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Medtronic Senior Software Test Engineer in London, United Kingdom
Careers that Change Lives
Medtronic- Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new product that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. 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 Software Engineer within Medtronic - Digital Technologies’s engineering team, you will be working alongside developers, designers and product owners to ensure that we deliver consistent quality products to our customers. We are looking for a driven Senior Software Engineer who is well versed in automation, exploratory testing and finds value in driving story development through user-centric examples. We recognise that quality has to happen at every stage of the development process and look to our testers to champion this ethos and help strengthen our quality culture. We care about both the quality of what we’re making and the quality of life of our team.
A Day in the Life
Here's what you'll do (not all of it, just the important stuff!):
• Work closely with Product Owner and Developers to define acceptance criteria and definition of done for both stories and releases.
• Conduct exploratory testing for individual stories and release candidates using charters and appropriate techniques to discover potential problems.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure acceptance criteria are met and where possible, automated.
• Develop guidelines that encourage better testing and testability, increase test coverage and improve the release process.
• Design and implement automated tests and frameworks for regression testing and continuous integration.
• Prepare and maintain test reports, metrics, and documentation for presentation to management and other stakeholders.
• Help measure how closely the product meets our quality goals and highlight risks.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing across the entire team.
Must Haves
• Comfortable using Charles Proxy and Postman.
• Back-end testing experience
• Excellent database querying skills
• An understanding and appreciation of security issues
• Experience with Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Good programming skills and demonstrable experience automating scripts and acceptance criteria
• Attention to detail, proactive and excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical team members
• Willing to learn new processes and technology and share their knowledge to the benefit of the team.
Nice to Haves
• Experience with ATDD or BDD
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) testing
• A desire to keep learning and developing your skills
• Certification in software testing, such as ISTQB
We Offer
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package to all our employees:
• Flexible working environment
• Annual Incentive Plan % depending on company results
• Pension scheme and group discount on healthcare insurance
• Training possibilities via Cornerstone/Skills Lab
• Employee Assistance Program and Recognize! (our global recognition program)
Our Commitment
Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communities if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
About Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are 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 90,000+ passionate people. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world.
In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary .
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