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A Day in the LifeThe Product DNA PLM team at Medtronic is responsible for building and enhancing enterprise PLM solutions that enable efficient product development, compliance, and lifecycle management across global operations.As a Test Engineer (Product DNA PLM), you will drive quality engineering and testing strategies for PLM platforms such as Windchill and ThingWorx. You will ensure end-to-end quality across applications, validate complex integrations, and support delivery across multiple agile workstreams.
You will collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, and architects to ensure applications meet functional, technical, and performance expectations in a fast-paced, regulated environment.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Test Strategy & Quality Engineering
- Define and execute end-to-end test strategies for PLM applications.
- Ensure adherence to quality standards, benchmarks, and best practices.
- Coordinate QA efforts across multiple workstreams.
- Act as a key point of contact for offshore QA teams.
- PLM Application Testing
- Validate configurations, customizations, and enhancements in Windchill and ThingWorx.
- Define test coverage for functional and technical components.
- Review solution design and technical documentation from a QA perspective.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.
- Functional & Business Validation
- Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand requirements.
- Define acceptance criteria and resolve requirement ambiguities.
- Validate end-to-end business workflows and user experiences.
- Ensure alignment with Product DNA processes.
- Integration & Enterprise Systems Testing
- Perform validation of integrations across CAD, ERP, MES, MDM, and PIM systems.
- Ensure data integrity, interface validation, and system interoperability.
- Identify and resolve cross-system issues and dependencies.
- Agile Delivery & Execution
- Work within Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies.
- Participate in cross-team coordination (Scrum of Scrums).
- Manage sprint-level test planning, execution, and reporting.
- Ensure timely delivery of test milestones and releases.
- Automation & DevOps
- Support development and enhancement of test automation frameworks.
- Contribute to CI/CD-driven testing practices.
- Enable continuous testing and quality gates.
- Performance & Architecture Validation
- Validate system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
- Collaborate with architects on solution validation.
- Risk & Issue Management
- Identify testing risks, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Track and resolve defects impacting system stability.
- Mitigate cross-release and cross-functional risks.
- Release & Deployment Readiness
- Assess application readiness for production deployment.
- Ensure defect closure and test completion.
- Support go-live and post-production validation.
- Collaboration
- Work closely with global teams across engineering, QA, and business.
- Ensure alignment between technical solutions and business needs.
- Contribute to overall quality ownership and accountability.
Required knowledge and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, IT, or related field with 14+ years of experience.
- 12-18 years of experience in QA/Test Engineering.
- Strong experience with Windchill PLM and ThingWorx.
- Experience in integration testing across enterprise systems.
- Knowledge of test strategy, automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
- Ability to work with distributed/offshore teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Nice to Haves: - Experience in medical devices or regulated environments.
- Knowledge of GxP, validation, and compliance processes.
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
- Familiarity with PLM data models and enterprise architecture.
- Experience working in global, cross-functional teams.
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.
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
