Abiomed
Software Manual Test Engineer
Job#: 17EG-25
Positions: 1
Posted: 03/07/2017
Job Type:
Location: Danvers, MA
Department: Engineering
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
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Job Description

ABIOMED® is redefining team-driven success while reshaping heart recovery. Here, new ideas are welcomed and encouraged, learning is constant, and our dynamic setting enables positive people to do profoundly important work.

Are you an engineer with a passion and talent for software testing? Do you get a charge identifying defects and deficiencies in software, and the satisfaction that comes in making good software – great? Are you the detail-oriented type, often finding things that others overlook? Can you interpret product requirements, understand engineering specs and from them write test procedures that are logical, precise and thorough? If you answered ‘Yes’, and you have a desire to make a true impact on patient health – then we want to hear from you! Discover your full potential with Abiomed®, where you will develop professionally, and contribute to a company imagining the future of heart care.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Read, analyze and comprehend product requirements and engineering specifications.
  • Provide clear feedback (redlines), on content (clarity, accuracy, completeness and testability).
  • Develop test procedures that support and prove out product and engineering requirements.
  • Design test procedures after analyzing product risks/hazards and for their identified mitigations.
  • Execute hands-on black-box style testing utilizing well known methodologies.
  • Produce documentation that adheres to FDA quality regulations for medical devices (CFR 21, Part 280).
  • Test and identify defects in the system, enter and track them. Ensure they are resolved.
  • Help drive the product development phases by continually improving test processes.
  • Write regression strategies, integration procedures and other end game test activities.
  • Generate trace matrices, formal test evidence and other documentation for final submissions.
  • Support and participate in automated testing efforts and test tool designs.
  • Establish procedures that support FDA and IEC guidance documents.
  • Attend and represent V&V at engineering and other company meetings.




Skills/Requirements
  • Requires a BS degree in Computer Science or a similar degree in an engineering science.
  • Requires 1-5 years of work experience in a software development or software testing.
  • Experience in the medical device industry or a biomedical background preferred.
  • Experience in Agile Scrum methodologies a plus.
  • Experience using simulators and/or waveform generators a plus.
  • Experience with testing software algorithms a plus.
  • Experience designing, building and debugging test fixtures and software tools a plus.
  • Experience testing embedded systems and RTOS’s a plus.
  • Experience with C programming, Python scripting, and BDD a plus.

Visit us --- and see the impact our products have on patients --- at www.abiomed.com.

ABIOMED is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.  We are committed to the policy of providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or national origin.

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