Senior Systems Test Engineer

Job Opportunity At Boston Scientific

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information, and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing - whatever your ambitions.

Overview: At Boston Scientific, our products and technologies are used to diagnose or treat a wide range of medical conditions including heart, digestive, pulmonary, vascular, urological, pelvic health, and chronic pain conditions. We are a leading innovator of medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. We continue to innovate in key areas and are extending our innovations into new geography and high-growth adjacency markets.

Participate as a member of our FW/SW test team for Electronic Medical Equipment (EME) systems supporting multiple BSC divisions. Utilize a variety of new and proven technologies to test life-changing systems to patients and clinicians in support of BSC's mission. The position is focused on enabling new product development opportunities in BSC.

Work Mode: At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an onsite work model, requiring employees to be present in our Arden Hills, MN office at least four to five days per week. Your responsibilities will include:

• Work alongside peers to design and deliver highly technical solutions for a variety of projects.
• This can include, but not limited to software architecture, implementation, integration, and testing for complex, connected electronic medical equipment ("capital") systems and systems-of-systems.
• Define and follow best practices for medical device software development.
• Designs, defines, updates, implements, and tests software/firmware test protocols by using current engineering test methods and technologies.
• Documents software/firmware test plans, results, reports, and memos.
• Methods used are determined by approved procedures and standards.
• Tracks software/firmware test engineering effort by creating and maintaining records in the approved tracking management tool.
• Communicates status and priority to the test team and management where appropriate.
• Collaborates with firmware, system, hardware, and software engineers to provide meaningful innovation.
• Continuously improves process and work methodologies by interfacing with peers/cross-functional groups and analyzing activities to improve workflow and work processes.
• Managing third party designers, vendors, and contractors to deliver high quality engineering solutions at an accelerated pace.

Required qualifications:

• Testing of software or firmware-based systems.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent engineering field: Bachelors with 5+ years' experience Or Masters with 3+ year experience.
• Application or Embedded software test experience, preferably with medical devices. Alternatively, Industrial software testing would also be relevant.
• Excellent Analytical Skills.
• Experience with development languages like C/C++/Python.
• Experience in modern Source Code Management (SCM) tools such as git.
• Travel can be up to 10% to BSC divisions and clinics.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working within a quality system, IEC and ISO standards relevant to medical device software, lifecycle and risk management (i.e. IEC 62304).
• Passion for understanding and solving problems for end users, with an ability to translate into software/firmware requirements, design, and test specifications.
• Track record of strong cross-functional collaboration, influence without authority, and project management enabling highly effective project teams.
• Proven self-starter who runs towards critical issues, ambiguous requirements, or loosely defined challenges with a demonstrated ability to rally teams to achieve business results.
• Demonstrated history of learning new platforms and development environments to best meet project needs.
• Test development experience with internally developed or off the shelf test tools.
• Strong communications and time management abilities.
• Development experience with global teams.

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.