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Software Quality Assurance Engineer

SIRE Life Sciences®

Netherlands, zagranica

SIRE Life Sciences®

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Netherlands

SIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!

THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional Medical Devices organization, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Software Quality Assurance Engineer role is a vital organizational component ensuring regulated automated tools used in the Quality System are appropriately validated and controlled through their life cycle from development, deployment, change control and retirement. This includes ensuring project teams adhere to processes and control mechanisms for software, hardware, data and relevant security to meet regulatory requirements.
This role provides subject matter expertise with respect to the compliance and control of regulated tools used in the Quality Systems. The scope of this role extends from PH Q&R specific tools to those tools controlled by the PH business units that have implications in their respective quality systems. Support in this manner is determined by organizational demand and location of the tool with regards to the particular quality system(s) it is supporting.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Enforce policies and procedures for System Development Lifecycle Management control for use across all automated processes that drive, interface with, and provide data for the Quality System.
- Support development of the validation strategy and the validation effort from planning to retirement of Quality relevant system and tools including interfaces to and from the system.
- Support regulatory and internal audits. Provide subject matter expertise during regulatory and partner inspection.
- Provide software quality assurance support in design and development of software solutions, and facilitate the application of controls and risk management by reviewing and approving IT change-control requests submitted by cross-functional project teams to assess potential quality system impact.
- Ensure that system development projects and changes to existing systems are conducted in compliance with the FDA Quality System Regulation and Medical Device Directives.
- Work alongside other validation professionals to gather data, plan activities and obtain reviews and approvals of documentation including approving documentation with respect to software development lifecycle policies and procedures.
- Assist in developing user, functional and technical requirements for IT systems.
- Provide guidance and support to personnel in their validation efforts, to ensure compliance.
- Provide GxP-related quality assurance oversight, with an emphasis on software validation.
- Track system life cycle deliverables and activities to ensure that regulations, protocols, procedures, and methodologies are followed, and that appropriate and complete documentation is captured and reported to support validation activities.
- Represent Quality & Regulatory Compliance and Control on cross-functional teams in support of SDLM activities.
- Advise technical personnel and management on regulatory compliance and interpretation and recommend appropriate corrective actions where needed.

REQUIREMENTS

- Minimum of 7-10 years experience in validation of computer systems and systems security and control including supervision of a technical professional staff.
- Experience working in disciplined regulated industry in the application of automated technology particularly 21 CFR, ISO 13485, GAMP 5.
- Minimum of 7 computerized systems implementations, comprised of multiple application types, in a regulated environment.
- Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate (both oral and written) with junior project team / organizational members, business leaders and senior executives.
- Expertise in IT protocols related to software / hardware validation, information security, data lifecycle management.
- Understanding of current inspectional practices of FDA, notified bodies and other regulatory agencies including previous interface with such bodies during regulatory assessments or inspections.
- Ability to apply current inspectional techniques to project documentation during the system lifecycle and prior to FDA inspection to ensure a comprehensive documentation package is created and maintained.
- Effective judgement and decision making skills, typically made under stressful situations.
- Competency in project management and the execution of multiple projects.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Mitchell Jonk.

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