Sr Manager I – Test

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Job title: Sr Manager I – Test

Company: Philips

Job description: Job Title Sr Manager I – Test

Job Description

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

Your Challenge

The position provides the successful candidate with an immediate opportunity to be involved with the development and manufacture of technology that is helping to save lives, improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of medical care across the globe. The technology is a cornerstone in the Philips Healthtech portfolio and has proven to be elusive to our competitors. As an international organization, Philips is well placed to offer a broad range of technical and leadership opportunities in various organizations throughout the world.

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Manage different functional/competency teams, units and respective budgets within R&D software development focused on shaping and delivering new or upgrading existing software that will combine our strong current products and actively focus on creating new solutions to our customers. You will play a vital role within a profitable business as well as competitive and top in the marketing. Being part of our team gives you the opportunity to improve the delivery of care every day and with that, touch millions of lives around the world via our beautiful products.

You are responsible for

  • Executing on the organization’s strategy, providing clearly defined success

criteria and levels of accountability for individuals in the team. * Removing impediments for the progress of the teams and acts as an escalation point

  • Consistently delivering high Quality software at a sustainable speed maintaining an advanced level of software craftsmanship as established by the SW CoE.
  • Managing inter-disciplinary team comprising System Verification Engineers, Technical Test engineers, Automation Test Engineers and Clinical Test Specialists.
  • Provide direction to different sub-group leads on test and resource/lab planning, clinical site selection and contracts preparation.
  • Technically review various Verification plans & reports of system verification, reliability, AST, Tech Comm. groups on various new products and sustaining releases of value segment ultrasound.
  • Approve all Test Data, Test Procedures and project documents per Engineering Manager Role.
  • As a people manager, regular one-one with team, mentoring & coaching to drive growth of team-members.
  • Work well under pressure to get the job done per established processes, ensuring 100% compliance.
  • Manage budgets to maintain /ramp-up lab infrastructure
  • Demonstrate Leadership and delegate appropriate tasks to the correct team experts.
  • Understand and implement any required /new processes for continual improvement (CMMI, lean, automation, tools etc.)
  • Collaborate with other system test groups across healthcare groups at PIC.
  • Using best in class practices regarding recruitment and selection, adequate staffing, remuneration, goal setting and performance appraisals and people development.
  • Using technical content and deliverables as well as feedback from others when appropriate
  • Driving an engaged, innovative, and inspiring working environment in the teams by motivating, challenging and coaching employees.
  • Actively managing the portfolio of resources, tools and training to accomplish current and future key objectives.
  • Managing the needed capabilities whilst developing and maintaining a long-term view on the required competences and knowledge.
  • Contributing to the technical innovation of the product and/or systems, which the teams are accountable for by providing insights, hands-on technical reviews and continuous feedback.
  • Staying up-to-date on the relevant technology domain. Enjoying self-learning and bringing new technical practices and innovations to the team.
  • Collaborating with relevant internal and external parties establishing an effective network to obtain input on technological developments, identifying trends and opportunities.
  • Executing on continuous improvement in processes and ways of working to achieve operational excellence.
  • Making informed business and technical decisions quickly as the result of well-directed data gathering, effective analysis and good judgement.
  • Balancing the tension between daily tasks and the long-term strategic vision of the organization.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

  • Master/Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline
  • 14+ years of software engineering experience with 6+ years of experience in people management
  • People management experience of an 18+ members engineering team is key
  • Experience in API automation using frameworks like Postman/RestAssure
  • Experience in Web application automation using frameworks like Selenium
  • 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, specifically Java and JavaScript
  • Experience in Agile WoW is a big plus
  • Test Automation Experience with emphasis on Proficient in instrument verification and validation testing-preferred
  • Solid experience in test automation, test plan/protocols, executing testing activities, generating, and analyzing test reports
  • Understanding of global medical device regulatory environments and clearance processes.
  • Good communication, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required, as well as the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  • Experience in influencing business stakeholders on software aspects to come to effective decisions
  • Ability to establish and maintain strong internal/external relationships
  • Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
  • Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization, in an international setup
  • Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
  • Excellent and inspiring leadership and communication skills
  • Development/leading development of complex Software teams in System domains
  • E2E Understanding in development of healthcare/similar complexity systems
  • Customer-focused, strong domain knowledge, team player and excellent communication skills.

In return, we offer you

A chance to serve a bigger purpose. At Philips, our mission to improve the lives of 3 billion people per year by 2025, and every day we move closer to achieving our goal by creating cutting-edge solutions that lead to confident diagnosis, improved care, and increased quality of life for patients drive us. We enable our employees to create a legacy in life through their work and support their development through people-centric learning, total rewards and personalized development planning programs. Our business provides unique opportunities to develop cutting edge enterprise software solutions and deliver meaningful solutions in the healthcare space and this new position is a unique opportunity to shape the next generation solutions we are developing.

How we work at Philips
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There’s a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

Expected salary:

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Job date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 05:47:26 GMT

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