Principal Test Automation Engineer

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 Life

Medtronic

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Our Purpose 

The Physiological Sensing R&D team is dedicated to the end-to-end development, continuous advancement, and clinical validation of innovative monitoring technologies that measure, interpret, and leverage physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Their expertise spans anaesthesia and depth of sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, and the integration of predictive algorithms and clinical decision support solutions. By focusing on non-invasive, real-time technologies, they empower clinicians with actionable insights in surgery, critical care, and other high-risk settings.

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 A Day in The Life Of:

The Principal Test Automation Engineer will lead the planning, design, implementation, and qualification of automated and semi-automated test systems to verify functional and performance requirements of medical device systems and subsystems.

• Partners closely with systems, software, hardware, and algorithm engineers to translate product requirements into robust, scalable test strategies for physiologic monitoring technologies such as pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG based systems, and other sensing technologies.

• Leads development of test architecture, automation frameworks, instrumentation, and data analysis, while also providing technical leadership and responsibility for the overall health, reliability, and continuous improvement of test systems.

• Define and execute comprehensive test strategies that verify functional, performance, reliability, and system-level requirements across the product lifecycle.

• Serve as the technical authority for assigned test systems, ensuring robustness, maintainability, scalability, and long-term sustainability.

• Guide design-for-testability improvements by influencing product and architecture decisions early in development.

• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks, instrumentation interfaces, simulators, and data analysis tools to enable repeatable and high-quality testing.

• Analyse complex test data, identify trends and failure modes, and provide clear technical insights and recommendations to development and leadership teams.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers on test design, automation best practices, and problem-solving approaches.

• Ensure test systems and processes comply with applicable regulatory, quality, and safety standards for medical devices.

Key Skills & Experience  

• Deep expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining automated and semi-automated test systems for embedded, electromechanical, or software driven products.

• Strong proficiency in test automation programming and scripting languages (e.g., Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, C/C++, or similar).

• Experience with automated test frameworks such as the Robot Framework or LabView desired.

• Proven ability to define test architecture, automation frameworks, and long term test system strategies for complex products or platforms.

• Extensive experience translating system and subsystem requirements into comprehensive test strategies and coverage.

• Hands-on experience with test equipment, instrumentation, simulators, and data acquisition systems.

• Strong skills in test data analysis, failure mode identification, and communication of technical insights and risk assessments.

• Experience influencing design for testability and product architecture decisions through early and continuous engagement with development teams.

• Familiarity with medical device development processes, quality systems, and regulatory expectations for verification and validation.

• Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers, leading technical reviews, and driving standardization and best practices without direct people management responsibilities.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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.
 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Ireland: 78,320.00 EUR - 117,480.00 EUR |  

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 95,000+ 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