Software Test Specialist

Intellijoint Surgical • Kitchener, ON

3d • CA$70,000 - CA$83,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As part of the R&D team, the Software Test Specialist will support software and system verification and validation activities across multiple product teams. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, with a focus on executing testing activities throughout development sprints to ensure new features, integrations, and defect fixes meet quality, performance, usability, and regulatory requirements before release. You will work closely with software, hardware, systems, and product teams in a small, cross-functional environment where your work directly contributes to technologies designed to improve surgical outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional testing experience with products involving both software and hardware
• Experience testing with both Linux and macOS environments.
• Experience testing web-based and cloud-connected applications.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and product development processes
• Attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with prototyping, 3D printing, and CAD software (e.g., Solidworks, Creo, etc.)
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, interoperability and connectivity testing
• Experience with medical devices and/or knowledge of standards such as ISO 14971, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, IEC 62304, is considered a strong asset.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Perform day-to-day software testing activities throughout the sprint, including functional, integration, regression, exploratory and usability testing
• Identify, reproduce, document and track defects through resolution
• Review and update test cases to ensure alignment with evolving requirements and product designs.
• Contribute to test planning and risk assessments to ensure appropriate test coverage within sprint timelines
• Develop, execute and maintain verification and validation test plans, protocols and reports
• Verify that product requirements are complete, testable and traceable throughout the product development lifecycle
• Design and execute test cases covering functional, integration, usability, performance, reliability and regression testing
• Participate in requirement reviews, risk analyses, and design reviews
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and application of development and testing processes, tools and best practices
• Support concurrent product development projects and releases
• Collaborate with software, hardware, systems and product teams to define verification strategies and acceptance criteria
• Assist development teams with root cause investigations, troubleshooting and defect resolution
• Balance hands-on sprint testing with longer-term verification and validation activities
• Generate and maintain design history file documentation in accordance with quality management system requirements
• Ensure testing activities comply with applicable medical device regulations, standards, and internal procedures.
• Support design control activities, including requirements traceability, design verification and validation, risk management, change control

Benefits

• RRSP with employer match
• health/dental/vision package (day-1 and employer-paid premiums!)
• wellness benefit
• learning & development opportunities
• paid vacation
• personal days
• sick days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level