Job Title
Software Test Architect – AzurionEye Data Workbench
Job Description
Software Test Architect – Data Workbench
In this role, you will have the opportunity to join the leading innovator in image-guided therapy solutions as Software Test Architect for the AzurionEye solution – an integrated, AI-enabled software platform. You will be responsible for defining and developing test architecture for REST‑based, microservice‑first applications that power our clinical data lake platform. You will pair hands‑on technical depth with system‑level thinking to deliver reliable, scalable data services that power imaging workflows and connected solutions.
You will be part of the Image Guided Therapy Systems business unit with development sites in the Netherlands, China and India. This business unit is responsible for marketing, service, development and manufacturing of solutions and products used in minimally invasive procedures. You will join the global R&D department.
Your Role:
- Execute software testing activities, both automated and manual, throughout the development cycle within agile or scrum teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables that meet customer needs.
- Define the test strategy for products and platforms, ensuring coverage of functional, non‑functional, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Offers expertise in implementing software test strategies and initiatives at the feature and system levels, contributing to the overall quality assurance process.
- Reviews functional and non-functional requirements, stories, and features to ensure accuracy and testability, providing valuable insights to enhance the testing process.
- Collaborates with scrum teams and other stakeholders on test planning, participating in testing, planning, and demo activities to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Executes a diverse range of testing methodologies, encompassing functional, performance, load, and reliability testing, to meticulously validate the software's functionality and robustness across different usage scenarios and conditions.
- Utilizes automation tools, simulation models, test frameworks, and scripting languages to automate tests and streamline the testing process, improving efficiency and accuracy.
- Documents meticulously crafted test plans, protocols, and reports, maintaining thorough records of testing activities and outcomes to facilitate comprehensive reference and analysis, thereby ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the testing process.
- Supports design changes by rigorously assessing their potential impact on product quality, strategizing and implementing appropriate testing measures to uphold product integrity and mitigate risks effectively.
- Exhibits a deep understanding of data requirements and AI model metrics, actively contributing to the validation and testing processes of AI-based products and solutions, preparing the AI Model validation dataset.
- Harnesses valuable insights from customer knowledge to inform testing strategies and prioritize test scenarios effectively, aligning testing efforts closely with customer expectations and needs to enhance product usability and satisfaction.
- Establish the end‑to‑end test architecture aligned with system‑level and software architecture. Ensure the test architecture supports continuous integration, continuous delivery, and test‑first principles.
- Define frameworks, patterns, tools, and automation strategies that ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across scrum teams.
- Coach developers and testers on advanced testing techniques, tools, and automation best practices.
- Conduct training, design reviews, and quality audits to ensure continuous improvement.
- Design and develop software testing (automated and manual) within the systems/agile/scrum team throughout the whole development cycle ensuring built-in quality
- Review (functional and non-functional) requirements/stories/features for accuracy and testability
- Consult within scrum or other teams on test planning and participates in scrum team testing, planning and demo activities
- Testing all aspects of the web application product/system like functional/component, system, requirement, performance, regression and service.
- Setting up test environments, designing test plans, developing test cases/scenarios/usage cases, and executing these cases.
- Providing feedback on usability and serviceability, trace the result to quality risk and report it to concerned people
- Ensure test approaches meet Philips quality standards, regulatory expectations, cybersecurity controls, and documentation requirements.
- Maintain traceability from requirements to tests, defects, and product increments.
You are fit if:
- BE, BTech or MTech in Computer Science Engineering, Information technology, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in Software automation testing with 2+ years as a software test architect
- Proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, and documentation with high-quality outcomes.
- Thrives in an agile, entrepreneurial, start‑up–like environment with strong ownership, learning mindset and the drive to rapidly iterate, validate and deliver customer centric solutions.
- Experience in API automation using frameworks like Postman/RestAssure
- Experience in automation testing of microservice, cloud-based application using frameworks like Selenium, playwright or similar.
- Experience in Python, WASM and CI/CD
- Experience/exposure to BDD using tools like Cucumber
- Experience in building non-functional automation scripts for performance, reliability, resilience tests
- Experience with design and coding in object-oriented programming languages like C++ is a plus
- Experience with Git, Azure Dev Ops
How we work together:
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This role is an office-based role.
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