Senior Test Specialist

Job description

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. At least 10 years of software test engineering, quality engineering, or software verification and validation experience, including demonstrated technical leadership. Proven experience defining verification strategy and quality direction for complex embedded, connected, safety-critical, medical-device, or similarly regulated software products. Experience leading risk-based verification planning across unit, integration, system, regression, performance, simulator-based, and end-to-end test levels. Strong capability to evaluate requirements for completeness, clarity, testability, risk, and acceptance criteria; ability to influence requirements and verification approach before implementation begins. Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end traceability across requirements, risk controls, test plans/protocols/cases, defects, test results, release evidence, and Design History File records. Experience leading the design or evolution of automated test frameworks, CI/CD verification stages, test environments, simulator infrastructure, and quality metrics. Advanced hands-on proficiency in Python, C/C++, Bash, or comparable languages for test automation, tooling, test-environment development, diagnostic analysis, and test-data analysis. Demonstrated leadership in defect investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action verification, release-readiness decisions, and systemic quality improvement. Experience leading FMEA and hazard-analysis contributions, risk-control verification, design reviews, quality decisions, and cross-functional technical discussions. Strong experience using Jama and Jira, or equivalent ALM/traceability and issue-management platforms, to maintain complete, reviewable, audit-ready verification evidence. Proven cross-functional influence with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Quality, Product Security, Regulatory, Product Management, and program stakeholders. Demonstrated mentoring, coaching, or technical leadership of test/verification engineers. Strong communication and decision-making ability, including clear presentation of quality risks, test coverage, residual risk, readiness status, and recommended actions to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. At least 10 years of software test engineering, quality engineering, or software verification and validation experience, including demonstrated technical leadership. Proven experience defining verification strategy and quality direction for complex embedded, connected, safety-critical, medical-device, or similarly regulated software products. Experience leading risk-based verification planning across unit, integration, system, regression, performance, simulator-based, and end-to-end test levels. Strong capability to evaluate requirements for completeness, clarity, testability, risk, and acceptance criteria; ability to influence requirements and verification approach before implementation begins. Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end traceability across requirements, risk controls, test plans/protocols/cases, defects, test results, release evidence, and Design History File records. Experience leading the design or evolution of automated test frameworks, CI/CD verification stages, test environments, simulator infrastructure, and quality metrics. Advanced hands-on proficiency in Python, C/C++, Bash, or comparable languages for test automation, tooling, test-environment development, diagnostic analysis, and test-data analysis. Demonstrated leadership in defect investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action verification, release-readiness decisions, and systemic quality improvement. Experience leading FMEA and hazard-analysis contributions, risk-control verification, design reviews, quality decisions, and cross-functional technical discussions. Strong experience using Jama and Jira, or equivalent ALM/traceability and issue-management platforms, to maintain complete, reviewable, audit-ready verification evidence. Proven cross-functional influence with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Quality, Product Security, Regulatory, Product Management, and program stakeholders. Demonstrated mentoring, coaching, or technical leadership of test/verification engineers. Strong communication and decision-making ability, including clear presentation of quality risks, test coverage, residual risk, readiness status, and recommended actions to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Skill Requirements Proven experience defining verification strategy and quality direction for complex embedded, connected, safety-critical, medical-device, or similarly regulated software products. Experience leading risk-based verification planning across unit, integration, system, regression, performance, simulator-based, and end-to-end test levels. Strong capability to evaluate requirements for completeness, clarity, testability, risk, and acceptance criteria; ability to influence requirements and verification approach before implementation begins. Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end traceability across requirements, risk controls, test plans/protocols/cases, defects, test results, release evidence, and Design History File records. Experience leading the design or evolution of automated test frameworks, CI/CD verification stages, test environments, simulator infrastructure, and quality metrics. Advanced hands-on proficiency in Python, C/C++, Bash, or comparable languages for test automation, tooling, test-environment development, diagnostic analysis, and test-data analysis. Demonstrated leadership in defect investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action verification, release-readiness decisions, and systemic quality improvement. Experience leading FMEA and hazard-analysis contributions, risk-control verification, design reviews, quality decisions, and cross-functional technical discussions. Other Requirements Good to Have Direct Class II or Class III medical-device experience and practical application of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, FDA Design Controls, validation principles, FDA cybersecurity expectations, and Design History File processes. Experience leading audit, inspection, regulatory-submission support, investigation response, or verification-evidence review activities. Strong technical depth in Embedded Linux, device/board integration, networked systems, cloud-connected devices, and complex system test strategy. Leadership of software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, simulation-based test, virtual-device, hardware-test-infrastructure, or scalable lab/test-environment design. Experience verifying CAN, CAN-FD, CANopen, Ethernet, UART, SPI, I2C, and similar embedded communication protocols. Experience establishing performance, reliability, endurance, fault-injection, security, negative, recovery, and rollback testing strategies. Experience with cybersecurity verification, SBOM/vulnerability validation, secure-boot verification, signed-artifact verification, secure OTA/update testing, and threat/risk-based test planning. Experience establishing verification standards, quality metrics, automation roadmaps, reusable test frameworks, and continuous-improvement programs. Experience testing embedded HMI/user workflows, usability-related requirements, or human-factors design inputs. Nice to Have ISTQB Expert Level, CSQE, ASQ certification, or comparable quality, verification, regulatory, or test-automation credentials. Direct Jama administration/configuration, advanced traceability dashboards, evidence-report automation, or metrics-governance experience. Direct ownership of GitLab CI/CD test-platform configuration; equivalent enterprise CI/CD test-platform e