Software Design Quality Engineer - Ultrasound

Job Title

Software Design Quality Engineer - Ultrasound

Job Description

Job Title : Software Design Quality Engineer - Ultrasound

Job Responsibilities:

• Participates in the development and maintenance of comprehensive software quality documentation, including Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), ensuring they are accurate, up-to-date, and fully compliant with relevant standards and regulatory requirements throughout the software lifecycle, working under general supervision.
• Executes the assessment of software designs, including reviewing test and performance data, to ensure they meet quality, safety, and regulatory standards, while identifying and addressing quality engineering deficiencies to embed quality within the design.
• Conducts in-depth root cause analysis for software quality issues, employing problem-solving techniques to resolve deficiencies and improve software design processes, ensuring that quality is integral to the development process.
• Guides validation of key software design inputs such as usability, reliability, performance, localizability, safety, privacy, and cost to ensure they meet customer and regulatory requirements, supporting the delivery of high-quality software products.
• Ensures effective oversight of the execution of software quality plans and associated risk management activities throughout the software lifecycle, ensuring that all design-related activities are managed according to defined processes.
• Utilizes post-market analytics and statistics to monitor software performance in the field, providing feedback to manufacturing, suppliers, and design teams, while initiating corrective actions or field actions when required to maintain software quality.
• Participates in the development of comprehensive Software Quality Plans that cover all stages of the software lifecycle, from design through to post-market, supporting the design of these plans and ensuring adherence to quality and regulatory standards.
• Possesses and applies working knowledge of relevant global regulations, requirements, and standards, ensuring that all quality activities and software design processes comply with applicable regulatory requirements, facilitating compliance throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Provides guidance to meet schedules, resolve technical problems, and manage performance requirements, including mentoring on quality engineering practices, regulatory compliance, and QMS processes.
• Reports key software quality metrics, ensuring these metrics are aligned with business objectives and regulatory expectations, while communicating quality-related performance indicators to relevant stakeholders.

Minimum required Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications

Minimum required Experience:
5-7 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, Software R&D, Software Testing

Preferred Education:
Computer science, computer or electrical engineering

Preferred Experience:
5-8 years of medical device quality or R&D experience

Preferred Certification:
ISTQB certification

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with IEC 62304/82304 standards mandatory
• Cyber security
• Artificial intelligence
• Design Quality Management
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Design for Quality (DFQ)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• CAPA Methodologies
• Regulatory Requirements
• Privacy, Safety and Security Risk Assessment
• Technical Documentation
• Continuous Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Product Quality and Reliability
• Defect Management
• Design Verification Planning
• Design Validation Planning
• Product Test Design

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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