Principal IT Project Lead

A Day in the Life

The Principal IT Project Lead will lead software quality assurance and validation activities across multiple applications and projects. This role develops testing strategies, coordinates manual and automated testing, manages defects, supports audits, and partners with technical and business stakeholders to deliver compliant, production-ready solutions. Additional responsibilities will include leading planned SAP releases and acting as Rev-Trac tool administrator. The position is based at the Cheshire Lane location in Plymouth, Minnesota and requires onsite work. No travel is required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead software quality assurance and validation activities across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring adherence to project schedules and deployment timelines.
• Develop, document, and execute test approaches, plans, cases, scripts, and summary reports for software applications, systems, and analytical solutions.
• Coordinate manual and automated testing to validate functional requirements, system integrations, application performance, and technical specifications.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes, document defects and configuration issues, and drive remediation with technical teams and vendors.
• Ensure testing and validation activities comply with established quality standards, change-control processes, data privacy, product security, and application security requirements.
• Conduct internal audits and support regulatory and compliance activities related to software development, application integration, and information system performance.
• Communicate testing status, risks, defects, and results to project stakeholders, process owners, and technical and functional teams.
• Identify and implement improvements to testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and quality assurance processes.
• Manage Release Management governance framework including Technical Review Board, SAP Review Board and Change Control Board, and participate in SAP Change Advisory Board review meetings.
• Act as a point of contact for Release Management, including leading and developing personnel and working with IT partners.
• Create and maintain project plans utilizing Microsoft Project; conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews in conjunction with Project Management.
• Prepare key release management metrics and develop cutover and roll back plans.
• Help create access requests for SAP IT users in GRC for acquiring needed Rev-Trac roles.
• Manage Rev-Trac RCRs for Quarterly, Monthly and weekly releases.
• Run Rev-Trac reports on Workbench Transports and Customizing/Config Transports.
• Review OOPS and Rev-Track Locking reports before cutover to avoid object locking and other potential conflicts.
• Assist with managing changes to the technical release path through Rev-Trac.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience OR advanced degree and 5+ years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating and executing manual and automated test cases and managing defects using OpenText Application Lifecycle Management, formerly Micro Focus ALM.
• Experience with SAP Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, or Financial Accounting modules and SAP regression tools such as LiveCompare, Rev-Trac, or SAP Solution Manager 7.2.
• Experience developing validation and compliance documentation and testing for Sarbanes-Oxley, Good Practice requirements, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations, including 21 CFR Part 11 and 21 CFR Part 820.
• Experience with Polarion ALM, Tricentis testing solutions, analytics platforms, and Agile project management methodologies.
• Experience supporting audits of medical device software or systems within Medtronic or another regulated medical technology organization.
• 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.