Sr Principal Engineer (Test Architect) Front Line Care

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role at Baxter:

Baxter’s Front Line Care business is a 1.1B$ business comprising of Connected monitoring, Respiratory health, Cardiology, Intelligent diagnostic groups.  The products, used by clinicians in acute and ambulatory care settings globally.

Position Overview

A Principal Engineer (Test Architect) for V&V will be responsible for formulating Test strategy , Automation framework, Drive Test quality improvements covering New Product development and sustaining engineering catering to our new and existing product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

This position does not have any direct reports. You will need to work collaboratively with R&D and cross functions.

The role is located in the BRD facility in Bangalore India

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• 15+ years of solid experience in Test / V&V Activities with Minimum of 5+ years as a Test/V&V Architect for a medical product
• Responsible for the Test architecture and design of automation framework, makes design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution etc.
• Prepares ,Reviews and approves the test deliverables for releases/Project
• Solid understanding and implementation of BDD
• Demonstrates customer focus by ensuring quality of releases and timely resolution of field reported issues
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding the requirements.
• Identifies key module/product level technical risks and assists in developing mitigation and recovery plan
• Review work products and ensure the quality of deliverables
• Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.
• Leads and coaches V&V team members.
• Drives the application of principles of SDLC and methodologies like IEC62304,Lean/Agile, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and testing techniques.

Qualifications / Experience and/or Background

• Excellent Test architecture, design and implementation skills (preferably for an product ground up)
• Strong Object-Oriented development and design knowledge and experience
• Deep understanding of technology & test development principles:

  Analysis and Design: Object oriented architecture, Design Patterns

  Programming Languages like Pythonetc.

  Development and Continuous Integration tools like Azure DevOps, BitBucket etc.

  Hands on working in Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)

  Web framework : Express, Java Spring boot, Django

  Automation tools : Selenium

• Exposure and Hands on working knowledge in BDD
• Exposure and Hands on working knowledge in Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges on enterprise products.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process.

Personal Characteristics

• Excellent communication, inter-personal and leadership skills 
• Firm decision maker and shall possess good influencing skills
• Openness to collaborate in interest of project/organization.
• Proactive and self-driven, possesses due sense of urgency                   
• Shall possess systems mindset and good problem-solving abilities.
• Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented
• Coaching capabilities.
• Worked in Global environment

A Career That Matters

Baxter’s employees are united in a mission to save and sustain lives. We are passionate about applying scientific innovation to meet the needs of the millions of people worldwide who depend on our medically necessary therapies and technologies. We focus on increasing access to healthcare, innovating in crucial areas of unmet need, and pursuing creative collaborations that bring our mission to life for patients every day.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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