Principal Embedded Software Test Engineer - Abiomed

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Danvers, MA +1

Principal Embedded Software Test Engineer for a medical device company (Abiomed) focusing on cardiovascular solutions. Responsibilities include leading test plan development, execution of manual and automated tests for embedded software, collaborating with engineering teams, enhancing test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior members. Requires experience with embedded platforms, real-time operating systems, Python scripting, and understanding of FDA cybersecurity guidelines. Medical device industry experience is strongly preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the development and execution of manual and automated test plans, test cases, and scripts for embedded software per IEC 62304
  2. Collaborate with embedded software engineers, hardware teams, and systems engineers to identify testing requirements and troubleshooting issues.
  3. Management of small to mid-size projects of varying complexities.
  4. Work with internal and external partner resources to test and support release software in a timely manner per SOPs.
  5. Enhance the capabilities of the test automation framework and CI/CD pipelines to improve testing efficiency and coverage of embedded software, firmware and hardware integration.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of manual and automated testing experience on an embedded platform with real-time operating system (micro-controller, microprocessor)
  • 2+ years of experience in writing/scripting python and windows shell programming
  • Good understanding of FDA 524B cybersecurity guidelines
  • Prior experience in designing fixtures and tools for test automation
  • Familiarity with behavior-driven software development & automation testing
  • Familiarity with Jira, Jenkins, Jama, Gitlab and other DevOps managed applications
  • Comfortable with system-level troubleshooting using electrical and software tools

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of QNX
  • Experience in the medical device industry
  • Working knowledge of cardiovascular physiology

What the JD emphasized

  • embedded software per IEC 62304
  • FDA 524B cybersecurity guidelines
  • medical device industry