Software Quality Engineer (SQE)

Job Summary

The Software Quality Engineer (SQE) is responsible for ensuring the delivery of secure, compliant, and high-quality software across both new product development and sustaining products. This role operates within a modern Software Quality Engineering model, grounded in shift-left and continuous quality principles, with a strong focus on early defect prevention, robust verification, and full lifecycle traceability.

Essential Duties

• Define test strategy and coverage by determining what to test based on risk, system behavior, product requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive, repeatable, and traceable test cases aligned to requirements and risk.
• Design high-quality test cases by defining manual and automation-ready approaches, ensuring appropriate coverage, providing clear test steps, and providing implementation instructions for SDETs.
• Evaluate and determine which test cases should be automated versus manual based on risk, repeatability, efficiency, and overall value.
• Partner with SDETs to ensure automated test implementation aligns with defined test cases, coverage, and overall quality engineering strategy.
• Review and approve test cases to ensure consistency, completeness, and repeatability across global execution teams.
• Evaluate and review test execution results, including outputs from global execution teams, and ensure accurate interpretation of results.
• Investigate test failures, determine root cause (test vs software defect), and document defects appropriately.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from requirements and risk controls through test cases, execution, and verification results.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of SQE processes, tools, and practices.
• Support cybersecurity and performance testing efforts through test design and execution.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements through proper documentation, traceability, and verification practices.
• Collaborate with global teams to ensure test cases are executable with a defined baseline level of product knowledge.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered.
• Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, software test, or a related role. Experience in regulated environments (e.g., medical device, aerospace) preferred.
• Skills: Strong expertise in test case design, including manual and automated test development; Ability to determine appropriate test approach (manual vs automated) based on risk and value; Deep understanding of risk-based testing and requirements coverage; Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle and shift-left quality practices; Experience with traceability and regulatory compliance requirements; Ability to create clear, repeatable, and globally executable test cases; Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis; Experience collaborating with SDETs and understanding automation frameworks; Familiarity with AI-assisted tools and modern quality engineering practices; Strong communication skills and ability to work across cross-functional teams; Experience working in global, distributed team environments; Commitment to continuous learning, improvement, and adoption of best practices - Or - An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.

Physical Requirements

This is a hybrid position reporting to the Lakewood, CO headquarters a minimum of 3 days a week. Typical Office Environment requirements include reading, speaking, hearing, close vision, walking, bending, sitting, and occasional lifting up to 20 pounds. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Target Pay Range

$127,300.00 to $159,100.00 - Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data

Target Bonus on Base

10.0%