Software Quality Engineering Manager

Job Summary

The Software Quality Engineering (SQE) Manager is a key leader within the Software Quality Engineering organization responsible for ensuring the delivery of secure, compliant, and high-quality software across both new product development and sustaining products. This role leads a team of SQEs while actively contributing as a hands-on engineer, driving the execution and continuous improvement of a modern, shift-left, and continuous quality engineering model.

Essential Duties

• Lead and manage a team of SQEs, providing coaching, performance management, and professional development to build a high-performing organization.
• Execute as a working manager by contributing directly to test design, review, and quality engineering activities across active projects.
• Ensure test cases are defined, reviewed, and approved in alignment with overall test strategy, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and oversee the creation of high-quality test cases for both manual and automated testing, ensuring appropriate coverage and traceability.
• Determine and guide which test cases should be automated versus remain manual, based on risk, repeatability, efficiency, and overall value.
• Drive development of comprehensive, repeatable, and traceable test cases that fully cover product requirements and risk controls.
• Enforce adherence to defined SQE processes, quality gates, and lifecycle expectations to prevent defect escape and reduce rework.
• Partner with Software Development, Systems Engineering, and DevOps to embed shift-left practices and continuous testing into development workflows.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to ensure testability, early quality validation, and alignment with system requirements.
• Support and operationalize cybersecurity and performance testing strategies within project execution and test design.
• Review test execution results and ensure accuracy, completeness, and appropriate defect identification.
• Drive continuous improvement of SQE processes, tools, and practices based on project insights, metrics, and feedback.
• Ensure global consistency in test practices, enabling test cases to be executed reliably across distributed teams with defined baseline knowledge.
• Reinforce alignment to the SQE ownership model, ensuring test strategy remains SQE-driven and automation execution aligns with defined test cases.

Other Duties And Responsibilities

• Support the Senior SQE Manager in defining and evolving global SQE strategy, processes, and standards.
• Promote adoption of standard methodologies, tools, and best practices across teams and sites.
• Provide input to organizational capability development, training, and upskilling initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with medical device regulatory standards through strong documentation, traceability, and verification practices.

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 experience. Experience in a software quality engineering role with proven understanding of all phases of the development lifecycle including scoping, design, construction, integration and testing. Experience in regulated environments (e.g., medical devices, aerospace) preferred.
• Skills: Strong expertise in test strategy development, risk-based testing, and requirements coverage. Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and shift-left quality practices. Ability to design and evaluate high-quality, repeatable, and traceable test cases. Experience with software quality standards, regulatory compliance, and traceability expectations. Strong collaboration skills across Software Development, Systems Engineering, and DevOps. Knowledge of automation frameworks and understanding of SDET integration into test strategy. Familiarity with AI-assisted development and modern quality engineering tools. Ability to enforce disciplined processes, quality gates, and execution consistency. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis and defect evaluation. Effective communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams. Experience working in global, distributed team environments. Commitment to continuous improvement, learning, and adoption of evolving engineering practices - Or - An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.

Physical Requirements

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.

Target Pay Range

$129,100.00 to $161,400.00 - 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

15.0%