Senior Architect - Test Automation

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You are a part of the department System Test Automation within the System Development Cluster (SDC) of the Business Unit (BU) IGT Systems within Philips. This BU is responsible for marketing, development and manufacturing of X-ray systems in the area of minimally invasive interventions.

Within SDC, you will be the technical lead of the System Test Automation team.

The team is responsible for the definition, setup, implementation and maintenance of the Automatic Test Frameworks and Scripts.

Your role:

• Drive the implementation of Test Automation roadmap, including new tools and platforms
• Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership to the team
• Communicate with stakeholders, escalate or remove impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement
• Gaining agreements on and achieving program goals and objectives, balancing, and managing the project scope (including requirements), schedule, budget, quality, resources, and risks for all sustaining program activities
• Leading diverse project team(s), empowering the team members to become efficient and effective.
• Building partnerships with the program stakeholders (both internal and external), leverage them to achieve organizational goals, and able to influence their opinions and negotiate effective solutions.
• Investigating customer expectations and responding to their feedback
• Monitoring program/project activities, appropriately balancing risk taking and issue escalation and setting up detailed progress / escalation reports (including suggested corrective actions) for the project steering team.
• Keeping knowledge up to date and translate new trends like Model Based Testing, AI towards our high-tech environment
• Coaching and mentoring team members on automation and processes.             
• Having expertise in development, testing and debugging skills

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You're the right fit if: (4 x bullets max)

• Master degree in Software Engineering
• 15+ years of proved experience in Software development/Test Automation in a complex high tech environment
• Knowledge of the latest trends in Test Automation
• Experience with GIT/Artifactory/ADS/C#/Specflow
• Experience with server based applications
• Experience with setting up and maintaining a test automation infrastructure
• Strong quality drive
• Ability to create documentation deliverables (unit and validation documentation)
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in leading people
• Working in global team, with different cultures
• Capable in driving change and in introducing new technologies, new products and new ways of working
• You are good communicator and a good listener, capable of interacting at all levels in the organization
• You have an improvement attitude and you lead through example
• Fluent in English, written and verbal

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