Software Quality Engineer, Cybersecurity Compliance

Abbott; Westford (MA); On-site; USD 61,300 - 122,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefits

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Software Quality Engineer in the Vascular division based at Westford, MA. This onsite role focuses on software quality and cybersecurity compliance for medical device products, requiring collaboration with Product Development, Quality, and Cybersecurity teams.

You will review security alerts, track risk mitigation, and maintain quality documentation while ensuring adherence to design controls and regulatory standards. Abbott offers extensive development and benefit programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required.
• Experience in software quality engineering for medical/regulated products.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity quality/compliance activities.

Responsibilities

• Support software quality and cybersecurity compliance activities for medical device software.
• Ensure design controls, regulatory standards, and quality processes are followed.
• Collaborate with Product Development, Quality, and Cybersecurity teams to maintain documentation.

Skills

Software quality

Cybersecurity

Agile SDLC

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life‑changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Title

Software Quality Engineer, Cybersecurity Compliance

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit – an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works at our Westford, MA location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost‑effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

This role is fully onsite.

What You’ll Work On

You will support software quality and cybersecurity compliance activities for medical device products by reviewing security alerts, tracking risk mitigation activities, and maintaining required quality documentation. Working closely with Product Development, Quality, and Cybersecurity teams, you will help ensure compliance with design controls, regulatory standards, and company quality processes.

Main Responsibilities

• Support Quality Engineering deliverables throughout the product lifecycle, including ownership of risk management activities, including cybersecurity risk management.
• Support on‑time execution of Quality Plans.
• Guide development and documentation of standard operating procedures, specifications and test procedures.
• Support product recertifications.
• Review and document outputs from cybersecurity threat model analyses conducted by the Cybersecurity team, ensuring traceability and compliance with quality and design control requirements.
• Review, track, document, and facilitate resolution of product vulnerability notifications and cybersecurity alerts provided by the Cybersecurity team.
• CAPA management – including performing thorough investigations with detailed root‑cause analyses (Fishbone, 5 Why), implementing corrections, corrective actions, creating and monitoring effectiveness criteria.
• Work within Agile software development lifecycle framework.
• Support usability and human factors engineering reviews.
• Coach and mentor team members on best practices in design quality, and overall product lifecycle testing/quality engineering to establish product and system reliability. Accent on agile testing and automated testing practices.
• Participate in reviews for System and Software requirements, Software and Firmware design, and code inspection.
• Review and approve test methods, protocols and test results provided by another functional group.
• Support activities related to software change management and overall change management.
• Bring forth ideas supporting continuous improvement and implement quality initiatives that measurably enhance medical device software and cybersecurity lifecycle activities.
• Support all activities, as needed by the business within the software development lifecycle.
• Ensure DHF content completion, integrity, and regulatory & standards compliance; collaboratively communicating & resolving gaps.
• Support internal & external audit and related responses.
• Support the establishment of objective, measurable and verifiable customer and product requirements.
• Complete document Change Request reviews in a timely and objective manner.
• Additional duties may be identified by functional management based on the current project/business objectives.
• Perform external standard and regulation assessments. Identify quality system gaps if any and create resolution and implementation plans, tracking progress to closure.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems, Environmental Management Systems, and other regulatory requirements.
• Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintain positive, cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned.

Required Experience

• Bachelor level degree in Computer science, biomedical engineering, software engineering or a closely related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience in software quality engineering, design quality, medical device quality systems, software validation, or cybersecurity quality/compliance activities.
• Experience in Design Controls for Class II medical device.
• Experience ensuring automation frameworks and scripts meet design control requirements.
• Experience with software configuration, issue tracking tools and requirements tools such as Jira and Jama.
• Experience as team‑member/lead in Agile SDLC projects/programs.
• Deep knowledge of various types of SDLC’s (V‑Model, Iterative, Agile/Scrum, etc.).
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross‑site business unit model.
• Working knowledge of GMP, 21 CFR part 820, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, and ISO 13485.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast‑paced, changing environment.
• Ability to work in a lab, and hands‑on experience with medical device development.
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines in a timely manner.
• Strong organizational and follow‑up skills, as well as attention to detail.

Preferred Experience

• Master’s level degree preferred.
• ASQ CSQE and ISTQB certifications desired.
• Experience working with test management tools such as TestComplete.
• Experience in code review/static analysis tools such as Coverity.
• Programming experience in C/C#/Visual Studio/Java, scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl.
• Clinical/Hospital experience.
• Experience in software testing and verification/validation, including lead experience.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.