QA Engineer - Backend Infrastructure (Fixed Term)

About the role

Philips is looking for a highly motivated and technically curious QA Engineer to join its Backend Infrastructure team on a 1-year fixed-term contract in Haifa. You will validate large-scale enterprise backend systems used in healthcare environments, ensuring quality, reliability, performance and operational stability. The role is office-based.

Key responsibilities

• Design and run functional, integration, system, regression and end-to-end manual tests for backend infrastructure components and complex distributed systems.
• Validate installation, upgrade, migration, configuration, backup, recovery and deployment workflows across single-server, clustered, distributed and cloud environments.
• Work with software engineers, DevOps, automation teams and product stakeholders to investigate failures, improve testing strategies, verify fixes and support reliable releases.
• Analyse Windows, IIS, networking, database and service-level issues through logs, diagnostics and system behaviour.
• Take part in reliability improvements, design reviews and post-incident investigations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology, or vocational education in Information Technology or equivalent.
• 2+ years of manual software QA experience, preferably in backend, infrastructure or server-side systems; or at least 4 years of relevant experience with vocational education.
• ISTQB Foundation certification.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication and collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Windows, Windows Server, Windows Services, IIS, web services and troubleshooting system or connectivity issues.
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, ports, firewalls and client-server communication.
• Troubleshooting tools such as logs, Event Viewer, PowerShell and network diagnostic tools.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or a similar language.
• Preferred: Kafka, message brokers, event-driven architecture, databases, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, Wireshark, crash dump analysis, DICOM, HL7, TLS/security protocols or regulated healthcare software.

What we offer

• Base monthly salary range of 17,138 - 28,563 ILS, set according to skills, experience and responsibility.
• Office-based work, at least 3 days per week in person.