Associate Manager, Software Engineering

Stryker; Portage (MI); On-site; USD 103,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Financial benefits

ESPP

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a leader to advance software quality, verification, and test excellence across a regulated product portfolio. You will guide strategy, develop the team, and oversee execution while partnering with engineering, quality, regulatory, and program functions to deliver compliant, high‑quality software solutions.

This role blends people leadership, technical oversight, and operational execution in a dynamic product development environment, with broad impact across projects and

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or applicable technical field.
• 6+ years applicable experience, with 0+ years direct people management experience.
• Experience in software test engineering, verification & validation, test automation, defect management, traceability, and regulated product development.

Responsibilities

• Lead software test and verification activities across a product portfolio, establishing priorities, execution plans, and quality objectives.
• Build, develop, and grow a high-performing software test organization through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and talent development.
• Define and implement software test strategies, automation approaches, test infrastructure improvements, and quality metrics.
• Provide technical leadership for software testing, verification, validation, automation, and release-readiness activities.
• Guide teams in developing risk-based test strategies, test coverage approaches, and quality objectives aligned with product requirements.
• Oversee defect management, root-cause analysis, and quality-driven decision making to support product quality and compliance.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and program teams to align testing activities with project objectives and timelines.
• Ensure software testing activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, quality systems, design controls, verification standards, and objective evidence expectations.

Skills

Software testing

Verification & validation

Test automation

Defect management

Quality metrics

Talent development

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Job description

Join a leadership team focused on advancing software quality, verification, and test excellence across a portfolio of regulated products. In this role, you will lead software test strategy, team development, and execution oversight while partnering across engineering, quality, regulatory, and program functions to support the delivery of compliant, high-quality software solutions. This position combines people leadership, technical oversight, and operational execution in a dynamic product development environment.

What You Will Do

• Lead software test and verification activities across a product portfolio, establishing priorities, execution plans, and quality objectives.
• Build, develop, and grow a high-performing software test organization through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and talent development.
• Define and implement software test strategies, automation approaches, test infrastructure improvements, and quality metrics.
• Provide technical leadership for software testing, verification, validation, automation, and release-readiness activities.
• Guide teams in developing risk-based test strategies, test coverage approaches, and quality objectives aligned with product requirements.
• Oversee defect management, root-cause analysis, and quality-driven decision making to support product quality and compliance.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and program teams to align testing activities with project objectives and timelines.
• Ensure software testing activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, quality systems, design controls, verification standards, and objective evidence expectations.

Required Qualifications

What You Will Need

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or applicable technical field.
• 6+ years applicable experience, with 0+ years direct people management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software test engineering, verification and validation, test automation, defect management, traceability, and regulated product development.
• Experience developing or leading software test strategies for complex embedded, connected, or regulated products.
• Experience using test metrics, defect trends, coverage analysis, and release-readiness criteria to communicate quality status and support decision making.
• Experience executing talent management and team development strategies.
• Experience leading software test programs and delivering verification milestones, quality objectives, and project deliverables.
• Experience communicating software test plans, quality risks, defect trends, and technical information to cross-functional stakeholders.
• $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.