QA Scientist - Hyderabad

The role

This person will design, implement, and administer testing strategies for Qt-based applications and workflow management tools. They will identify and report bugs, validate fixes and new features, and ensure product integrity, performance, and usability.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and administer testing strategies for Qt-based applications and workflow management tools
• Identify and report bugs and potential improvements
• Validate fixes and new features
• Ensure scientific integrity, performance, and usability of products

Required qualifications

• Master's degree in Chemistry (such as Physical, Theoretical, Medicinal, Materials Chemistry), Pharmacoinformatics, Physics, or a related discipline
• Zero to two years of experience in a role involving significant exposure to computers and software
• Strong analytical, logical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly motivated
• Comfortable working under deadlines
• Pay significant attention to detail
• Ability to be self-directed yet work well within a team

Nice to have

• Familiarity with force fields, QM/MM methodologies, and molecular modeling techniques, including molecular docking, geometry optimization, molecular dynamics, and protein structure modeling
• Experience with Python and shell scripting
• Prior exposure to Schrödinger software or other computational chemistry tools, such as NWChem or Gaussian
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle and software quality assurance practices
• Experience with Squish or other GUI testing tools

About the company

Schrödinger is on the cutting edge of Computer-Aided Drug Discovery and Materials Science, collaborating with companies like Takeda, Nimbus, Pfizer, and Sanofi.