Head of Test & Verification, Software & Electronics

Ambu A/S; Ballerup; On-site; DKK 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global impact in healthcare

Opportunity for professional growth

Collaborative work environment

Job summary

Ambu A/S in Ballerup, Denmark is seeking a Head of Test & Verification to lead the team in enhancing test strategies for software-heavy medical device systems. The role involves defining a vision and improving operational efficiency through automation and collaboration.

The successful candidate will shape the verification department and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure regulatory compliance. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence critical developments in medical technology.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in setting verification strategy.
• Strong experience in automated testing and software development.
• Ability to work across disciplines and create alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Test & Verification department.
• Define the vision for Test & Verification.
• Increase test automation and efficiency.

Skills

Test automation

Leadership

Cross-site collaboration

Quality management

Education

Experience in medical device development

Fluent in English

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Automated test frameworks

Job description

Head of Test & Verification, Software & Electronics

Location: Ballerup, Denmark (or Augsburg, Germany) • Employment Type: Full-time • Req ID: 10291.

A role with strategic and operational impact

In this role, you will lead the Test & Verification department within Software & Electronics and shape how Ambu verifies complex, software‑heavy medical device systems. The department brings together test and verification capabilities in a newly combined function with the ambition to build a stronger, more scalable setup.

You will report directly to the Vice President, Software & Electronics and be part of the leadership team shaping the direction of software and electronics across Global R&D. In close collaboration with EndoIntelligence Solutions and key stakeholders across R&D, you will help strengthen the platform delivery engine behind Ambu’s EndoIntelligence journey.

Your mission is to set the vision and strategy for Test & Verification across Software & Electronics and build a setup that enables earlier verification, stronger automation, and greater release confidence. You will help drive a significant maturity step in how requirements, development, verification, and design control come together across the broader system, supporting a more regular and predictable release cadence while maintaining the quality and regulatory compliance required in medical device development.

You will initially lead a team of 12 skilled test and verification professionals across Ballerup, Augsburg, and Penang, requiring strong cross-site collaboration and alignment. As the function grows, you will help define the organizational setup and leadership capacity needed to support future scale.

Key responsibilities

• Set the vision and operating model for Test & Verification — Define the direction for how Test & Verification should operate across Software & Electronics and shape a setup that supports Ambu’s EndoIntelligence ambitions, platform development, and future scale.
• Shift verification earlier and support a stronger release cadence — Drive a stronger end‑to‑end approach where requirements, development, verification, and design control come together earlier in the process, reducing late surprises and enabling a more regular, predictable, high‑quality release cadence.
• Increase test automation and efficiency — Expand the use of automated testing across relevant levels of the system, including software, hardware/software integration, regression testing, and CI/CD pipelines, to enable faster learning, better scalability, and more efficient releases.
• Mature and scale the organization — Build a strong function with clear roles, the right capabilities, and effective collaboration across sites. Over time, help shape the organizational setup and leadership capacity needed to support future growth.
• Build a scalable practice in a regulated environment — Continuously improve Ambu’s verification approach within Software & Electronics, ensuring alignment with relevant regulations, standards, and Ambu’s Quality Management System while keeping the setup practical and effective.
• Collaborate broadly to improve end‑to‑end delivery — Work closely with software, electronics, systems engineering, QA, regulatory, product management, and Endoscope Systems Test & Verification to ensure verification activities are aligned with product risks, architecture, customer needs, and release plans.

What success looks like

Success in the role will come in two horizons. In the first 3–6 months, you are expected to establish a clear vision, strategy, and direction for Test & Verification in Software & Electronics. Within 6–12 months, you will have translated this into a stronger operating model, improved ways of working, and tangible progress in automation, release confidence, release rhythm, and organizational maturity.

• A clear vision, strategy, and direction for Test & Verification is established across Software & Electronics within the first 3–6 months.
• A stronger and more scalable operating model is in place across sites within 6–12 months, with clearer responsibilities, interfaces, and ways of working.
• The level of test automation is increased, and regression testing is more efficient and reliable across the platform.
• Verification is moved earlier in the development flow, with stronger release confidence through better planning, visibility, and risk‑based decision‑making.
• Verification processes and documentation are strengthened in line with Ambu’s QMS and relevant medical device standards.
• A strong team is in place, with a clear path for scaling both capabilities and leadership capacity as the function grows.

Your profile

You are an experienced test and verification leader who combines technical depth with the ability to set direction, build capability, and bring people together around a shared ambition. You lead with clarity, collaboration, and a genuine motivation to make a difference through the solutions your teams help bring to market.

• Proven experience setting test or verification strategy and building or maturing a Test & Verification, Validation, or Quality Engineering function in a complex product development environment.
• Strong experience with test automation, automated test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, release readiness, regression testing, and modern software development practices.
• The ability to work across disciplines, create alignment between development, verification, quality, and release stakeholders, and translate strategic ambitions into practical execution.
• Experience leading skilled individual contributors and shaping an organization, capabilities, and interfaces for future scale.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
• Experience from medical device development or another regulated, quality‑critical environment, including familiarity with standards and regulations such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDR, and FDA design control expectations is an advantage but not required.

Who you are

You are a technically credible and improvement‑oriented leader who brings clarity, structure, and momentum in a complex environment. At the same time, you are a people leader who creates trust, builds followership, and helps others succeed.

You see test and verification not only as a quality safeguard, but as a way to enable faster learning, better decisions, and more confident releases.

You enjoy improving how teams work across disciplines, and you are motivated by turning an existing capability into something stronger, more scalable, and more effective. You do this in a collaborative way, with respect for different perspectives and a focus on shared results.

You balance pace and pragmatism with the discipline required in regulated medical device development, and you bring the drive to lead change in a collaborative way.

A unique opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to:

• Mature and shape a newly combined Test & Verification function with significant strategic importance.
• Play a key role in strengthening the delivery engine behind Ambu’s EndoIntelligence journey.
• Build a setup that enables earlier verification, stronger automation, and a clear improvement in release predictability and rhythm.
• Work at the intersection of software, electronics, hardware, AI, and MedTech in a role with both strategic influence and technical depth.
• Influence how Ambu develops, verifies, and releases software‑enabled medical device platforms at scale – and help create solutions that make a meaningful difference for healthcare professionals and patients.

Working at Ambu

The role is based at our office in Ballerup, Denmark or Augsburg, Germany and involves approximately 15–20 travel days per year.

Ambu is a global leader in medical technology, and the position offers an opportunity to shape capabilities critical to the delivery of software‑enabled solutions that improve patient care worldwide.

At Ambu, your work matters. You will help shape capabilities that are critical to how we bring software‑enabled solutions to market and improve outcomes for healthcare professionals and patients around the world. You will join an international company with ambitious growth plans, strong professional communities, and the opportunity to make a real impact.