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Principal Test Engineer​/Test Lead

Job in Northridge, Los Angeles County, California, 91324, USA
Listing for: Minimed
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-08
Job specializations:
  • Quality Assurance - QA/QC
    IT QA Tester / Automation, Quality Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Northridge

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.
Mobile & Connected Medical Device Testing
  • 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.
Verification, Validation & Regulatory Compliance
  • 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.
Cloud, API & Systems Integration Testing
  • 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.
Test Automation & CI/CD Excellence
  • 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.
AI-Driven Quality Engineering
  • 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.
Product Quality, Risk Management & Field Investigation
  • 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.
Global Test Leadership & Delivery Management
  • 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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