Sr. Software Verification and Validation Engineer

Position Summary:

The Senior Software Verification and Validation Engineer position is a key member of the software development team for Bracco Medical Technologies (BMT) and will develop verification test software across the global product portfolio of the "Digital Health" command center and medical devices. As a member of BMT's global R&D software engineering organization participate and consult on activities in all phases of the software development lifecycle, with focus on verification and validation testing of medical devices and connectivity solutions. This role leverages software testing proficiency to translate product requirements into test strategies and document work to ensure compliance within a regulated Product Development Process (PDP) and Quality Management System (QMS).

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop automated software testing solutions for a medical device
• Create overall software test and automation strategy
• Develop automated test protocols for verification of software capabilities as specified in the requirements
• Test the requirements, architecture, and design for medical devices to meet the customer's needs
• Collaborate with the software architect and systems engineers to ensure the software architecture meets specifications, and there is readiness for verification and validation, based on hazards and customer needs
• Develop, test, maintain, and document software testing components, applications, scripts, and tools.
• Participate in all phases of product development as needed such as reviewing requirements, architecture, design, risk assessment, and testing execution.
• Drive the culture of engineering excellence and commitment to quality
• Provide input to requirements development
• Develop automated test software
• Prepare test reports of testing results, including formal tests and ad-hoc tests, to document coverage of requirements
• Provide input to project teams on effort estimation and resource requirements
• Provide input to product verification and validation test plans
• Collaborate with 3rd party vendors for test strategy

Minimum

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of automated software testing experience and automated test scripts
• Demonstrated experience in Python or equivalent scripting language
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills
• Proficiency in developing software test components
• Experience with test automation including implementing test automation frameworks
• Experience with test management, configuration management and risk management
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate and influence within R&D, Quality and Program Management for effective program execution

Preferred

• MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
• 3+ years of Python experience
• Knowledge of medical quality standards
• Experience with the development tools: MS Visual Studio, Jira, Git
• Proficiency in CI/CD Pipeline tools like Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Medical Device Interoperability experience with HL7, DICOM and PACS, HIS/RIS
• Experience of developing medical device products
• Experience in medical device connectivity and connected drug-delivery systems
• Demonstrated experience working with a multi-discipline global team
• Experience analyzing experimental data, ad-hoc data, reliability data, performance data, etc.

Other

• Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time