Software Test Engineer II
Medtronic
Summary
Medtronic is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Software Test Engineer II to join our Affera Mapping and Ablation System team. This role is essential in supporting the testing and quality assurance processes to ensure the reliability and performance of our advanced medical devices.
Job description
The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.
This is an onsite position that can either sit in either Mounds View, MN or Newton, MA. The ideal candidate has experience designing, developing and testing real-time high-performance visualization applications. They will take ownership of key features while working collaboratively with other engineering teams, and are passionate about working on a product that will have a positive impact on the lives of millions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Test the functionality and performance of the systems software
- Develop and execute manual test plans and scripts designed to detect problems
- Maintain broad understanding of current testing software technologies
- Ensure systems software meets technical and functional requirements
- Perform workflow analysis, document test results and recommend quality improvements
- Work with engineers to resolve software defects and diagnose/improve product configuration for current and future models
- Reviews test automation frameworks, tools, techniques, and methodologies
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 0 years of relevant experience
- Understanding of creating test protocols for verifying software requirements
- Ability to work with QA to ensure testing meets Quality and Regulatory needs
- Good documentation practices
- Experience using a tool or repository for managing test cases (Polarion, TFS, TestRail, JAMA, Matrix, etc)
- Ability to manage, track and upgrade multiple hardware and software configurations
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Medical Product verification, IEC-62304 and FDA guidance in a technical discipline, preferably software related
- Minimum of 2 years of software verification experience
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python, C++/C# or similar languages
- Experience debugging hardware with tools such as oscilloscope and function generators
- Experience writing, executing, and maintaining test automation scripts in Python or a comparable language
- Experience should include automating functional, regression, and system-level test cases; working with test frameworks and reusable test libraries; analyzing logs and test results; debugging failures; and integrating automated tests into the broader verification workflow
- Experience writing technical reports
- Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial drive
- Experience with software version control systems, such as BitBucket/Git
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 0 years of relevant experience
- Understanding of creating test protocols for verifying software requirements
- Ability to work with QA to ensure testing meets Quality and Regulatory needs
- Good documentation practices
- Experience using a tool or repository for managing test cases (Polarion, TFS, TestRail, JAMA, Matrix, etc)
- Ability to manage, track and upgrade multiple hardware and software configurations
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive Plans
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.