Lead System Test Engineer

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Summary

As a Lead System Test Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and compliance of medical devices, mostly through automated testing. Your duties include designing and executing test cases, collaborating with cross-functional teams mostly with Automation test platform team, conducting a variety of tests, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Your role will be crucial in ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of our medical devices. Main products are insufflators and pumps for minimal invasive surgery.

Primary Responsibilities

·       Contribute to the development of systems requirements by offering insights and perspectives as a verifier to the system design engineers.

·       Develop, design and document formal system test requirements, plans and procedures.

·       Creation of mostly automated test cases. Manual in the minority. Implement test cases using LabVIEW.

·       Collaborate closely with the automation framework team. This team ensures the connection to devices we test and enables automation.

·       Run test cases through our automated test platform.

·       Document any non-compliance in the defect tracking database and work closely with developers to reproduce and investigate issues.

·       Research and evaluate suitable test tools and test methods.

·       Create and/or maintain automated test environments.

·       Make sure all the features, issues and tests are documented in compliance with internal processes.

·       Actively engage in identifying and adopting best practices in systems testing.

·       Opportunity to plan, coordinate, and report on behalf of the agile team. Drive the team to meet its commitments.

General Tasks

·       Coordinate with System engineers on requirements and testing environments to ensure testing can be executed efficiently.

·       Drive definition and coordination of testing strategies

·       Complete testing (preparation of test cases and executing them) per system requirements as needed during product lifecycle.

·       Mentoring and technical leading of junior colleagues

·       Lead by example as a lead member of the small but growing local WOM Systems Verification team in Brno. System testers are fully integrated with the other team members on the site in Berlin, forming the entire Systems Verification team in the WOM business unit.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

·       Deep experience with system test/verification processes and methods.

·       Deep experience in system test design and implementation.

·       Deep experience with embedded systems and hardware/software interaction.

·       Deep experience with LabVIEW development.

·       Excellent communications skills needed for daily communication between multiple teams.

·       At least Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation or similar field.

·       Good verbal and written English.

Considered a plus

·       Mid-level knowledge of C# or any other OOP languages with willingness to learn C# for test automation and be willing to deepen this knowledge for future transition from LabVIEW to C#.

·       Knowledge of functional safety standards or other industrial safety standards is a plus.

·       Experience with agile processes or specifically Azure DevOps is a plus.

Travel Requirements  

Support occasional business travels
 

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