Test Architect (Monitoring Devices)

Medtronic • Lafayette, CO

5d • Onsite

About The Position

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 At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. Medtronic's Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) business works together with the global healthcare community to solve clinically meaningful problems, with technologies and solutions for blood oxygen management, respiratory compromise, and perioperative complications. Our vision is to empower patient safety - anytime, anywhere. We are hiring a Test Architect to define and lead comprehensive testing strategy for our legacy monitoring devices. This role is responsible for ensuring robust, purposeful software testing across multiple projects and guiding the long-term strategy for both manual and automated test approaches. You will partner closely with test engineers, software architects, product owners, and developers to ensure requirements are understood, testable, and verifiable. If you are: A strategic thinker who enjoys mapping complex requirements to testable solutions. A leader who can influence and work collaboratively with technical peers Motivated by improving systems, creating structure, and building repeatable best practices This may be the ideal role for you!

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Strong experience in software testing, including test strategy, test planning, and requirements‑based verification.
• Proven experience in translating requirements into testable elements.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners across software, systems, and product teams.
• Experience determining automation feasibility and understanding both manual and automated testing workflows
• Experience in the medical device industry, or regulated industry with high reliability or safety critical requirements (defense, aerospace, etc).
• Biomedical engineering or software engineering degree.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Understanding of database structures and how applications interact with underlying data.
• Prior experience testing software products tied to hardware or medical devices.

Responsibilities

• Develop holistic test strategies for new features, enhancements, and sustaining engineering work.
• Translate user needs and formal requirements into structured, comprehensive test plans.
• Determine which test cases should be automated vs. executed manually based on complexity, frequency, cost, and strategic value.
• Collaborate closely with manual testers and automation engineers, delegating work and setting expectations for execution.
• Partner with software architects and product owners to understand system design and ensure effective coverage.
• Help harmonize testing methodologies and best practices across multiple projects within the organization.
• Provide technical project leadership, coaching, and guidance across test engineering teams

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level