Senior MedTech Software Quality Engineer (Onsite)

Medtronic plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in the United Kingdom is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to join the surgical operating unit within the new product development quality team. You will support software quality activities across the full lifecycle to ensure safe, effective, and compliant medical software.

Collaborate with software, systems, regulatory and quality teams to drive design quality, risk management, verification and validation, and documentation quality, with a focus on audits and process improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in software quality, software development, verification and validation, or a related engineering/quality role.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle activities.
• Understanding of design controls, requirements traceability, verification and validation, and risk management.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills and ability to work across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver work on time.

Responsibilities

• Support software quality activities across the full lifecycle, from requirements and design through verification, validation, release, and post-market support.
• Collaborate with project and development teams to ensure compliance with company procedures, applicable standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide early quality input on software requirements, architecture, algorithms, code, and technical design reviews.
• Review requirements, design outputs, test cases/results, and traceability documentation for completeness, clarity, and compliance.
• Support software risk management activities, including SFMEA, hazard analysis, risk mitigation, and verification.
• Support verification and validation planning, execution, documentation, defect investigations, root cause analysis, and CAPA activities.
• Contribute to software configuration management, change control, release readiness, and documentation consistency.
• Support internal/external audits and regulatory readiness while monitoring software quality metrics and driving process improvements.
• Provide quality input on reliability, cybersecurity, usability, and other software quality considerations throughout development.

Skills

Software quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Science, or a related technical field

Job description

Medtronic plc in the United Kingdom is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to join the surgical operating unit within the new product development quality team. You will support software quality activities across the full lifecycle to ensure safe, effective, and compliant medical software.

Collaborate with software, systems, regulatory and quality teams to drive design quality, risk management, verification and validation, and documentation quality, with a focus on audits and process improvement.