Software Design Assurance Quality Engineer

Job Title Software Design Assurance Quality Engineer Job Description Job Title : Software Design Assurance Quality Engineer Job Responsibilities: • Facilitates the development, maintenance, and management of comprehensive software quality documentation, including Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), ensuring they are accurate, up-to-date, and fully compliant with relevant standards and regulatory requirements throughout the software lifecycle, working under limited supervision. • Leads the assessment of software designs, including reviewing test and performance data, to ensure they meet quality, safety, and regulatory standards, while identifying and addressing quality engineering deficiencies to embed quality within the design. • Conducts in-depth root cause analysis for software quality issues, employing problem-solving techniques to resolve deficiencies and improve software design processes, ensuring that quality is integral to the development process. • Validates key software design inputs such as usability, reliability, performance, localizability, safety, privacy, and cost to ensure they meet customer and regulatory requirements, supporting the delivery of high-quality software products. • Provides effective oversight of the execution of software quality plans and associated risk management activities throughout the software lifecycle, ensuring that all design-related activities are managed according to defined processes. • Utilizes post-market analytics and statistics to monitor software performance in the field, providing feedback to manufacturing, suppliers, and design teams, while initiating corrective actions or field actions when required to maintain software quality. • Ensures the development of comprehensive Software Quality Plans that cover all stages of the software lifecycle, from design through to post-market, supporting the design of these plans and ensuring adherence to quality and regulatory standards. • Possesses and applies working knowledge of relevant global regulations, requirements, and standards, ensuring that all quality activities and software design processes comply with applicable regulatory requirements, facilitating compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. • Acts as a subject matter expert, providing guidance to meet schedules, resolve technical problems, and manage performance requirements, including mentoring on quality engineering practices, regulatory compliance, and QMS processes. • Monitors, and reports on key software quality metrics, ensuring these metrics are aligned with business objectives and regulatory expectations, while communicating quality-related performance indicators to relevant stakeholders. • Helps to identify opportunities for process improvements within software quality engineering, advocating for and implementing best practices, tools, and innovative methodologies to enhance software quality and regulatory compliance. Minimum required Education: Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications or equivalent. Minimum required Experience: Minimum 6-7 years of experience with Bachelor's/Master's degree in areas such as Software Quality Engineering or equivalent Preferred Skills: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - mandatory Defect Management - mandatory Design for Quality (DFQ) - mandatory Design Quality Management Cloud experience preferrable Health IT experience Data Analysis & Interpretation Root Cause Analysis (RCA) CAPA Methodologies Regulatory Requirements Privacy, Safety and Security Risk Assessment Technical Documentation Continuous Improvement Product Quality and Reliability Design Verification Planning Design Validation Planning Product Test Design How we work together: We believe that we are better together than a part. For our Office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an Office role . About Philips: We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality. healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others. Learn more about our business . Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose. Learn more about our culture.