Senior Technical Architect
India
Job Description
Senior Technical Architect
Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Pod 9 — PDT — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 9 — PDT
Role Title    Lead — Platform Stability & Reliability Test (PDT)
Experience    8 – 10 years
Primary Location    Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter
Work Model    Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.
Role Summary
Own platform design and test sustenance — test-plan development, platform-level validation, and regression execution across sustenance releases.
Key Responsibilities
•    Own stability and reliability testing strategy for the platform, including MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) measurement and reporting.
•    Operate and scale the SoC device farm running diverse use-case combinations at high frequency (multiple executions per hour) to surface stability issues.
•    Design and inject crash scenarios (stress, fault-injection, resource-exhaustion) to proactively uncover platform stability defects.
•    Triage stability failures back to the owning pod with full repro steps and device-farm logs.
•    Own test infrastructure and automation for the sustenance program, and mentor the pod's Senior Engineer.
•    Report MTBF, stability and quality metrics to the Program Lead.
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 years embedded stability/reliability test engineering, including MTBF methodology and SoC device-farm operation.
•    SoC device-farm design and operation for high-frequency, multi-use-case execution.
•    Crash-scenario / fault-injection test design.
•    MTBF measurement and statistical reliability analysis.
•    Scripting (Python) for stability test automation.
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Hardware-in-the-loop lab automation (LAVA/Labgrid) for device-farm orchestration.
•    CI/CD pipeline ownership for embedded targets.
•    Certification or compliance test campaign experience.

Key Responsibilities

Pod 9 — PDT — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 9 — PDT
Role Title    Lead — Platform Stability & Reliability Test (PDT)
Experience    8 – 10 years
Primary Location    Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter
Work Model    Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.
Role Summary
Own platform design and test sustenance — test-plan development, platform-level validation, and regression execution across sustenance releases.
Key Responsibilities
•    Own stability and reliability testing strategy for the platform, including MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) measurement and reporting.
•    Operate and scale the SoC device farm running diverse use-case combinations at high frequency (multiple executions per hour) to surface stability issues.
•    Design and inject crash scenarios (stress, fault-injection, resource-exhaustion) to proactively uncover platform stability defects.
•    Triage stability failures back to the owning pod with full repro steps and device-farm logs.
•    Own test infrastructure and automation for the sustenance program, and mentor the pod's Senior Engineer.
•    Report MTBF, stability and quality metrics to the Program Lead.
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 years embedded stability/reliability test engineering, including MTBF methodology and SoC device-farm operation.
•    SoC device-farm design and operation for high-frequency, multi-use-case execution.
•    Crash-scenario / fault-injection test design.
•    MTBF measurement and statistical reliability analysis.
•    Scripting (Python) for stability test automation.
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Hardware-in-the-loop lab automation (LAVA/Labgrid) for device-farm orchestration.
•    CI/CD pipeline ownership for embedded targets.
•    Certification or compliance test campaign experience.

Skill Requirements

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HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.