Senior Systems Test Engineer

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Sr. Systems Test Engineer is a member of Novanta R&D center in Brno which provides a wide range of R&D services for various business units in Novanta.

As Sr. Systems Test Engineer you will partner with Software Design, SW Test and Test Automation Platform team. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and compliance of medical devices through automated testing. Your duties will 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.

Your 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, plans and procedures.
• Creation of mostly automated test cases. Manual in the minority. Implement test cases using C# language as “Scripting” language (in the form of simpler scripts).
• Collaborate closely with the automation framework team. This team ensures 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 and work 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 in compliance with internal processes.
• Actively engage in identifying and adopting best practices in systems testing.
• Opportunity to plan, coordinate, and report on behalf of the agile team. Drive the team to meet its commitments. Mentor junior colleagues.

Other Tasks

• Coordinate with system engineers on requirements and testing environments to ensure efficient execution of testing.
• Define testing strategies and conduct comprehensive testing (including the preparation and execution of test cases) in accordance with system requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• 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 our business unit.

Your Experience, Education, and Skills

• Experience with software or systems testing and test/verification processes.
• Experience with embedded systems/hardware devices testing.
• Experience in system test design and implementation.
• Experience with test automation.
• Mid-level knowledge of some object-oriented programming language (C#/C++/Python/other) and willingness to learn C# for test automation.
• At least bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation or similar fields.
• Good verbal and written English for communication within the team.

Considered a plus

• Mentoring experience of junior colleagues is a big plus.
• Experience with improving and launching new processes.
• 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