Senior Software Quality Engineer

Medtronic plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in London seeks a Software Quality Engineer to join our surgical operating unit within the new product development quality team. You will support software quality activities across the full product lifecycle to ensure safety, effectiveness, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

Collaborate with software, systems, regulatory and quality teams, contribute to risk management, verification, validation, and CAPA, and help drive design quality and process improvements onsite 3-4 days per

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3–7 years of software quality, development, verification/validation, or related engineering/quality experience.
• Experience with software lifecycle activities and design controls.

Responsibilities

• Support software quality activities across the full lifecycle from requirements to post-market support.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure compliance with procedures, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide input on requirements, architecture, design reviews, and traceability.
• Review requirements, design outputs, test cases, and documentation for completeness and compliance.
• Support risk management activities including SFMEA, hazard analysis, risk mitigation, and CAPA.
• Contribute to verification/validation planning, execution, and documentation; investigate defects and root causes.
• Contribute to configuration management, change control, release readiness, and documentation consistency.
• Support audits and regulatory readiness while monitoring software quality metrics and process improvements.
• Provide input on reliability, cybersecurity, usability, and other software quality considerations.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Regulatory understanding

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

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

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, services, and solutions, is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Quality Engineer to join our innovative team. This role will be in the surgical operating unit within the new product development quality team.

The Software Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting software quality activities throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure products are safe, effective, reliable, and compliant with applicable standards and internal procedures. This role works closely with software engineering, systems engineering, regulatory, and quality teams to drive design quality, risk management, verification and validation, documentation quality, and continuous improvement.

Primary 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 to 7 years of 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in medical device or other regulated product development environments.
• Familiarity with standards and regulations such as ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 62304, 21 CFR 820, and IEC 60601-1.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodology.
• Experience with embedded software, mobile applications, or medical device software.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity evaluations and how threats can translate to patient safety risks.
• Experience supporting audits, inspections, or regulatory submissions.

In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 3-4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.