Software Test Engineer I - Digital Health (Acute Care and Monitoring)
MedtronicAbout the role
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Medtronic Acute Care and Monitoring is seeking Software Test Engineer to support Digital Health Home product quality and related remote patient monitoring solutions. This role will support manual testing, exploratory testing, automation development, regression execution, defect validation, release readiness, and QA process improvement in an Agile and regulated product environment.
The engineer will create and maintain test cases, execute manual and automated tests, document defects, support release validation, and collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, DevOps, and other QA team members. The role will also contribute to QA modernization efforts, automation growth, traceability improvements, and shift left testing practices.
The ideal candidate has strong QA fundamentals, hands on test automation experience, clear communication skills, and the ability to work independently in Agile teams while supporting both current release testing and longer-term process improvements.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Execute manual, automation, exploratory, regression, integration, and release validation testing.
- Create and maintain test cases based on requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and defects.
- Build, maintain, and execute automated tests using Katalon Studio or similar tools.
- Identify automation candidates and expand automation coverage for high value regression scenarios.
- Log, track, retest, and close defects in Jira with clear documentation and evidence.
- Support test case traceability from requirements/stories to test cases, executions, and defects.
- Use QA KPI dashboards to communicate execution progress, pass/fail status, automation coverage, defects, blockers, and release risk.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide early QA input during grooming, planning, and story review.
- Support release readiness, production validation, RCA follow-up, and continuous improvement.
- Provide backup QA support for secondary products to improve coverage and business continuity.
Minimum Requirements (Must Have!)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field with relevant software QA experience
- Eligibility for a Security Clearance with the Department of Veterans Affairs
Highly Preferred / Prioritized Qualifications:
- At least 3 years experience with the following:
- Software QA/testing, creating and executing test cases
- Agile/Scrum and Jira
- Test automation tools such as Katalon, Selenium, Cypress, or similar.
- Test management tools such as Polarion, Helix, ALM, Zephyr, or similar.
- GitLab or CI/CD pipeline awareness.
- API testing experience.
- JMeter or performance testing exposure.
- QA metrics, dashboards, and traceability reporting.
- Strong defect documentation and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to communicate QA status, risks, blockers, and release readiness clearly.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):
- Experience in healthcare, medical device, remote patient monitoring, or regulated software environments.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
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
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