Senior Software Test Engineer

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

 

Boston Scientific is seeking a highly motivated R&D software engineer to be a part of a team that develops and tests medical device software applications.

 

Be a part of Boston Scientific's Rhythm Management R&D team to develop innovative products that sustain and improve the lives of patients around the world. You will use your technical and

collaboration skills alongside your passion for innovation and continuous improvement to drive growth through efficient and effective development of new products. Develop automated test cases and test frameworks using Python and other tools to test requirements for a Class III medical device software. Develop and support regulated software tools used to support the software verification process.

Responsibilities include analyzing requirements, designing, implementing, debugging, and modifying test cases for a Linux based, commercial safety-critical medical software application.  May interface with Systems Engineers or other user representatives to define or modify application requirements, design and/or implementation.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, debugs, modifies, and reviews manual or automated test protocols that evaluate software applications against software requirements

• Designs, develops, debugs, modifies, and reviews regulated software tools used to support the software verification process.

• Tracks software development and testing effort by creating and maintaining records in the approved tracking management tool.

• Solves engineering problems by analyzing the situation and recommending corrective or alternative actions.

• Analyzes, evaluates, verifies requirements, software, and systems by using software engineering practices.

• Run and mange test regression in formal environment

• Uses version management tool to manage test assets in a concurrent design environment.

• Collaborates with requirements and development teams to coordinate resolution of software errors.

• Coordinate and collaborate with global team members

• Participate in Agile software development process and work towards achieving individual and team goals

• Continuously improves process and work methodologies by interfacing with peers/cross-functional groups and analyzing activities to improve workflow and work processes.

• Could lead project teams of software design and test engineers through the full lifecycle of software development, from concept through commercialization and field support.

• Represent the software function with cross-functional project team members and work cross-functionally to coordinate, develop, and communicate project schedules

• Drives completion of software team deliverables based on regulations and Quality system requirements

• Documents software test development by writing documents, reports, memos, change requests

• Interacts with senior internal and external personnel on significant matters requiring coordination between organizations.

• Provides leadership role on championing functional best practices.

• Collaborates and leads a global R&D team across geographies and time zones

• Mentor junior engineers in software testing activities/methodologies and domain knowledge.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

• 5+ Years of relevant work experience with BS

• 3+ Years of relevant work experience with MS

• Testing experience in a regulated environment (Class III medical devices, defense, aerospace)

• Experience in automated software testing using Python

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Capacity to multi-task several testing activities concurrently

• Effective communicator and writer

• Proven technical leadership

• Experiences with the following:

  • Tools: JIRA, Eclipse, AccuRev

  • Experience in Python and any of the following: wxPython, C#, Java, C++, Perl