Job Description

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life Senior Software Systems Engineer in Test for the Cardiac Rhythm Management Systems R&D Engineering function of Medtronic Engineering and Innovation Center R&D facility. The individual will operate in all phases and contribute to all activities of the systems engineering group. The candidate must be a motivated engineer, willing to work in a fast paced, multi-tasking, team environment. The position responsibilities will primarily focus on system integration and system verification for Medtronic products, with future opportunity to expand into system definition and design. The position offers an excellent opportunity for an engineer interested in designing and executing test plans to produce reliable and successful products. Candidates should have demonstrated ability to execute independently after receiving high level scope and constraints. Candidates with exposure to systems engineering practice in industry are requested to apply.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Understand scope of project use scenarios from interpretation of the system model and consultation with project systems engineers
• Read, analyze, understand product requirements, support requirements reviews
• Transform use scenarios into defined test cases; drive test automation strategy for various projects; design test cases
• Create Python scripts, merge code into existing repositories, and run automated test execution
• Troubleshoot automated test failures, identify source of issue, and collaborate with appropriate partners to for resolution; communicate with internal systems, software, & tools experts at various levels
• Support test infrastructure set up and test tool development, such as test tools, stubs, Hardware/Firmware simulators and emulators
• Maintain, improve and design new software tools
• Design and execute project test plans and strategies
• Support manual system integration and system verification test execution
• Establish and maintain traceability from system requirements to systems verification test design and implementation
• Provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.
• Understand and execute best practices of Systems Engineering processes, advocate for high quality engineering.
• Learn and understand software standards for Medical devices, ex. IEC62304

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Experience developing software applications or test automation with Python or similar C language
• Experience working in the Medical Device or other regulated industry
• Experience capturing observations, developing key reports, and providing updates to the broader team
• Strong organization, prioritization, and communication skills
• Experience in developing verification strategy
• Experience performing system-level or verification-level testing
• 8+ years of Software industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Software/Test framework Design & architecture
• Required: Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology, Bio-Medical, Electronics or Electrical Engineering from a premium institute.
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Design/test experience working with regulated medical devices
• Experience working within a regulated environment
• Experience with software version control tools
• Quality focus, willingness to learn, versatility and adaptability
• Agile software development practices
• Interface protocols, API development and open-source technologies (C#, Java, Swagger)
• Wireless communications (WLAN, Bluetooth LE)
• Good understanding of mobile application development
• Good understanding of REST based web services
• Good understanding of cloud-based technologies (PaaS/SaaS/Storage)
• Continuous Integration environments, build pipelines

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 position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission -- to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life -- unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart-- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
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