Principal Eng, Test

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Job Title:

Principal Engineer – Software Verification & Validation

Summary:

Baxter has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney disease.  This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the design, development and support of Baxter’s Cloud based software that is related to our connected medicine strategy.  The Cloud based software will support connectivity of medical devices (Internet-of-Things “IoT”) and mobile devices in the home and in clinics.  The Cloud based software will support management of medical treatments at home/clinics and also enable management of the supply chain related to various medical treatments.  The Cloud based software will also have an analytics component that will enable improved clinical outcomes and enable Baxter to develop better strategy based on deep insights.

You will be responsible for verification and validation of software products for new and existing products of our Kidney Care division’s Digital Health portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, demonstrate excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to effectively define, communicate and execute test strategies to ensure product quality and delivery are maintained.
• Lead and collaborate with verification team to drive improvements to test execution, quality and delivery.
• Communicate testing requirements and strategy and provide guidance to software testers and stakeholders as needed.
• Plan and execute system integration activities to minimize issues in systems verification.
• Contribute to design and development of test cases, test scripts, defect reports and traceability matrix.
• Review work products including test plans, test cases, test data and automated test scripts.
• Contribute to efficiency improvements within the V&V function.
• Play a front ending role in ISO audits and quality reviews.
• Establish traceability of verification artifacts to requirements.
• Drive simplification and process optimization initiatives across the function.
• Develop and maintain an effective and corroborative working relationship with internal and external development partners. 

Qualifications:

• A demonstrated track record in regulated software development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as aviation software.
• Experience leading medium to large V&V teams.
• Experience in defining and executing verification strategies including functional, non-functional, reliability and performance.
• Working knowledge of enterprise or embedded software architecture nuances.
• Hands on experience with software test automation tools.
• Experience in building/enhancing test automation frameworks.
• 5 years of experience into data & analytics projects.
• Strong Knowledge of the Data visualization tools Tableau Or BI.
• Strong learning and comprehension of SQL and capacity to write SQL Queries.
• Knowledge of medical device software development & verification is highly preferred including knowledge of standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and demonstrated superior collaboration with stakeholders.
• Ability to lead small to medium sized team technically and raising his/her own performance and others from time to time.
• Demonstrated risk taking ability and challenges status quo.

Background and/or Experience:

Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communications or related field with 12-15 years of related work experience.

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