Manager, Systems Test Engineering - Medical Technologies

Why Join Bracco Medical Technologies?

We care as much about our employees as we do our patients. Our culture fosters a work environment where employees can thrive, be passionate and have fun along the way. Each member of the Bracco Medical Technologies team has the power to make a difference......every day!

The Manager, Systems Test Engineering provides technical and people, leadership for a team responsible for system-level testing of complex medical devices across the Cardiovascular and Ultrasound businesses. This leader is accountable for developing and advancing systems test engineering capabilities spanning design verification, validation, reliability engineering, test methods, fixtures, tools, automation, and test infrastructure.

The role serves as a knowledgeable systems engineering test mentor and partners closely with Software, Hardware, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Manufacturing, and Program Management. The Manager will establish test strategies and engineering practices that improve product quality, reliability, development efficiency, and confidence in product performance while ensuring compliance with applicable design controls, standards, and regulatory requirements.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Functional/Technical Leadership:

Provide technical knowledge for Systems Test Engineering across new product development, sustaining engineering, and product improvement initiatives.

Contribute to the development of system test and design verification strategies for complex medical devices, including hardware, software, firmware, electromechanical, and integrated system functionality.

Provide technical guidance in requirements-based testing, design verification, validation support, test method development, test fixtures, automated testing, data acquisition, test tools, and test infrastructure.

Support verification approaches provide objective evidence that products meet system and subsystem requirements, intended performance, and applicable regulatory and quality requirements.

Support risk-based test strategies that connect product requirements, architecture, use cases, risk management, verification, and reliability.

Contribute to technical oversight of test protocols, methods, fixtures, equipment qualification, test method validation, data analysis, traceability, and verification reports.

Contribute to automation and modern test engineering practices to improve test coverage, repeatability, efficiency, data quality, and speed of product development.

Contribute to discussions around reliability engineering principles throughout product development, including reliability planning, reliability demonstration testing, accelerated life testing, environmental/stress testing, statistical analysis, failure analysis, and reliability growth.

Contribute to technical direction for investigation of complex system failures and product performance issues, ensuring effective root-cause analysis and implementation of appropriate corrective actions.

Partner with Systems, Hardware, Software, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure robust product architectures and testable requirements.

Contribute to technical discussions during design reviews, risk reviews, verification readiness reviews, and other product development milestones.

Support continuous improvement of engineering procedures, standards, tools, laboratory capabilities, and best practices while maintaining compliance with the Quality Management System and applicable medical device regulations and standards.

People Leadership:

Coach, and develop Systems Test Engineers, building both technical depth and leadership capability.

Contribute to discussions around expectations, priorities, accountability, and performance objectives aligned with product development and business needs.

Support the team's technical capabilities in system verification, validation, reliability, automation, test method development, fixtures, tools, data analysis, and medical device product development.

Support understanding of current and future organizational capabilities and contribute to talent and staffing plans to address business and technology needs.

Provide ongoing coaching, technical mentorship, performance feedback, and career development for team members.

Support the creation of individual development and succession plans and identify opportunities for engineers to expand technical expertise and leadership responsibilities.

Support a culture of engineering rigor, technical…