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 the state of the art in 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 within Digital Technologies engineering team you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and technical leadership. You will be responsible for shaping quality strategy across complex products influencing design decisions early and ensuring consistent compliant delivery. This role suits an engineer who is comfortable owning quality outcomes end to
end and influencing across teams and disciplines who is also well versed in automation exploratory testing and finds value in driving story development through user-centric examples.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Act as a senior quality owner for one or more product areas accountable for test strategy and execution across the full delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with developers architects and product owners to define clear testable acceptance criteria and ensure quality is built in from design onwards.
• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into executable specifications and automated checks where appropriate.
• Lead acceptance and exploratory testing for complex stories epics and release candidates focusing on risk-based coverage.
• Design evolve and govern test automation frameworks such as PyTest Espresso Jetpack.
• Compose UI Postman and Contract Testing ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Identify systemic non-functional risks (performance reliability security usability) and drive mitigation with the wider engineering team.
• Define and uphold quality standards test approaches and best practices across teams.
• Provide clear visibility of quality status risks and trade-offs to stakeholders beyond the immediate team.
• Influence sprint planning and estimation by highlighting testing complexity dependencies and risk.
• Drive work to completion within sprint cycles while maintaining long-term quality objectives.
• Mentor and support other test engineers acting as a technical reference point for testing and automation.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Significant experience as an Embedded or Platform Test Engineer operating at senior level.
• Strong practical expertise in Unix/Linux environments (command line).
• Proven experience testing hardware-integrated and native application systems.
• Strong programming skills with demonstrable automation experience (preferably Python Kotlin and JavaScript).
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable maintainable automated test solutions.
• Ability to work independently make informed quality decisions and influence without authority.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong attention to detail.

Applied experience testing medical device hardware and software is a plus.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with tools such as: Bitbucket GitHub and Jenkins is preferred. Experience working in an agile team and knowledge of medical device software standards IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 QMS is also valued.

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