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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

Senior Software Test Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

Transforming Patient Management with Smart Technology!

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work.

Medtronic Coronary & Renal Denervation (OHS) Operating Unit develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of patients across the world.

Treatments We Offer:

Renal Denervation

Symplicity Spyral™ Renal Denervation (RDN) System

Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a Principal Software Test Engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of energy based therapeutic medical devices to treat hypertension. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to lead the newly approved therapy medical device software test team and participate in the design and development of next generation medical devices.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Coronary & Renal Denervation (OHS) Operating Unit. 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 are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

         

         

A Day in the Life:

As a Senior Software Test Engineer within the CRDN Organization, you are accountable for working with your scrum team(s), product owner(s), and leaders to deliver capabilities that meet overall business objectives using Agile frameworks. The team is responsible for developing and supporting firmware, embedded, GUI and application software for stand-alone medical devices.  This role is expected to be a member of the scrum team and contribute towards testing new product capabilities, features, and solutions that support business strategies and initiatives. This role would ensure high quality medical software is delivered to customers that complies to all regulatory approvals.

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Test Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• As a member of the scrum team, own features from manual and automated testing perspective.
• Co-ordinate with Test Lead and other developers in identifying the scope of testing and provide estimates
• Define, plan, organize and coordinate testing activities for owned features and areas and ensure high quality features are delivered following IEC 62304/82304.
• Be able to raise defects in case of failing test scenarios and provide adequate information for debugging and resolving reported issues.
• Automate the qualifying test case in-house developed framework built on Robot Framework and Python
• Work with other team members and contribute towards major milestone delivery like Regression Cycles, Alpha and End-Game testing

The successful candidate will have:

• Previous experience as Software Test Engineer preferably in medical device industry
• Experience with agile software development teams
• Hands-on experience in software testing, automation, regression testing and maintenance for software products.
• Hands-on experience in Python and/or Robot Framework
• Experience in creating software test plans, test cases, test reports and bug reporting
• Experience with Linux operating system and/or QT

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