Principal Eng, Test

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to effectively define, communicate and execute test strategies to ensure product quality and delivery are maintained.
• Lead and collaborate with verification team to drive improvements to test execution, quality and delivery.
• 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 strategy, design and execution.
• Lead the development and documentation of the product test architecture and test strategy.
• Plan and execute system integration activities to minimize issues in systems verification.
• Contribute to design and development of test cases, test scripts, defect reports and traceability matrix.
• Review work products including test plans, test cases, test data and automated test scripts.
• Contribute to efficiency improvements within the V&V function.
• Play a front ending role in ISO audits and quality reviews.
• Establish traceability of verification artifacts to requirements.
• Drive simplification and process optimization initiatives across the function.
• Develop and maintain an effective and corroborative working relationship with internal and external development partners.

Qualifications

• A demonstrated track record in regulated software development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as aviation software.
• Experience leading medium to large V&V teams.
• Experience in defining and executing verification strategies including functional, non-functional, reliability and performance.
• Working knowledge of enterprise or embedded software architecture nuances.
• Hands on experience with software test automation tools.
• Experience in building/enhancing test automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of medical device software development & verification is highly preferred including knowledge of standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and demonstrated superior collaboration with stakeholders.
• 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 challenges status quo.

Background And/or Experience
Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communications or related field with 12-15 years of related work experience.

Reasonable Accommodation
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