Principal Test Ops Engineer

at  Medtronic

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
Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. 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 Principal TestOps Engineer within the Surgical R&D Digital Services Centre of Excellence, you will work alongside developers and test engineers to ensure we have the automation tools and infrastructure to deliver consistent quality products to our customers. Join our dynamic team, based in the vibrant hub of Old Street, London. This role requires you to be in the office at least two days per week.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Ensure developers and test engineers have the tools and infrastructure to develop and implement automated tests efficiently during feature development
• Collaborate with developers and test engineers to highlight gaps in test coverage and develop guidelines that encourage better testing, increase test coverage in depth and breadth, and improve the product engineering experience
• Research and implement new technologies and techniques to help support various parts of the testing process, including both functional and non-functional
• Identify, design, and deliver bespoke tooling to drive efficiency and engineering productivity
• Ensure the tooling and infrastructure have monitoring built-in so that the team can measure the results against our quality goals and highlight risks and impediments
• Contribute to continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing across the entire team
• Clearly communicate and showcase new tooling features and changes
• Keep track of tasks being worked on and make them visible to people outside their team

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working as TestOps, Software Engineer in Test, or Automation Tester
• 5+ years of experience working in an agile team
• Excellent knowledge and applied expertise in test and quality practices
• Experience in test practices for native mobile and/or full-stack web applications
• Expert knowledge of programming and automation tooling
• Experience with TestOps tools for Continuous Integration (CI/CD) testing
• Experience with building automation frameworks and tooling from scratch
• Strong working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments (command line)

Coached and mentored team members, including testers and developers, with experience in Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodologies. Demonstrated knowledge and application of context-driven testing and agile testing approaches. Familiar with medical device software standards.
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
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• Ensure developers and test engineers have the tools and infrastructure to develop and implement automated tests efficiently during feature development
• Collaborate with developers and test engineers to highlight gaps in test coverage and develop guidelines that encourage better testing, increase test coverage in depth and breadth, and improve the product engineering experience
• Research and implement new technologies and techniques to help support various parts of the testing process, including both functional and non-functional
• Identify, design, and deliver bespoke tooling to drive efficiency and engineering productivity
• Ensure the tooling and infrastructure have monitoring built-in so that the team can measure the results against our quality goals and highlight risks and impediments
• Contribute to continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing across the entire team
• Clearly communicate and showcase new tooling features and changes
• Keep track of tasks being worked on and make them visible to people outside their tea