Senior Principal Software Test Engineer - Enterprise Validation

Senior Principal Enterprise Software Test Engineer

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

Within the Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) R&D Engineering organization, the Senior Principal Enterprise Software Test Engineer provides technical leadership for the verification and validation of ACM products and new platform initiatives. This role is accountable for defining and governing scalable, secure, and compliant test strategies and validation frameworks, ensuring alignment with product requirements, long-term technology vision, and medical industry standards across Desktop, Web, and Mobile ecosystems.
The role partners closely with engineering leadership, systems engineering, product management, and cross-functional teams to drive V&V planning, test design reviews, and quality assurance best practices. As a recognized technical authority, the Senior Principal Test Engineer mentors senior engineers and technical leads, drives innovation in test automation and validation methodologies, reduces complexity and risk through systematic verification, and ensures that quality, testability, and regulatory compliance are validated by design within an agile, fast-changing development environment.

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

• Lead the test architecture and quality strategy for Acute Care & Monitoring desktop, web, and mobile platforms.

• Own the enterprise V&V architecture, aligned with system design, regulatory needs, and product roadmaps.

• Architect scalable automation frameworks (data‑driven, API‑level, model‑based, CI/CD‑integrated).

• Define testability architecture (Instrumentation, hooks, simulators, diagnostics).

• Serve as the V&V authority for architecture, risk, compliance, and system‑level validation.

• Set risk‑based validation strategies across functional, integration, performance, cybersecurity, reliability, and interoperability areas.

• Ensure end‑to‑end architectural alignment with development, systems, cybersecurity, and product teams.

• Represent V&V in executive, technical, and regulatory reviews.

• Define test lab architecture, including environments, virtualization, and distributed execution.

• Approve test architecture artifacts, automation designs, and validation strategies.

• Drive innovation in AI‑assisted testing, predictive analytics, and advanced validation tech.

• Mentor senior engineers on architecture, frameworks, and testing best practices.

• Lead the toolchain strategy for automation, API testing, simulation, and validation.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 18+ years in V&V with strong focus on test architecture and enterprise validation.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering or Computer Science (Master’s/PhD preferred).

• Proven test architect for multiple end‑to‑end product releases.

• Expertise in enterprise test architecture, automation patterns, distributed frameworks, and API‑centric testing.

• Deep experience with IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485.

• Hands‑on with large‑scale automation frameworks (Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Test Complete).

• Proficient in any one of the languages C#, Java, Python, or C++.

• Strong understanding of system‑level validation (performance, reliability, scalability, cybersecurity, interoperability).

• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience designing scalable lab infrastructure (simulators, device farms).

• Strong communication and influence skills for technical and regulatory audiences.

• Leadership experience across global, multidisciplinary teams.
  Nice To Have:

• Experience with cloud‑native test architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Knowledge of AI/ML‑driven testing, predictive analytics, model‑based testing.

• Experience with TDD/BDD frameworks.

• Understanding of networking/interoperability architectures.

• Experience with IoT, edge devices, AI/ML models, AR/VR, or digital health platforms.

• Certifications: TOGAF, ISTQB Expert/Advanced, cloud certifications, RAC.

 

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 95,000+ 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  

Experience Level

Senior Level