Medtronic
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Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
As a Senior Enterprise Software Test Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and regulatory compliance of software solutions supporting advanced healthcare technologies. Based in Hyderabad, you will partner with software engineering, quality, systems, and product teams to verify complex software-intensive products through robust test automation and validation strategies. This role combines deep expertise in Windows desktop application testing, automation framework architecture, and quality engineering practices to support the delivery of safe and reliable medical technology solutions. You will work across distributed systems, contribute to software verification and validation activities, and help drive earlier defect detection, increased automation coverage, and improved release confidence. The position offers the opportunity to influence test strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with global cross-functional teams developing software for healthcare and surgical technology platforms.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Lead the design, implementation, and execution of automated testing strategies for complex Windows desktop applications and software-intensive products.
- Architect, maintain, and enhance scalable test automation frameworks to improve product quality, test coverage, and release efficiency.
- Drive software verification and validation activities throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Develop and execute functional, integration, system, API, regression, and end-to-end automated test suites.
- Collaborate with software, systems, quality, and product teams to define test requirements, acceptance criteria, and validation strategies.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates to improve development velocity and release confidence.
- Investigate defects, perform root cause analysis, and support corrective actions through closure.
- Ensure compliance with applicable software quality, verification, validation, and regulatory requirements.
- Mentor engineers on test automation best practices and quality engineering methodologies.
- Partner with global cross-functional teams to support the delivery of safe, reliable, and compliant healthcare technology solutions.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- 8-10 years of software test automation experience.
- Experience testing complex software-intensive products.
- Experience designing and implementing automation frameworks.
- Experience testing Windows desktop applications.
- Experience working in Agile or Scrum product development environments.
- Experience working with distributed and integrated software systems.
- Proficiency in C# or Python programming.
- Experience with one or more test automation frameworks including Ranorex, PyTest, Robot Framework, or Playwright.
- Experience with UI automation frameworks for desktop application testing.
- Experience with API testing using REST Assured, SOAP UI, Swagger/OpenAPI, or equivalent tools.
- Experience using GitHub for source control and collaborative development.
- Experience working within Windows and Linux operating environments.
Preferred:
- Experience with medical device, robotic, or healthcare technology products.
- Experience with robotic-assisted surgery systems, surgical navigation platforms, image-guided therapy systems, medical imaging applications, embedded medical devices, real-time systems, or safety-critical products.
- Knowledge of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, FDA Design Controls, and Software Verification & Validation practices.
- Exposure to cybersecurity testing for medical devices.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, robotic arm validation, computer vision testing, or simulation-based testing.
- Experience with DICOM-based imaging workflows and network communication protocols.
- Experience working with digital twin environments.
- Exposure to AI/ML-enabled medical applications, test data management, and automated defect analytics.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical quality decisions across cross-functional teams.
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.
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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).
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