Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Job Title: Principal Engineer, Test

Company Profile:

Vantive has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney disease.  This job offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the design, development and life cycle management of Baxter’s dialysis systems. You will be responsible for developing creative solutions to challenging issues associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing dialysis product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test case design, test execution, test data preparation, test automation and defect reporting to ensure coverage and quality

• Build cutting edge test frameworks using latest technologies and/or enhance existing design

• Execute the suite of functional and regression test cases on simulated and real test infrastructure

• Contribute actively to development of testing tools/utilities on need basis

• Perform automation code reviews and enable enhanced code quality

• Interact with cross-functional team members to develop and refine test strategy and effort estimation

• Adherence to committed milestones and agreed scope of builds/releases by completing the assigned activities as planned, proactively highlighting dependencies & risks for assigned activities

• Ensure complete test coverage of SW changes/scope

• Drive reviews with quality team and ensure closure of all comments/gaps/non-compliances

• Review test artifacts and drive improvements in V&V efficiency across workstreams

• Communicate test results and defect reports to stakeholders periodically

• Adhere to agreed agile/scrum practices, deliverables and ceremonies and usage of JIRA on a daily basis

• Conduct trainings and provide assistance to junior test engineers as needed

• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems and possess the ability to think abstractly

Qualifications:

• 10-15 years of experience in software testing with minimum of 5 years as a senior SDET / Automation lead

• Proficient in testing methodologies, processes, tools and techniques

• Solid programming skills in C/C++/Java/Python

• Sound working knowledge of automation tools

• Deep expertise in building test automation frameworks for embedded software

• Experience working with simulated test beds and medical devices

• Possess superior debugging skills to discover causes of test failures and environment issues

• Good understanding of TDD/BDD methodologies

• Well versed with healthcare processes and best practices

• Sound in technical documentation

• Familiarity with Git/Gerrit, Jenkins and Linux OS

• Experience working in agile model and good knowledge of JIRA

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Quick learner and self-starter, able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Good understanding of regulatory standards such as ISO-13485, IEC-62304

Background/Experience:  Bachelors in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology or a related specialization with 6-10 years of related work experience

Reasonable Accommodation

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