Enterprise SW Test Engineer ID- 9739

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

The Software Test Engineer will focus on supporting medical device software testing. The position is a hands-on test development & individual contributor role with a dynamic set of responsibilities in a complex software system including test design & development, design of test automation framework, test scripts development and test execution.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

  • Contribute to the creation and refinement of functional requirements during design, development, and verification phases.
  • Collaborate with the usability team to document requirements, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and testing flow diagrams.
  • Plan, organize, and execute user acceptance testing to ensure all use case scenarios are addressed, ensuring that the product meets end-user expectations.
  • Perform system verification by integrating software and hardware subsystems in various environments, including operating rooms (OR) and office settings.
  • Develop and execute Verification & Validation (V&V) test plans, protocols, reports, and procedures, ensuring alignment with design inputs (DIs) and regulatory standards.
  • Ensure adherence to internal quality processes and produce high-quality verification and validation documentation in compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate on the development and improvement of test automation tools and frameworks to enhance the efficiency of testing processes.
  • Develop and document software for product test fixtures, ensuring thorough testing and validation of hardware and software integration.
  • Identify, report, and track defects found during manual and automated testing, and participate in root cause analysis and resolution.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, test coverage, and proper handling of edge cases.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including electronics, mechanical, and electrical groups, to design and validate test fixtures required for system verification.
  • Generate and release test plans, specifications, and reports for fixture validation using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.
  • Work within established development methodologies, including Agile, to deliver functional prototypes and participate in sprint reviews.


Required Knowledge And Experience

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 95,000+ 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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