# Kristina Carucci

> Medtronic | Surgical Robotics

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kristinacarucci

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Test Engineer @ Medtronic
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Test Engineer @ Medtronic
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
- Onboarded and lead a small team of new members through critical deliverables during transitional periods, enabling 100% on-time completion without mistakes for three different simultaneous releases. While doing so, I also mentored one of the new members to successfully and effectively lead her own team of newcomers through company-specific activities shortly thereafter.

- Regularly provided technical training to engineers across disciplines, fostering cross-functional expertise and supporting vertical team goals.

- Designed and Implemented strategies for high-confidence software delivery through automated tests, increasing regression coverage from 11% to 74% in about three months.

- Proposed and implemented a new robust requirement linking strategy mitigating coverage gaps and gaining stakeholder acceptance.

- Co-launched the Pride ERG, advocating for gender-inclusive community and supporting Intersectional initiatives

- Successfully advocated for hiring talented colleagues from previous companies, contributing to team strength and innovation.

- Leveraged Al tools to gather and organize data, regularly creating detailed spreadsheets that provide valuable insights and streamline decision-making for leads and stakeholders.

### Perception Software - Test Engineer @ Realtime Robotics, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
• Drove any and all QA test development, planning, and execution (manual, automated via Python, PyTest) for the product RapidSense from inception as sole QA member on the product 
• Used Jira (w/ X-Ray) to successfully design and maintain test sets/cases, dashboards, traceability matrix in order to validate novel imaging algorithms in early stage development
• Worked with product owners to assess feasibility when defining product requirements
• Captured, curated, organized, and maintained data used for regression tests 
• Assisted developers in root causing bugs by providing well organized bug tickets with highly targeted data and logs. 
• Occasionally fixed very minor bugs (C++)
• Designed and implemented fault injection strategy to be used with HWIL scripts tailored to proprietary software (Python, XML, proprietary software)

### Computer Vision QA Engineer @ solo sciences inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston
- Designed tests to measure efficacy of detecting and interpreting cell phone imagery.
- Collaboratively developed, implemented, and tested a variety of computer vision algorithms.
- Analyzed large amounts of app timing data and communicated results to developers to pinpoint areas of concern and potential performance improvements.
- Collected and curated image datasets for algorithm testing and improvement.

### Field Application + Test Engineer @ Scalable Display Technologies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- Contributed to software product development.
- Evaluated software quality, especially relating to color calibration.
- Worked directly with clients to diagnose complex system performance issues.
- Created internal documentation on relevant color science topics like color spaces, screen characterization, and measurement techniques.

### Light Field Researcher @ Lytro
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Rochester, New York Area
- Contributed to light field research in a contractor role.
- Worked to characterize lenses without knowledge of lens prescription through image analysis.
- Provided evaluation of computational lens algorithm built to simulate aberrations and distortions.

### Calibration/Image AnalysisIntern @ Lytro
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California
- Performed image quality analysis to measure MTF.
- Processed images for noise content and produced a client-facing tool that utilized inputs to find the camera’s dynamic range (HDR).
- Performed LiDAR calibration

### Research Assistant @ Rochester Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Aided with research funded by DARPA in imaging forensics


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Imaging Science, Motion Picture Science
Rochester Institute of Technology

### High School
Massapequa High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kristina-carucci-611ba7110

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Last updated: 2026-03-31