Senior Manager – Software Test Engineering
Careers that Change Lives
At Medtronic Diabetes, our Application and Cloud Team connects a planet’s worth of health data to deliver patient and hospital solutions that make a real difference in how people live their lives every day. Our team’s applications and systems are truly “the core” that powers our business’ clinical studies, data analytics and customer-facing therapy solutions. We are advancing our digital solutions and data management systems to be highly cloud centric with real-time connected web and mobile applications.
We are seeking a high-caliber senior engineering manager to lead our Software Test and Test Automation strategy to ensure exceptional customer experience of our “always-on” digital health platform. You will provide leadership to architect, design and develop test strategies, frameworks and tools. In this role, you will be responsible for all deliverables associated with verifying our connected solutions that integrate real-time health data and deliver remote monitoring and therapy analytics to patients and health care providers globally. Your team will be responsible for manual and automated testing throughout the Development, Integration, User-Acceptance, and formal Verification phases.
We look for leaders who have a clear vision of where we are going and how to get there, bold inclusive thinkers who create new ideas and bring our best solutions forward to benefit our patients, business partners, and customers.
A Day in the Life
- Deliver and operate enterprise grade applications and tools for the Application and Cloud group
- Lead, coach, manage and grow engineers to their potential. Recognize the individual strengths of each member and how they can be leveraged together to create a team that is even more capable together.
- Directly interface with architects, software managers and customer representatives to incorporate their needs into our verification and operations strategies.
- Drive Site Reliability best practices including tool strategy, monitoring and diagnostic functionality, escalation processes and incident management.
- Support pre-commercial infrastructure operations for multiple engineering programs with varied needs.
- Interface with the applications support groups to correlate call-center escalations with infrastructure reliability and drive the “customer’s view” back into our engineering processes.
- Perform root-cause analysis, present findings and identify areas for systemic improvement.
- Manage work priorities for engineering team members and vendor staff; report on project status regularly using clear and concise methods that are appropriate for senior level audiences.
- Provide feedback to the Infrastructure and development teams to influence architecture, component design, tools and automation.
- Apply critical thinking skills to address complex needs in a sometimes-ambiguous environment; see the big picture and implement incrementally to make tangible differences according to strategic goals.
- Collaborate and build strong relationships with partner R&D organizations including Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory and Field Operations
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- Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company’s design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
- Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
- Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
- Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
- Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors’ degree in Engineering or Sciences with 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience and 5+ years of managerial experience, or master’s degree in Engineering or Sciences with 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience testing and delivering commercial web applications and cloud services
- Excellent written, verbal communication and Inter-personal skills with the ability to communicate complex technical information to varied and often non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience with software test frameworks
- Experience with systems build on native cloud services such as AWS or Azure
Experience integrating with enterprise T services such as Single-Sign, LDAP etc
About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations – but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
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