Principal Enterprise Software Test Engineer

A Day in the Life

Medtronic CRM Application Development team develops the next generation medical technologies that save lives, improve quality of living for millions of patients across the world. The CRM Software team is one of the most cutting edge teams within Medtronic, working with various software technologies in application software, network software, mobile software, BT/BLE communication software, and interfacing with embedded software for management and control of implantable medical devices. The CRM Software team is looking for a proactive, self-starting, strong software development engineer to build the next generation of CRM software.

 

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

·        Develop and implement comprehensive test strategy, plans and procedures for product development, production and integration.

·        Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers.

·        Read, analyze, understand product requirements, support requirements reviews.

·        Collaborate with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside of the team to ensure products are designed for testability, optimizing for cost-effectiveness.

·        Design and execute tests using automated test tools, as well as Manual test development process, for the verification of software requirements.

·        Work in an evolving, maturing Agile environment as part of a scrum team. Consult with scrum masters, product owners and developers.

·        Assist scrum team with debugging and solving issues discovered during testing.

·        Effectively work with individuals from various engineering disciplines in a variety of locations, supporting test infrastructure set up and test tool development; such as test tools, stubs, Hardware/Firmware simulators and emulators.

·        Establish and maintain traceability from software requirements to verification test design and implementation.

·        Participate in the technical reviews of software requirements and peer verification test development.

·        Take the high level requirements and independently complete test development per the defined processes.

·        Establish and maintain traceability from software requirements to verification test design and implementation.

·        Prepare and maintain detailed test documentation, including test plans, procedures, and reports.

·        Responsible for testing the functionality and performance of software applications or systems software.

·        Develops and executes test plans and scripts designed to detect problems in software applications and systems software for Mobile, Web and iOS development.

·        Ensures software applications or systems software meets technical and functional requirements, enables complex digital workflows, fully meets multi-level requirements, and smoothly functions after introduced changes.

·        Performs workflow analysis, documents test results and recommends quality improvements.

·        Works with development to resolve software defects and diagnose/improve product configuration for current and future modules.

·        Ensures the quality of our customers’ complex enterprise apps and entire software ecosystems.

 

Required Knowledge and Experience

·        Strong knowledge of software design, development, debug and test practices

·        Strong verbal and written communication skills

·        Experience with configuration management tools

·        Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills.

·        Proficiency with two or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Java Script, HTML, VBScript, C#, .NET, Perl, Python, Objective C, Gerkin.

·        Familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall software development methods

·        Familiarity with REST Server and REST interfaces

·        Experience with optimizing code quality through use of continuous integration, static code analysis, security vulnerability testing, and unit test coverage.

·        Familiarity with driving efficiencies and quality improvements in a continuous improvement engineering environment.

·        Familiarity with DevOps principles and the streamlining of the build and deploy process

·        Proficiency in developing within the Windows operating system.

·        Strong development skills in Visual Studio IDE

·        Proficiency in Azure DevOps using Git workflow

Nice to Haves

·        Ability to work on cross-functional project teams comprised of software verification and development engineers, system engineers, human factor engineers and quality engineers

·        Ability to test, analyze, and solve technical problems

·        AI Testing tool experience

·        Strong organizational skills

·        Strong written and verbal communication

·        Design/test experience working with regulated medical devices

·        Experience working within a regulated environment

·        Experience with software version control tools

·        Quality focus, willingness to learn, versatility and adaptability

 

 

 

 

About Medtronic

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We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team.

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