Manager for Global Testing

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the LifeMedtronic is expanding their footprint for Diabetes Care with a center in Pune and as the Manager for Global Testing for Digital Technology, India, this role is responsible for leading, mentoring, and managing a team of quality engineers / automation engineers/ performance engineers promoting collaboration across diverse teams, implement strategies to identify, assess, and resolve quality issues and challenges within Digital Technology.
The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it.
Our portfolio of innovative solutions is designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control, while spending less time managing their disease.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

As a Manager for Global Testing within Digital Technology, this role requires expertise in enhancing the quality, efficiency, scalability, performance, and user satisfaction of our system.

• Manage a team of quality engineers to provide guidance or feedback on areas of improvement.

• Coach, motivate and inspire QE team members to achieve and exceed performance results.

• Develop robust functional and performance tests with team to support functional and sizing requirements, collaborating closely with development and operations teams to experiment and optimize environment sizing.

• Increase automation in the modules with early feedback to developers by shifting left and influencing the right tool sets required.

• Analyze test cases and conditions to determine optimal running tests by evaluating root cause in product support tickets and adjusting test patterns

• Stay up to date on contemporary software development best practices, emerging technologies, and design patterns, contributing to thought leadership initiatives.

• Develop and implement QA strategies aligned with business goals

• Drive adoption of industry standard QE methodologies and practices.

• Collaborate with development and product teams to ensure quality is integrated throughout the SDVLC

• Conduct code reviews of test scripts and assist in complex debugging scenarios

• Define and track quality metrics to identify trends, areas for improvement, and opportunities for optimization.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (Computer Science, Computer Networking, IT Systems) 

• 10 - 15 years’ experience as a QA and testing Manager. Responsible for coaching, mentoring, and career development.

• Proven ability to create, revamp, improve processes to increase efficiency. 

• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, people management and best practices.

• Understanding technologies, mentoring team, managing QE Team across multiple platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, RCM, Automation and Performance.

• Excellent leadership and team management abilities.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Experience with distributed systems / micro service architecture.

• Relevant certifications in ISTQB.

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here