Lead Verification Engineer

San Diego, CA

About Us:

At Globus Medical, we move with a sense of urgency to deliver innovations that improve the quality of life of patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Our team is inspired by the needs of these patients, and the surgeons and healthcare providers who treat them. We embrace a culture of exceptional response by partnering with researchers and educators to transform clinical insights into tangible solutions. Our solutions improve the techniques and outcomes of surgery so patients can resume their lives as quickly as possible. 

Position Summary:

 You will be joining Globus Medical, committed to providing innovative technologies and industry-leading clinical support to help surgeons and healthcare providers deliver better care around the globe. Globus has one of the most comprehensive offerings of musculoskeletal procedural solutions and enabling technologies to impact the care continuum. You will be responsible for leading the test team on NPI development for the neuromonitoring business. You are a key player in establishing the test process and best practices to address the business and compliance needs. You will also manage the project master schedule and deliverables following the design control process. 

Essential Functions:

  • Implements and monitors structured system testing (manual and automated) strategies/methodologies
  • Guides the team on system and sub-system requirement creation & reviews processes to ensure that requirements are actionable, measurable, and testable
  •  Works with development to employ test strategies and tactics on assigned projects and ensures full execution of the strategy
  • Leads the team on NPI projects, field issue investigation, and design of experiments (DoE)
  • Is the owner of master integration plan, schedule, and deliverables
  • Drives the process of impact analysis and effort estimates.
  • Represents test team in core team meetings.
  • Maintains close interaction with cross functional teams and serves as test PoC
  • Develops, implements, and maintains test methodologies, test plans, protocols, test scripts, test reports and traceability matrices for design verification
  • Analyzes data from testing activities, interprets results in the context of existing testing data, and prepares clear and accurate technical documentation
  • Leads the effort of technical design reviews, entry criteria reviews, test execution, test report and other deliverables for formal verification
  • Leads the effort of building reusable test case framework to support positive, negative and boundary testing and avoid redundant test case development
  • Provides coaching, training, and guidance to minimize procedure errors that may result into corrections and deviations
  • Creates defects trends analysis to recognize the weaken areas of code
  • Defines and measure key progress indicators on requirement coverage, test case effectiveness, Test execution and defect identification and closure
  • Analyzes available data and identifies trends and tracks actual testing progress against the plan and ultimately provides visibility into release readiness and release quality.
  • Publishes test metrics
  • Project management skills are required, including create/maintain master project plan, be responsible for major system integration schedule and deliverables
  • Creates and maintains DHF structure
  • Adheres to the letter and spirit of the company Code of Conduct, the AdvaMed Code, MedTech Code, and all other company policies.
  • Ensures Compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules, and regulations, both in the United States and internationally, by completing introductory and annual training and maintaining knowledge of compliance as it applies to your role
  • Represents the company in a professional manner and uphold the highest standards of ethical business practices and socially responsible conduct in all interactions with other employees, customers, suppliers, and other third parties 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. 

Qualifications: 

  • Self-starter, passionate about surgical procedures and innovation. Demonstrated pattern of self‐awareness and self‐improvements
  • Experience working in cross‐functional environment with strong influence and ability to effectively work with various groups within the organization
  • Experience running the Agile way of working. Lead the effort of sprint planning, backlog grooming, system demo, etc
  • Track record of leading verification effort for NPI projects with multi-disciplinary team in regulated medical device industry. In depth knowledge on verification strategy and deliverables
  • Strong communication skills. Ability to communicate technical content to technical and non‐technical stakeholders in all levels of leadership
  • Ability to make decisions independently using sound judgement and operate with a high level of autonomy
  • Hands on lead. Take ownership and accountability. Being proactive and result driven
  • Experience interacting with Health Care Professionals
  • Project management skills of setting the goals, tracking and driving progress, publishing metrics and making trade off decisions is required
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related Engineering field
  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent experience
  • Previous experience leading and coaching a high performing test team
  • Experience leading verification effort in medical device industry, regulated by FDA
  • Experience managing master project schedule using .mpp. Optimize resource & schedule with multi-disciplinary SMEs
  • Experience with complex mechanical design (spine or orthopedics) and/or emerging technologies is a plus

Our Values:

Our Life Moves Us philosophy is built on four values: Passionate About Innovation, Customer Focused, Teamwork, and Driven.

  • Passionate about Innovation: Improving patient care by delivering advanced technology to our customers is at the core of what we do. We are passionate in our role in improving the lives of patients by continuously developing better solutions
  • Customer Focused: We listen to our customers’ needs and respond with a sense of urgency
  • Teamwork: Working together, anything is possible. We value every person on our team and treat each other with respect. We are accountable to one another and support each other. Together, we make each other stronger
  • Driven: We pursue our mission with energy and passion. We are nimble, results-oriented and decisive. We overcome obstacles that arise in our quest to deliver solutions that will improve the lives of our customers and patients. 

Physical Demands:

The physical demands listed here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

  • Required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
  • Required to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

Required to possess specific visons abilities, including: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and capacity to adjust focus.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Globus Medical is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, national origin or citizenship. We are committed to a diverse workforce. We value all employees’ talents and support an environment that is inclusive and respectful.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

JOB CODE: 1003511