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

At Medtronic, we contribute to human welfare and wellbeing through biomedical engineering. Everyday we’re involved in meaningful work to change people’s lives and health for the better. Now is your chance to join a talented team of engineers focused on providing software development pipelines and frameworks, Kubernetes and container services and technologies, as well as global source code and binary code services to our research scientist, medical device manufacturing, regulatory, IT, marketing, and sales teams across our company.
In this role as lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDE/T) III, you drive the testing of Medtronic’s core internal software services, from its DevSecOps frameworks and automated pipelines to its FDA regulated and full-stack monitoring services. You and your team will be responsible for testing a diverse set of frameworks, applications, and services. Your team will build and develop our end-to-end automated test harness that tests, deploys, and runs our internally developed Kubernetes and DevSecOps framework. We have some rudimentary testing frameworks built using opensource products and AWS services, but these need significant design and product enhancements to function at the scale are quality we need. And finally, you and your team will provide mentorship to our client software development engineers and scientists who use our frameworks.

• Team Lead for a team of software development engineers in test (SDE/T) providing mentorship and leadership as together you work to create a new test-driven culture and team identity 

• Lead our testing practices and improve the testing frameworks around unit, CI, load, and performance testing capabilities against the full CI/CD, Kubernetes, and migration pipelines

• Develop new automated test services to ensure our full-stack monitoring service works with both custom and COTS applications

• Test end-to-end CI/CD use cases, understanding our diverse user community configurations, use cases, and environments 

• Work with other test engineers at Medtronic and help lead and evolve the best testing practices across our scientific and client teams

• Be an integral member of the core DevSecOps/Shared Services development team and help develop, test, deploy, and operate our services 24x7x365 globally

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of related experience

Nice to Have

• A degree in computer science or related field
• Proven experience testing in an agile, TDD driven development environment using automated unit, acceptance, CI, and system testing shipping commercial software through at least one development lifecycle
• 1-2 years leading and running software test teams. Successful experience recruiting and hiring top talent. 
• Proficient using two or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C, C++, Swift/Objective C, Python, Go, C#, or JavaScript
• Experience doing full stack testing including infrastructure cloud services (Storage, VMs, Network, etc.) as well as application and user experience in a continuous CI/CD pipeline environment
• Experience using and testing containerized/Kubernetes clusters and associated pipelines, management, and operations
• Experience crafting, building, and running automated test frameworks in distributed cloud environments such as AWS and GCP 
• Experience testing in an automated and programmatic DevSecOps environment
• Experience using industry standard test tools, frameworks, and environments
• Familiarity testing serverless computing and microservice functions a plus
• Experience working in a medical regulated environment considered a plus

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 or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

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.
 

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 90,000+ 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