Senior Quality Engineer

Medtronic; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a senior quality professional in Hyderabad to manage supplier quality and compliance. You will qualify suppliers, drive improvements, and oversee PPAP execution with cross‑functional teams to ensure robust supplier processes.

You will partner with component engineers and post‑market teams to deliver high‑quality parts and services, ensuring regulatory alignment across global operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Science; 8–12 years quality systems experience.
• Experience in supplier management and cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of GMP, ISO 13485 and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Qualify suppliers according to company standards & manage approved supplier list.
• Initiate and drive SCAPA/NCRs to suppliers not meeting standards; manage changes.
• Assess supplier performance regularly and drive continuous improvement.
• Establish processes ensuring delivery of quality parts, materials, and services.
• Lead PPAP with suppliers and ensure robust qualification/validation (IQ/OQ/PQ).
• Monitor parts from acquisition through manufacturing and resolve supplier issues.
• Auditing schedule to ensure GMP and quality standards; performance focused.
• Provide pre-market quality engineering support to NPD with cross‑functional teams.

Skills

Supplier management

Quality systems

Communication skills

Project management

Team collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Lean Six Sigma

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Science

Tools

Minitab

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Qualify suppliers according to company standards & management of approved supplier list per purchasing control compliance.
• Initiate and drives SCAPA’s/NCR’s to suppliers not performing/or adhering to company standards. Manage supplier change requests .
• Assess supplier performance on periodic basis & drive necessary action for continous improvement.
• Establish a process & ensures that suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services.
• Lead PPAP execution with supplier and ensure robust supplier process qualification/validation through IQ, OQ & PQ methodology.
• Monitors parts from acquisition through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier-related problems as they occur.
• Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices (GMP) and quality standards are met.
• Provide pre-market quality engineering support to new product development (NPD) working in partnership with the component engineering and post-market supplier quality teams, to deliver quality parts, materials, and services, prevent defects, and allow Medtronic to provide customers with the highest quality and reliable products.
• Collaborates with component engineers to develop and deliver the product acceptance sampling strategy, approved supplier list coordination, supplier owned quality deployment, PFMEA,MSA, ,control plans , Statistical process control and relevant quality tools and methodologies for new products and legacy product.
• Define Receiving Inspection requirements as required and associated test method validation for all internal Medtronic test methods.
• Conduct audits to qualify supplier’s for intended use for the business.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Science, or Technical Discipline required and Minimum of 8 to 12 years of quality systems experience. Experience in supplier management is added advantage .
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to comprehend principles of engineering, physiology and medical device use.
• Previous customer-facing and/or project management experience is a plus.
• Comfortable working with international and multi-cultural department and groups in different time zones .
• Accurate and delivers quality work, with a sense of urgency.
• Ability to work well under pressure and maintain positive, enthusiastic attitude.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment .Eagerness to learn and expand responsibilities & accountability. Nice to Haves:
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Previous experience working with global team (Aerospace, Defence, Med device, automobile preferably).
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships.
• ASQ Quality certification – CQE, CSQP, CQA.
• Working knowledge of Standard, Guidance, and Regulations.
• Hand on experience on Minitab tools .
• Exposure in auditing to FDA Quality System Regulation & ISO 13485.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).