022-11-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/veeva/a086f98f-f7a8-4dc4-8cfa-74b86434dcec

## Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

## The Role

Do you dream about being part of a team with the talent, passion, and financial backing to build top-notch, industry-changing, cloud-based applications and platforms? At Veeva, we build enterprise cloud technology that powers the biggest names in pharmaceuticals, biotech, consumer goods, chemical & cosmetics industries. Our customers make vaccines, life-saving medicines, and life-enhancing products that make a difference in everyday lives. Our technology has transformed these industries, enabling them to get critical products and services to market faster. Our products empower our customers in the fight against global pandemics like COVID-19.

## What You'll Do

- Learn and understand features of Veeva Vault platform and applications
- Work on CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, JIRA) on a daily basis
- Develop and maintain automation scripts (API and UI)
- Communicating status and working effectively with onshore/offshore managers
- Troubleshoot day to day technical issues related to test automation
- Perform code reviews and be a  technical mentor to team members
- Work with managers to arrive at metrics for measuring the code quality for test automation suite
- Work closely with scrum masters on sprint plannings and backlog grooming
- Be a key player for the growth of Veeva Hyderabad by contributing to  recruiting initiatives

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience in software test automation
- Strong technical leadership abilities and project management experience
- Provide a practical approach to complex testing, specifically in the areas of the automation of test cases for the purposes of regression testing
- Proficient in QA process & methodologies, tools, and different testing approaches
- Strong experience in Java, Object-Oriented Methodologies
- Strong experience with automated test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber)
- Strong experience in testing Restful API & HTTP web services, JSON/XML, and Web-based applications
- Good working knowledge of CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, JIRA)
- Experience in Mobile Testing and Automation – Appium, XCUI, Espresso, KI
- Experience in Mobile Apps Development (Android/iOS)
- Experience with data analytics and log analysis tools such as Kibana, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Able to lead multiple implementations
- Collaborate to gather automation requirements, design automated tests and implement scalable test automation solutions
- Design, develop and manage automated testing artifacts
- Comfortable debugging and working with object-oriented programming
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies (preferably in an onshore /offshore model)
- Experience working for a product-based company
- Excellent team collaboration and effective communication skills
- Experience playing a technical mentor role to the team and performing code reviews
- Experience leading automation projects in a technical role and actively participating in overall program/project management activities
- Experience with applicable software and programs, including Kotlin, Swift, JAVA, and React
- Fluency in interfacing and functional testing
- A natural problem solver and critical thinker
- Knowledge of modern best practices for software development, including IDE, source control, build processes, release management, and deployment
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Android and Mac platforms

## Perks & Benefits

- Health insurance with generous coverage limits
- Fixed bonus
- Allowance for wellness & fitness programs
- Winter break

#LI-Principal

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.

## About Veeva Systems

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Veeva Systems builds the industry cloud for life sciences — cloud software, AI, industry-specific data, and consulting that help pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies bring therapies to market faster.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: VEEV), converted to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) in February 2021 — the first public company to do so
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, USA (4280 Hacienda Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Peter Gassner and Matt Wallach

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Life sciences technology / healthcare IT — serving R&D, clinical, regulatory, quality, safety, and commercial functions
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise — pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies; over 1,000 customers globally
- **Mission/purpose**: "Building the Industry Cloud for Life Sciences" — helping the industry become more efficient and effective so it can focus on creating quality products in shorter time frames while maintaining compliance

## Products & Services
- **Veeva Vault Platform**: The core cloud platform with applications for Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Safety — consolidating critical processes in one central system to accelerate study timelines, streamline regulatory processes, and unify quality and safety operations.
- **Veeva AI**: Agentic AI added to the Veeva Vault platform, with deep, industry-specific agents for Veeva applications — designed to connect sponsors, sites, patients, and regulators more effectively and increase industry productivity.
- **Commercial Solutions**: Applications, data, and analytics for marketing and commercial teams to maximize campaign performance.
- **Consulting Services**: Business consulting alongside software, data, and AI to support customers' most critical business processes from R&D through commercialization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded (NYSE: VEEV); specific market cap not stated in cited sources.
- **Key Metric**: 975+ customers (careers site) / 1,000+ customers (corporate site); close to 8,000 employees at end of fiscal 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in cited sources; as a public company with an extensive partner ecosystem supporting its cloud solutions.
- **Growth Signals**: Added a net 637 employees in fiscal 2026, ending the year with close to 8,000 employees; launched Veeva AI as a major portfolio expansion; has grown steadily "without the need for significant layoffs historically"; product hubs span Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-specific depth**: Unlike generic enterprise software, Veeva is built exclusively for the highly regulated life sciences industry, covering the full value chain from clinical through commercial.
- **Public Benefit Corporation structure**: Legally obligated to balance shareholder interests with customers, employees, partners, the life sciences industry, and communities — a durable differentiator in talent and customer trust.
- **Scale and switching costs**: Deep integration across R&D, quality, regulatory, and commercial workflows for over 1,000 customers creates significant lock-in.
- **No non-compete agreements**: Veeva does not require employees to sign non-competes and has taken legal action to fight their unfair use — a strong cultural and recruiting advantage.
- **Clear values in priority order**: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, Speed.

## Strategic Focus
- **Industry cloud expansion**: Continuing to build out the full industry cloud — software, AI, data, and consulting — to become "essential to and appreciated by" the life sciences industry.
- **Veeva AI rollout**: Making agentic AI a transformative layer across the Vault platform to increase innovation and productivity from drug development through commercialization.
- **High-quality job creation**: Investing in people with tech-enabled hiring tools, manager training (with direct CEO involvement), and fair, flexible employment — while maintaining steady, measured growth without significant layoffs.
- **Long-term durable growth**: Operating as a PBC with a commitment to the life sciences industry's critical functions.

## Why Work Here
- **Work Anywhere policy**: Employees can work from home or the office on any given day; product teams are organized in regional hubs (Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, Toronto) with regular in-person collaboration.
- **Culture and values**: Collaborative environment where employees are "treated with respect" and supported to "captain their own ship" toward growth; values are explicitly prioritized: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, Speed.
- **Giving back**: 1% Veeva Giving program — each employee receives an amount equal to 1% of their base salary annually to donate to non-profits of their choice; giving is entirely employee-driven.
- **Equity for employees**: Equity program designed so the vast majority of employees participate and benefit financially in the company's growth.
- **No non-compete clauses**: Employees are free to work where they choose, and the company actively fights unfair non-compete practices in the industry.
- **Stability with growth**: "Measured and thoughtful" hiring that has historically avoided significant layoffs, with net headcount growth of 637 in fiscal 2026.
- **Meaningful work**: Directly supports life sciences companies in their mission to improve and extend life.

## Sources
1. [veeva.com](https://www.veeva.com/)
2. [careers.veeva.com](https://careers.veeva.com/)
3. [careers.veeva.com — Why Veeva](https://careers.veeva.com/why-veeva/)
4. [veeva.com — Corporate Citizenship](https://www.veeva.com/corporate-citizenship/)
5. [2026 Public Benefit Corporation Report (PDF)](https://www.veeva.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-PBC-Report.pdf)

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