When a five-year-old boy was blinded after a regular eye exam failed to spot a retinal detachment, his father made it his life’s work to help eye care professionals by revolutionising retinal imaging. Optomap® shows up to 82% (200°) of the retina in a single-capture, offering unrivalled clarity and Optos is proud to be recognised as the leader in this field.
To stay at the forefront of technology and offer the very best solutions to our customers, we are at the beginning of an exciting journey that will expand our product offering, cement our position as the leaders in this field and see us expand our already fantastic team.
Over the last 12 months we have made great progress in developing a new generation of products that will use cutting-edge technologies to drive our mission to transform eye care and are now looking for a Principal Systems Verification Engineer to continue the momentum, bringing your experience and ideas with you.
We would love it if you come from a medical devices, automotive or defence/aerospace background as these industries translate well to what we do and how we work.
Day-today, you can expect to be involved with automated testing, manual testing, documentation obtained from test activities, DevOps activities (with an emphasis on test), distributed network activities, virtual machine management along with Continuous Improvement/ Continuous Delivery management, following a TDD / BDD approach.
We are looking for someone who can take on a range of tasks including contributing to the Agile team’s objectives and reporting daily activities against a backdrop of stories, bugs and general tickets being actioned in the sprint.
Building tools, infrastructure and processes that enable development teams continuously to test their products
Developing, maintaining and owning continuous systems test suites – everything from unit tests to acceptance tests
Preparing verification reports and associated documents to meet comply with the regulatory requirements
Supporting the production unit for automation infrastructure set up and execution
Evaluating Systems behaviour by executing automation test suites and image characteristics analysis during environment conditions such as temperature and storage
Owning and running a testing community of practice to ensure testing best practices are applied and adopted cross-functionally
From an educational perspective, you will be degree qualified in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or have equivalent practical experience).
You are passionate about continuous improvement and thrive working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
Optos offers competitive basic salaries along with bonus and a host of benefits including enhanced holidays, flexible working, hybrid working and contributory pension. Strong integration and test professional from medical, automotive or defence/aerospace
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in programming (Ideally Python but can be any other programming language e.g. C/C++, C#, Java etc)
Experience using and developing DevOps tools and techniques
Familiar with virtual machine management tools (preferably for VMWare)
Experience with integration of one or more of Electronical/ Optical/ Mechanical Systems/Sub-systems
These are people who embrace challenges, diversity and change and who are looking for unlimited opportunities – people who believe that the most exciting thing about Optos is what we are going to do next.
You can apply for this role directly via our website or contact our recruitment partner India Smith (ismith@optos.