A Day in the Life As a Test Engineer working at Medtronic, you will be a contributor to the Surgical Instrumentation team. The Test Engineer is responsible for planning, developing, and executing test strategies for embedded systems to ensure product quality, reliability, and compliance with industry standards. This role involves designing automated and manual test cases, setting up and maintaining test fixtures, and identifying root causes of defects through systematic troubleshooting. The engineer collaborates closely with design, firmware, and hardware teams to validate functionality, performance, and safety requirements throughout the product development lifecycle.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
The Software Test Engineer II is responsible for providing development in the software development of cutting-edge products used in the medical field. Specific tasks include:
- Tests 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.
- Ensures software applications or systems software meets technical and functional requirements.
- 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 models.
- Reviews test automation frameworks, tools, techniques, and methodologies.
- Promote continuous improvement through the use of tools and practices such as Agile, Scrum
- Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers.
- Adheres to defined Software Test Engineering policies, standards and procedures.
- Formulate, deliver and/or manage assigned projects to achieve desired results.
- Deliver initiatives related to new technologies or therapies from design to implementation using specialized knowledge and skills. Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems
- Troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining, and supporting existing software products.
- Supporting labs and surgical evaluations of products.
- Reports to the Software Manager for functional leadership.
Required knowledge and experience:
- Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science/ ECE/EE or equivalent
- 4 to 8 years experience in Embedded Software verification & Validation.
- Experience in test automation preferably using Python.
- Knowledge in C, C++ software & OS/RTOS in an Embedded development environment.
- Experience on both white box and black box testing and strong debugging skills.
- Experience in hardware/software interfacing and design issues.
- Participate in System design, coordination with teams and internal product management.
- Experience/Knowledge of standard embedded communication protocols ( SPI, I2C, UART, etc. )
- Awareness of Medical Device standards IEC 60601-1, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and applicable FDA standards
- Excellent debugging skills and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience working in a structured software development environment following a well-defined software development process like Agile .
- Must be a great individual contributor and team player.
- Must have qualities including being positive, high standards, resilient, open, and creative.
- Appreciation of discipline and work required to develop software in a regulated industry
- Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
- Good interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills.
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
