Software Quality Engineering Manager

Terumo BCT, Inc.•Denver, CO

2d•$129,100 - $161,400•Hybrid

About The Position

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. The SQE Manager owns the implementation of test strategy and ensures that all test design aligns to risk, requirements, and regulatory expectations. This role maintains strong partnership with Software Development, Systems Engineering, DevOps, and global teams to ensure quality is embedded early in the lifecycle and sustained through continuous verification and feedback. A critical focus of this role is enforcing disciplined processes, ensuring high-quality, repeatable, and traceable test design, and driving alignment to the global SQE operating model. The SQE Manager plays a key role in coaching and developing SQE capability while ensuring consistent execution of quality practices across projects and sites.

Requirements

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.
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.
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
An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Experience in regulated environments (e.g., medical devices, aerospace) preferred.

Responsibilities

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.
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.