Principal Test Engineer

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Medtronic plc Full time
Senior Test Engineer - Medical Devices

At Medtronic, we are dedicated to fostering a career filled with exploration and innovation, while advocating for healthcare access and equity worldwide. In this role, you will lead with intention, dismantling barriers to innovation in a more interconnected and compassionate environment.

Your Role

As part of Medtronic - Digital Technologies, you will contribute to the development of groundbreaking products that enhance connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision-making support in surgical settings. Our focus is on creating compact, high-performance embedded systems that facilitate edge computing and connectivity. Collaborating with various teams across Medtronic, we aim to establish a connected ecosystem that utilizes cutting-edge computer vision technology to provide a comprehensive view of surgical procedures. If you are eager to apply advanced technology to elevate surgical care standards globally, this position is designed for you.

In your capacity as a Senior Test Engineer, you will be pivotal in ensuring the reliability and efficacy of our medical devices and software solutions. If you are enthusiastic about harnessing technology to improve patient care on a global scale, we welcome you to join our mission.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to devise and execute testing strategies that comply with regulatory standards for medical devices.
  2. Conduct test cases, scripts, and data for various testing types, including functional, performance, usability, security, and reliability assessments.
  3. Engage closely with Product Owners and Developers to establish acceptance criteria and definitions of completion for both user stories and releases.
  4. Identify, document, and monitor defects, working in tandem with developers and stakeholders to resolve issues effectively.
  5. Design and implement automated testing procedures and frameworks for regression testing and continuous integration processes.
  6. Prepare and maintain comprehensive test reports, metrics, and documentation for review by management and stakeholders.
  7. Stay informed about the latest medical device testing standards, tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Essential Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer, Electrical, or Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
  2. A minimum of 5 years of experience in software testing, ideally within the medical device sector or other safety-critical industries.
  3. Familiarity with medical device regulations and standards such as ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and 21 CFR 820.
  4. Proficiency in testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, and TestArchitect.
  5. Certification in software testing, such as ISTQB.
  6. Willingness to work on-site a minimum of three days per week.

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Experience with deployed hardware systems and remote device management.
  2. Familiarity with virtualization technologies.
  3. Knowledge of video encoding and codecs, along with related tools.
  4. Experience with cloud services, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Physical Job Requirements:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and skills required.

Compensation and Benefits

Medtronic provides a competitive salary and a flexible benefits package.
We are committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions and sharing in the success they help create. Our benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans are designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

About Medtronic

We are leaders in global healthcare technology, tackling the most pressing health challenges facing humanity by seeking out and implementing innovative solutions. Our mission—to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—unites a global team of over 90,000 dedicated individuals.

We are engineers at heart, transforming ambitious ideas into real solutions for real people. From research and development to production and collaboration, each of us experiments, creates, builds, improves, and solves. We possess the talent, diverse perspectives, and courage to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and commitment to diversity on our website.



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