Technical Specialist - Reliability & Automation

Job Title

Technical Specialist - Reliability & Automation

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Designs, develops, and maintains automation solutions (test framework, dashboards, and tools) to enable reliability and performance measurement, monitoring, and actionable insights into issues and anomalies.
• Owns domain-driven automation coverage and defines non-functional test strategies to ensure system reliability and performance through effective automated testing.
• Mentors and guides junior team members in the design and implementation of the solutions.
• Collaborates with the Test Automation Architect to explore and integrate AI-driven enhancements for test frameworks, analytics, and root-cause insights.
• Applies advanced testing techniques, including fault injection, concurrency, and stress testing, to identify critical reliability issues as required.
• Analyzes system-level impacts from feature-level dFMEAs and, in collaboration with the Test Architect, translates failure modes into targeted test scenarios, system-level designs, and automation solutions.
• Monitors field reliability issues and works with the Test Architect to continuously improve test strategies, coverage, and reliability-focused validation.
• Utilizes defect RCA findings and customer issue insights (e.g., defects, MREye) to strengthen integration test scenarios and expand coverage across relevant layers and test categories.
• Contributes to broader organizational quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

• B.E./Master’s degree in computer science/software/information technology with 6–8 years of experience in software development and design.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts, design patterns and SOLID design principles
• Strong programming experience in C#, Python
• Solid understanding of OS fundamentals, threading, and memory management.
• Good understanding of Database concepts and working knowledge of SQL.
• Foundational knowledge of reliability and performance testing techniques.
• Hands-on experience with Windows internals and performance/debugging tools.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to work across diverse teams
• Continuous improvement mindset driven by Defect RCA and customer Issue insights.

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.
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About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.