Senior Firmware Test Engineer
Careers that Change Lives
Summary of Position:
- The Firmware Engineer will be a member of the Engineering R&D team working on the development and support of medical devices. Firmware Engineers work closely with other members of the engineering staff to provide technical solutions to engineering problems.
- The Firmware Engineer will participate in the creation of design documentation, software code, test plans, and other project artifacts.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Participates, as a member of software project or sub-project team(s), in the Testing of device firmware
- 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.
- Define and set up the test and validation environment, Reviews test automation frameworks, tools, techniques, and methodologies.
- Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner.
- Participates in other activities, such as performing hazard and risk analysis, reviews of designs and tests, etc.
- Demonstrates good coding practices.
Principal Working Relationships:
- Reports to the Engineering Manager
- Accountable to a Project Manager(s) for project-related responsibilities
- Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, particularly hardware engineers, to develop project requirements and other project artifacts such as project schedules. Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, subcontractors and other users.
- Experience with C, Python programming required.
- Candidate should be knowledgeable and have experience in software engineering processes and software life-cycle in general.
- Experience in embedded, real-time applications and firmware components required.
Nice to have:
- Knowledge in CodeBeamer, Jira, JSON, JavaScript
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Familiar with hardware diagnostics (using multimeter, oscilloscope)
- 9+ years of embedded software engineering experience.
- Required: - B.E or B.Tech in Computer Sciences, Electronics or Electrical Engineer.
- Preferred: - M.E or M.Tech in Computer Sciences, Electronics or Electrical Engineer.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills.
Short-Term Success Metrics (6-12 Months)
- Demonstrate strong Testing skills.
- Demonstrate understanding of design and design patterns
- Demonstrate strong knowledge on tools and technologies
- Establish trusting relationship with the team and other stakeholders
- Demonstrate problem solving capabilities.
- Deliver on project commitments.
- Learn and demonstrate Product and Domain understanding
- Demonstrate solid understand of Software Development Lifecycle
- Consistently deliver on Project commitment
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
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
