Vocera Communications Looking for Software Test Engineer at Portage, MI  Full Time

Who We Want:

• Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
• Curious learners. Engineers who seek out cutting-edge research and information to expand and enhance their ability to develop products.
• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

What You Will Do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Conduct or design advanced prototyping and testing.
• Conduct advanced problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements.
• Conduct and design research and studies to support advanced product design.
• Translate user needs to design inputs/specifications and produce advanced component and sub-system level designs.
• Analyze and correct complex product design issues, using independent judgment.
• Independently balance design tradeoffs while designing a component of the system
• Develop and design software systems per requirements and architecture defined.
• Code development time/resource estimation to support projects.
• Generate and review the necessary documents to support the project. (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test)

Business Responsibilities:

• Advance solutions by applying in-depth knowledge of customer needs, market, and competitive offerings.
• Apply detailed knowledge of clinical procedures to author design inputs.
• Support Voice of Customer sessions internally and with clinicians
• Demonstrate developing financial acumen.

Med Device Compliance:

• Be proficient with and mentor others in usage of industry standards, including design requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations.
• Lead creation and refinement of engineering documentation, such as the Design History file
• Follow and mentor others on R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System

General Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success as a leader on the team.
• Identify and support the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology.
• Support and execute segments of complex product development to advance projects through the design /development/launch process.
• Contribute to product development from concept through release.
• Deliver high quality results with passion, energy, and drive to meet business priorities.
• Build relationships and influence across the engineering groups within the business.
• Design, develop, modify, evaluate, and verify software components for medical devices.
• In code reviews apply design principals, coding standards and best practices.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science or related discipline & 4+ years of work experience
• Programming skills with C++ or Python coding languages

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

• Knowledgeable with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software.

• Knowledgeable with integrated development environments (IDE) for projects
• Knowledge in integration and deployment processes
• Software Development Life Cycle processes
• Knowledge in creating estimates for code implementation time/resource for assigned tasks and projects.
• Knowledge from using Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability tools.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)