Quality Engineer Software

Philips International; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Quality Engineer Software to drive software quality across the lifecycle, from design through post-market. The role emphasizes rigorous documentation, design review, and regulatory alignment to ensure high-quality health-tech software.

The candidate should have 5-7 years of software quality experience, ISTQB certification, and strong analytical skills to guide cross-functional teams in quality engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications or equivalent/ Vocational Education.
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering.
• ISTQB certification.

Responsibilities

• Participates in development and maintenance of software quality documentation and SRS.
• Assesses software designs and tests to ensure quality, safety and regulatory compliance.
• Conducts root cause analysis to resolve quality deficiencies and improve processes.
• Validates usability, reliability, performance, safety, privacy and cost of software design inputs.
• Oversees execution of software quality plans and risk management across lifecycle.
• Uses post-market analytics to monitor software performance and initiates corrective actions.
• Contributes to Software Quality Plans covering design to post-market stages.
• Ensures compliance with global regulations and standards in quality activities.
• Guides teams to meet schedules and mentor on quality practices and QMS.

Skills

Design Quality

Data Analysis

Root Cause Analysis

CAPA

Regulatory

Privacy & Security

Documentation

SDLC

Product Quality

Defect Mgmt

DVP/VVP

QA Metrics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/CA or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Quality Engineer Software

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Participates in the development and maintenance of comprehensive software quality documentation, including Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), ensuring they are accurate, up-to-date, and fully compliant with relevant standards and regulatory requirements throughout the software lifecycle, working under general supervision.
• Executes the assessment of software designs, including reviewing test and performance data, to ensure they meet quality, safety, and regulatory standards, while identifying and addressing quality engineering deficiencies to embed quality within the design.
• Conducts in-depth root cause analysis for software quality issues, employing problem-solving techniques to resolve deficiencies and improve software design processes, ensuring that quality is integral to the development process.
• Guides validation of key software design inputs such as usability, reliability, performance, localizability, safety, privacy, and cost to ensure they meet customer and regulatory requirements, supporting the delivery of high-quality software products.
• Ensures effective oversight of the execution of software quality plans and associated risk management activities throughout the software lifecycle, ensuring that all design-related activities are managed according to defined processes.
• Utilizes post-market analytics and statistics to monitor software performance in the field, providing feedback to manufacturing, suppliers, and design teams, while initiating corrective actions or field actions when required to maintain software quality.
• Participates in the development of comprehensive Software Quality Plans that cover all stages of the software lifecycle, from design through to post-market, supporting the design of these plans and ensuring adherence to quality and regulatory standards.
• Possesses and applies working knowledge of relevant global regulations, requirements, and standards, ensuring that all quality activities and software design processes comply with applicable regulatory requirements, facilitating compliance throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Provides guidance to meet schedules, resolve technical problems, and manage performance requirements, including mentoring on quality engineering practices, regulatory compliance, and QMS processes.
• Reports key software quality metrics, ensuring these metrics are aligned with business objectives and regulatory expectations, while communicating quality-related performance indicators to relevant stakeholders.

Minimum required Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications or equivalent/ Vocational Education.

Minimum required Experience

Minimum 5-7 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering.

Preferred Certification

ISTQB certification

Preferred Skills

• Design Quality Management
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Design for Quality (DFQ)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• CAPA Methodologies
• Regulatory Requirements
• Privacy, Safety and Security Risk Assessment
• Technical Documentation
• Continuous Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Product Quality and Reliability
• Defect Management
• Design Verification Planning
• Design Validation Planning
• Product Test Design

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. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here. At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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