Principal Engineer - Software

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strategize, design & develop test architecture and test framework for new and legacy applications using enterprise stack
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain test automation for functional, performance, security and reliability testing on multiple application platforms
• Perform code reviews to improve the quality of the test code base and optimize its execution
• Develop new capabilities and features for automated tests
• Interact with cross-functional team members to develop and refine test automation strategy, design and execution
• Communicate testing requirements and strategy to stakeholder and provide guidance to testers and suppliers as needed
• Lead the development and documentation of the product test architecture and test strategy
• Collaborate with verification team to drive improvements to test execution, quality and delivery, by seamless automation
• Plan and execute system integration activities to minimize issues in systems validation
• Develop and maintain an effective and corroborative working relationship with internal and external development partners. 

Primary Skills:

• Technology enthusiast with demonstrated work experience in verification of enterprise or embedded software
• Possess strong hands-on test script development experience in GUI / API or embedded systems
• Extensive experience in building test architectures / frameworks for complex products from scratch
• Should have good knowledge of automation tools like Selenium / Squish / Katalon Studio and API testing frameworks like RESTAssured
• Strong in programming concepts and unit testing frameworks
• Hands on experience configuring CI-CD with Jenkins, maven, svn/git
• A demonstrated track record in regulated software development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as aviation software.
• Experience working with medium to large V&V teams
• Excellent problem-solving skills with good experience on using system analysis and profiling tools for debugging and performance optimizations
• Experience in formulating verification strategies including and not limited to functional, non-functional, reliability, performance
• Experience in defining and building test architecture & test frameworks from scratch
• Working knowledge of enterprise software architecture nuances
• Knowledge of medical device software development & verification is highly preferred including knowledge of standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 14971
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Understands nuances of small to medium scaled enterprise software
• Experienced and demonstrated superior global collaboration
• Demonstrates spirit of innovation
• Ability to lead small to medium sized team technically and raising his/her own performance and others from time to time
• Demonstrated risk taking ability and challenging status quo
• Well organized, meticulous, good at understanding the big picture.
• Self-motivated, results driven individual, passionate about technology
• Excellent communication and coordination skills while working in multi-site environment

Background and/or Experience:

Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related specialization with 11-15 years of relevant industry experience

Desired Skills

• ISTQB Certification
• Experience in verification of renal care/dialysis products
• Verification of cloud based applications (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS)
• Exposure to data analytics/big data testing is a plus
• Knowledge of medical device software development is highly preferred including knowledge of standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485

Reasonable Accommodation

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