At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic - Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity real-time guidance and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission we are developing compact high-performance embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging state-of-the-art computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If youre interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale this could be the place for you.
As a Senior Test Engineer you will work on a core product project team alongside developers designers and product owners to ensure we deliver sustainable high-quality product features. We are looking for an inventive and creative Test Engineer who is well-versed in exploratory testing and automation and who finds value in driving story development through user-centric examples. We recognise that quality must happen at every stage of the product development process and we look to our testers to champion this ethos and help strengthen our quality culture. We care deeply about both the quality of what were making and the quality of life of our team.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Work closely with the cross-functional members of the core product project team to refine the acceptance criteria and ensure the definition of done for the stories features and release levels is known and specified in the requirements
- Design and implement automated tests and frameworks for regression testing and continuous integration
- Collaborate with developers to ensure the verification and validation of acceptance criteria can be reliably checked through the delivery of testability and automated acceptance tests
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement test strategies aligned with regulatory standards for medical devices
- Conduct risk-driven exploratory testing for individual stories and release candidates using charters and appropriate techniques to discover potential problems
- Execute test cases test charters and build test data for various types of testing including functional performance usability security and reliability.
- Identify report and track defects working closely with developers and stakeholders to resolve issues
- Help measure how closely the product meets our quality goals and highlight risks
- Prepare and maintain test reports metrics and documentation for presentation to management and other stakeholders
- Contribute to continuous improvement by developing team guidelines playbooks and knowledge sharing to encourage better practices and testability and increase test coverage while reducing feedback loop times.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in software testing preferably in the medical device industry (or other safety-critical industries)
- Strong programming skills and demonstrable experience in automating acceptance criteria
- Proficiency with Android Espresso testing Kotlin and Gradle
- Proficiency with the iOS XCUITest framework Swift and Fastlane
- Proven experience in native mobile testing
- Experience in non-functional and functional test approaches and techniques.
- Attention to detail proactive attitude and excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical team members
- Demonstrable experience working within an Agile SDLC and applying holistic test practices iteratively throughout the product development cycle
- Familiarity with the use of network mocking and proxying tools
- Familiarity with mobile app security best practices
Certification in software testing such as ISTQB; knowledge of Testing Quadrants and the Holistic Testing Model; experience with DevOps tools for Continuous Integration (CI) testing; and experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be beneficial.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here
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