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Principal Test Engineer/Test Lead
Job in
Northridge, Los Angeles County, California, 91324, USA
Listed on 2026-08-08
Listing for:
Minimed
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-08
Job specializations:
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
IT QA Tester / Automation, Quality Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Principal Test Engineer/Test Lead
At Mini Med, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.
Technical Leadership & Test Strategy- Define and drive the overall test strategy, quality roadmap, and release readiness activities across multiple products and programs.
- Serve as the technical authority and subject matter expert (SME) for software, systems, integration, connectivity, and end-to-end testing activities.
- Establish quality engineering best practices, testing standards, and governance models across teams.
- Influence product quality decisions through data-driven analysis, risk assessments, and engineering leadership.
- Lead technical reviews of requirements, architecture, design, risk analysis, and testability assessments.
- Drive organizational improvements in quality engineering processes, methodologies, and testing effectiveness.
- Lead testing activities for mobile applications across Android and iOS platforms.
- Define and execute validation strategies for connected medical devices and digital health ecosystems.
- Oversee Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication testing, including pairing, connectivity, synchronization, recovery, failover, and interoperability scenarios.
- Ensure end-to-end testing coverage across hardware, firmware, mobile applications, cloud services, APIs, and external integrations.
- Validate usability, performance, reliability, compatibility, scalability, and customer workflows across supported platforms.
- Lead Verification & Validation (V&V) activities throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Develop test strategies, test plans, test protocols, traceability matrices, and test reports.
- Ensure compliance with Design Controls and applicable regulatory requirements, including: FDA regulations IEC 62304 ISO 13485 Risk Management processes Cybersecurity and Privacy requirements
- Support audits, inspections, CAPAs, field actions, and regulatory submissions.
- Ensure complete traceability from requirements through verification evidence and product release.
- Lead cloud services validation and API integration testing activities.
- Ensure secure and reliable interoperability across distributed systems and enterprise platforms.
- Define test coverage for data integrity, synchronization, fault tolerance, resiliency, and disaster recovery scenarios.
- Collaborate with architecture and development teams to validate complex system integrations and customer workflows.
- Define and execute organizational automation strategies across mobile, cloud, API, and system testing domains.
- Lead development and expansion of test automation frameworks utilizing tools such as:
Appium Selenium API Automation Frameworks CI/CD-integrated testing solutions - Establish automated quality gates and release validation processes.
- Drive continuous testing initiatives throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Improve testing efficiency, coverage, repeatability, and release confidence through automation.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled testing technologies and intelligent quality engineering practices.
- Leverage Generative AI and AI-assisted tools to:
Generate and optimize test cases Improve requirements analysis Enhance defect triage Accelerate test design activities Improve documentation quality - Implement predictive quality analytics and risk-based test prioritization using AI-driven insights.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve engineering productivity and product quality.
- Establish governance and best practices for responsible use of AI within regulated medical device development environments.
- Champion quality engineering transformation initiatives through intelligent automation and data-driven decision making.
- Lead risk-based testing strategies across all phases of product development.
- Drive identification, prioritization, and mitigation of product quality risks.
- Lead critical defect investigations and complex root-cause analysis activities.
- Support post-market surveillance, customer escalations, and field issue investigations.
- Analyze operational metrics, field performance data, customer feedback, and quality trends to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Drive implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to improve product reliability and customer outcomes.
- Lead and coordinate testing activities across geographically distributed and offshore engineering teams.
- Define project priorities, testing scope, milestones, and resource allocation strategies.
- Delegate work, provide technical direction, and ensure…
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