Test Engineer

At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You will lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life: 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.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with developers to ensure acceptance criteria are met for each user story and where possible turn the criteria into executable specifications.
• Conduct acceptance testing using appropriate techniques for individual stories and release candidates and updating test artifacts for traceability.
• Conduct exploratory testing for individual stories and release candidates using charters and appropriate techniques to discover potential problems.
• Contribute to guidelines that encourage better testing and testability, increase test coverage, and improve the release process.
• Design, contribute, and implement test automation frameworks such as: Py-Test, Espresso, Jet Pack Compose UI Framework, Postman, and Contract Testing.
• Identify non-functional issues and work with the team to improve them.
• Work closely with Product Owner and Developers to define acceptance criteria and definition of done for stories, features, and releases.
• Help measure how closely the product meets our quality goals and highlight risks and impediments.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing across the entire team.
• Communicate and collaborate with other members of the test team relating to risks that could impact the wider team.
• Drive stories to completion regularly in sprint.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum 1 to 2 years of professional experience.
• Hands-on experience testing native applications and hardware.
• Strong programming skills and demonstrable experience in automation (preferably Python, Kotlin, and JavaScript).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to detail.
• Experience working in an agile team.
• Must be willing to commute to London 2 to 3 days per week.

Preferred skills:

• Experience working with test management systems and software as well as hands-on involvement in video testing.
• An understanding of medical device software standards such as IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 QMS is preferred along with practical experience testing both medical device hardware and software.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like Bitbucket, GitHub, and Jenkins is also highly 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 is at the core of our values. We recognise 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. 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.