Senior Systems Test Engineer

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Summary

As a senior system test engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and compliance of medical devices mostly through automated testing. Your duties include designing and executing test cases, collaborating with cross-functional teams and the automation test platform team, conducting a variety of tests, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Your role will be crucial in ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of our medical devices. Our main products are insufflators and pumps for minimally invasive surgery.

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of systems requirements by offering insights and perspectives as a verifier to the system design engineers.
• Develop, design and document formal system test requirements, plansand procedures.
• Creation of mostly automated test cases. Manual in the minority.Implement test cases using LabVIEW.
• Collaborate closely with the automation framework team. This teamensures the connection to devices we test and enables automation.
• Run test cases through our automated test platform.
• Document any non-compliance in the defect tracking database andwork closely with developers to reproduce and investigate issues.
• Research and evaluate suitable test tools and test methods.
• Create and/or maintain automated test environments.
• Make sure all the features, issues and tests are documented incompliance with internal processes.
• Actively engage in identifying and adopting best practices in systemstesting.
• Opportunity to plan, coordinate, and report on behalf of the agile team.Drive the team to meet its commitments

General Tasks

• Coordinate with System engineers on requirements and testing environment to ensure testing can be executed efficiently.
• Drive definition of testing strategies and complete testing (preparation of test cases and executing them) per system requirements as needed during product life cycle.
• Lead by example as a senior member of the small but growing local Systems Verification team in Brno. System testers are fully integrated with the other team members on the site in Berlin, forming the entire Systems Verification team in the business unit

Required Experience, Education, and Skills

• Experience with system test/verification processes and methods.
• Advanced experience in system test design and implementation.
• Experience with embedded systems and hardware/software interaction.
• Experience with LabVIEW development.
• Good communications skills needed for daily communication between multiple teams.
• At least Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation or similar field.
• Good verbal and written English.

Considered A Plus:

• Mid-level knowledge of C# or any other OOP languages with willingness to learn C# for test automation and be willing to deepen this knowledge for future transition from LabVIEW to C#.
• Knowledge of functional safety standards or other industrial safety standards is a plus
• Experience with agile processes or specifically Azure DevOps is a plus.

Benefits

• Extra week of vacation (25 days/year)
• 5 sick days per calendar year
• 1 day of paid time off for charitable activities/year
• Flexi Pass vouchers with a nominal value of 1000 CZK/month
• Contribution to supplementary pension insurance 1000 CZK/month (after the probationary period)
• Flexible working hours (core 10 – 15:00)
• Every year, wages are reassessed from 1 April
• Meal vouchers in the form of a flat rate – monetary value (123,90 CZK/day)
• Monetary allowance for working from home
• MultiSport for only 300 CZK/month
• Bonuses for recommending a new employee up to CZK 110,000
• Free refreshments at the workplace (juice, hot drinks – coffee, tea; healthy snacks and fruit/vegetables 2 times a week)
• Training, language courses, career advancement
• Dog-friendly office, Family-friendly environment
• Corporate events – Summer Party, Christmas Party, Family Day, SportDay, Board Game Afternoon, Meet & Greet and more
• Free parking for employees and shower at the workplace for athletes

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