Senior Test Engineer - Embedded & Automation

Medtronic - Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.

As a Senior Test Engineer within Digital Technologies’ engineering team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and technical leadership. You will be responsible for shaping quality strategy across complex products, influencing design decisions early, and ensuring consistent, compliant delivery. This role suits an engineer who is comfortable owning quality outcomes end to end and influencing across teams and disciplines who is also well versed in automation, exploratory testing and finds value in driving story development through user-centric examples.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Act as a senior quality owner for one or more product areas, accountable for test strategy and execution across the full delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with developers, architects, and product owners to define clear, testable acceptance criteria and ensure quality is built in from design onwards.
• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into executable specifications and automated checks where appropriate.
• Lead acceptance and exploratory testing for complex stories, epics, and release candidates, focusing on risk-based coverage.
• Design, evolve, and govern test automation frameworks such as PyTest, Espresso, Jetpack.
• Compose UI, Postman, and Contract Testing, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Identify systemic non-functional risks (performance, reliability, security, usability) and drive mitigation with the wider engineering team.
• Define and uphold quality standards, test approaches, and best practices across teams.
• Provide clear visibility of quality status, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders beyond the immediate team.
• Influence sprint planning and estimation by highlighting testing complexity, dependencies, and risk.
• Drive work to completion within sprint cycles while maintaining long-term quality objectives.
• Mentor and support other test engineers, acting as a technical reference point for testing and automation.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Significant experience as an Embedded or Platform Test Engineer operating at senior level.
• Strong, practical expertise in Unix/Linux environments (command line).
• Proven experience testing hardware-integrated and native application systems.
• Strong programming skills with demonstrable automation experience (preferably Python, Kotlin, and JavaScript).
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable, maintainable automated test solutions.
• Ability to work independently, make informed quality decisions, and influence without authority.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Applied experience testing medical device hardware and software is a plus.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with tools such as: Bitbucket, GitHub and Jenkins is preferred.
• Experience working in an agile team and knowledge of medical device software standards, IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 QMS, is also valued.

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.

Pay range: United Kingdom: 76,800.00 GBP - 115,200.00 GBP | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.