A Day in the Life In this role as Software Development Engineer in Test (SDE/T) II, you, along with other open SDE/T positions on our team, will work with your manager to best utilize skills, career growth, and interest among all team members and your manager will allocate resources and time among four (4) key internal software services: DevSecOps frameworks and automated pipelines, Kubernetes pipelines and services, source code management systems, and full-stack monitoring services. You will be responsible for testing a diverse set of frameworks, applications, and services. You will use your skills to build and develop our end-to-end automated test harness that tests, deploys, and runs these internally developed systems and frameworks. We have some rudimentary testing frameworks built using opensource products and AWS services, but you will be a part of changing and significantly re-designing the product enhancements to function at the scale are quality we need.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Be a contributing team member helping create a new test-driven culture and team identity
- Design and develop test protocols for assigned features
- Develop, run, and maintain suite(s) of automation tests
- Maintain and grow knowledge of platform configuration management, monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Work under general direction and collaboratively with internal and external partners.
- Continuously keep updated with latest technology trends and channel that learning to Medtronic Product development.
- Help design and develop our end-to-end testing services and improve the testing frameworks around unit, CI, load, soak, reliability, and performance testing capabilities against the full CI/CD, Kubernetes, and migration pipelines
- Build test automation for the platform using a test framework to ensure all pipelines and code are stable, scalable, and can be rapidly regressed
- Contribute to designing and building capabilities, frameworks, and other infrastructure needed to support high quality products
- Participate in technical design sessions and writing appropriate technical test design documents as needed and sufficient for an agile development process
- Test end-to-end CI/CD use cases, understanding our diverse user community configurations, regulatory and change control processes, and security environments
- Work with other test engineers at Medtronic and help lead and evolve the best testing practices across our scientific and client teams
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
Bachelor s degree and 4-7 years of relative experience
Nice to Have
- A degree in computer science or related field
- Proven experience testing in an agile, TDD driven development environment using automated unit, acceptance, CI, and system testing shipping commercial software through at least one development lifecycle
- Proficient using two or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C, C++, Swift/Objective C, Python, Go, C#, or JavaScript
- Experience doing full stack testing including infrastructure cloud services (Storage, VMs, Network, etc. ) as well as application and user experience in a continuous CI/CD pipeline environment
- Experience crafting, building, and running automated test frameworks in cloud environments such as AWS and GCP
- Experience using industry standard test tools, frameworks, and environments
- Experience working in a medical regulated environment considered a plus
- Good to have proficiency in Infrastructure domain and testing of the CI/CD pipelines.
- Good to have experience in YAML.
- Any experience or familiarity with FDA quality and validation processes is a plus.
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
