A Day in the Life
Engineering Manager - Test (R&D) would be accountable to sustain and maximize the Engineering excellence (Development & Verification). This individual must build the product innovation culture and the right capabilities to ensure superior performance, product safety and reliability, and value delivery. This individual must equip the teams with the right skills, tools, and processes to deliver products in an iterative and incremental manner. The individual shall be able to inspire, coach and grow the Engineering Supervisors and Scrum teams with diverse skill sets and technologists.
Must Have
- Masters or Bachelors in Engineering or Technology in Computer Science, or related field is required
- Minimum of 12 years of experience in a techno-managerial role, managing software product development
- Minimum of 5 years of people management and program management experience within R & D engineering
- Critical experience in handling large to medium new product development in design, development & verification of software application on desktop, web, mobile, embedded and cloud platforms
- Experience in Microsoft (C#, .Net) and J2EE (Java, spring, web services, REST, APIs) technology stacks
- Experience in native and hybrid mobile app technologies such as java, objective-c, xamarin, ionic and cordova
- Experience in digital connectivity (IoT) such as cloud, BLE, wearables, sensors and edge intelligence
- Experience in DevOps technologies such as jenkins, ansible, gradle, elasticsearch, dockers and splunk
- Experience in extreme programming practices such as test-driven/behavior-driven development
- Knowledge and/or experience in FDA design controls and medical software is preferred
- Knowledge and/or experience in Design Thinking and Agile dual-track development is preferred
- Prior experience working with cross-cultural teams is preferred
- Certification in Agile SCRUM / SAFe Agile is required
- Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Ability to lead a team of size 20 to 30 employees, within a large, diverse MNC
- Demonstrated expertise in the field of product development and product engineering
- Demonstrated expertise in lean/agile/XP processes and an understanding of the environment and tools required for efficient and effective delivery of innovative and high-performance software and solutions
- Demonstrated expertise in building and developing strong software talent
- Ability to build strong software capabilities in the design, development and especially in verification & validation strategies.
- Drive productivity improvements in software development and Test and establish software best practices
- Ability to help establish software metrics & recommend the processes for measurement and improvement
- Experience in the areas of design for lean six sigma, Quality through design and Systems Engineering
- Knowledgeable in IEC standards such as 60601, 62304, HL7, FHIR and ISO 11073 is a plus
- Good understanding of the architecture trends and emerging technologies
- Ability to contribute to the development of product and technology roadmaps and strategy
- Demonstrated expertise in delivering to the commitments and to the expectations of the business units
- Demonstrated experience in excellent communication and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations;
- Must possess managerial courage; must be confident managing risks and making decisions that will likely have a large impact on the organizational objectives
- Good financial acumen; strong mathematical and financial capabilities
- Eight Core Competencies: Intellectual Horsepower, Technical Ability, Team Building, Identifying and Developing Talent, Dealing with Ambiguity/Change, Manage Diverse Relationships, Organizational Ability, Comfort Around Higher Management.
- Up to 15 % travel internationally and domestic.
- Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
- Develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.
- Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.
- Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
- Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
- Critical experience in people management
- Critical experience in leading Agile transformation
- Critical experience in software technology (Web, Application, Mobile & Cloud)
- Experience in leading product development and testing strategies
- Experience in project management
- Exposure in DevOps, cybersecurity
Principal Working Relationship
- Ability to collaborate with the global engineering teams in the development and implementation of enterprise software applications that includes libraries, frameworks, testing platforms and services, and deployment methods that can help build vertical solutions for various business needs.
- Ability to mentor and coach a strong technical team to maximize their potential