The Position 

As part of the R&D team, the Software Test Specialist will support software and system verification and validation activities across multiple product teams. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, with a focus on executing testing activities throughout development sprints to ensure new features, integrations, and defect fixes meet quality, performance, usability, and regulatory requirements before release. 

You will work closely with software, hardware, systems, and product teams in a small, cross-functional environment where your work directly contributes to technologies designed to improve surgical outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone who: 

• Enjoys hands-on software and system testing in a highly collaborative product development environment. 
• Is comfortable working across both Agile sprint testing and formal verification and validation activities. 
• Brings strong attention to detail and takes pride in creating clear, traceable, audit-ready documentation. 
• Is motivated by work that directly contributes to innovative medical technology and improved patient outcomes. 

What You Will Do: 

Agile Development and Software Testing 

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives 
• Perform day-to-day software testing activities throughout the sprint, including functional, integration, regression, exploratory and usability testing 
• Identify, reproduce, document and track defects through resolution 
• Review and update test cases to ensure alignment with evolving requirements and product designs. 
• Contribute to test planning and risk assessments to ensure appropriate test coverage within sprint timelines 

System Verification and Validation 

• Develop, execute and maintain verification and validation test plans, protocols and reports 
• Verify that product requirements are complete, testable and traceable throughout the product development lifecycle 
• Design and execute test cases covering functional, integration, usability, performance, reliability and regression testing 
• Participate in requirement reviews, risk analyses, and design reviews  
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and application of development and testing processes, tools and best practices 

Cross Functional Product Support 

• Support concurrent product development projects and releases 
• Collaborate with software, hardware, systems and product teams to define verification strategies and acceptance criteria 
• Assist development teams with root cause investigations, troubleshooting and defect resolution 
• Balance hands-on sprint testing with longer-term verification and validation activities 

Medical Device Compliance and Documentation 

• Generate and maintain design history file documentation in accordance with quality management system requirements 
• Ensure testing activities comply with applicable medical device regulations, standards, and internal procedures. 
• Support design control activities, including requirements traceability, design verification and validation, risk management, change control 
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