Software Test Engineer II

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

As a Test Engineer working at Medtronic, you will be a contributor to the Surgical Instrumentation team. The Test Engineer is responsible for planning, developing, and executing test strategies for embedded systems to ensure product quality, reliability, and compliance with industry standards. This role involves designing automated and manual test cases, setting up and maintaining test fixtures, and identifying root causes of defects through systematic troubleshooting. The engineer collaborates closely with design, firmware, and hardware teams to validate functionality, performance, and safety requirements throughout the product development lifecycle.

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

The Software Test Engineer II is responsible for providing development in the software development of cutting-edge products used in the medical field. Specific tasks include :

• Tests the functionality and performance of software applications or systems software.
• Develops and executes test plans and scripts designed to detect problems in software applications and systems software.
• Ensures software applications or systems software meets technical and functional requirements.
• Performs workflow analysis, documents test results and recommends quality improvements.
• Works with development to resolve software defects and diagnose / improve product configuration for current and future models.
• Reviews test automation frameworks, tools, techniques, and methodologies.
• Promote continuous improvement through the use of tools and practices such as Agile, Scrum
• Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers.
• Adheres to defined Software Test Engineering policies, standards and procedures.
• Formulate, deliver and / or manage assigned projects to achieve desired results.
• Deliver initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation using specialized knowledge and skills. Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems
• Troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining, and supporting existing software products.
• Supporting labs and surgical evaluations of products.
• Reports to the Software Manager for functional leadership.

Required knowledge and experience :

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here

Skills Required

RTOS in an Embedded development environment, White box and black box testing, Debugging skills, Hardware software interfacing, Embedded Software verification Validation