Specialist, HAM Release Specialist

Job Description

 Specialist, HAM Release Specialist 

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

The HAM Release Specialist is responsible for centralizing and strengthening delivery discipline across HAM-related ServiceNow enhancements. This role ensures predictable, high-quality releases by owning UAT script planning and maintenance, coordinating and improving regression testing, and standardizing monthly release notes communication. The position focuses on reducing production defects and hotfixes through rigorous testing practices, improving release predictability via clear scheduling, and enhancing stakeholder alignment throughout the release cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Release Planning & Communication
  • Establish and manage a release calendar for predictable delivery timelines.
  • Standardize and publish monthly release notes to communicate changes clearly to stakeholders.
  • Act as the central point of contact for all release-related inquiries and updates.
• Release Planning & Communication
  • Monitor and track a release calendars (core and operational releases) for predictable delivery timelines.
  • Standardize and publish monthly release notes to communicate changes clearly to stakeholders.
  • Act as the central point of contact for all release-related inquiries and updates.
• Reporting & Continuous Improvement
  • Track and report on release readiness, testing outcomes, and defect metrics.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance release processes and implement best practices.
• Release Management & Testing & Automation
  • Own and Execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for ServiceNow enhancements.
  • Cooperate with development team to coordinate, improve and maintain regression testing automation within ServiceNow to ensure comprehensive coverage
  • Collaborate with development teams to validate test cases and ensure all test cases are updated and aligned with each new enhancement or release
  • Drive test standardization to minimize production defects and reduce hotfix frequency.
• Incident Management
  • Support conversion of incidents into demands or bug fixes.
  • Assist in demand collection and prioritization activities.
  • Assist calculate and validate demand value to support business decisions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Technical Skills
  • ServiceNow Developer Knowledge with hands-on experience in platform configuration and scripting.
  • Understanding of Automate Pro for test automation.
• Analytical Skills
  • Strong ability to analyze data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights.
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and continuous improvement.
• Additional Competencies
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work within multiple priorities.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience in ServiceNow testing and automation.
• Familiarity with IT Service Management (ITSM) processes and demand lifecycle.
• ITIL Certification preferable

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Accountability, Administration Management, Audit Management, Business Process Improvements, Communication Management, Customer Experience Management, Data Modeling, Governance Management, Information Systems Strategy, Maintenance Management, Management Process, Production Readiness, Quality Assurance (QA), Regression Testing, Release Management, Scheduling, Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Test Management

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

03/6/2026

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