Software Quality Engineering Manager

At Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, our 8,000+ global associates work daily to impact patient lives worldwide. We make medical devices and related products used to collect, separate, manufacture, and process blood and cell components.

Date: Jul 16, 2026
Location: Lakewood, CO, US
Requisition : 35241

The Software Quality Engineering (SQE) Manager leads a team of SQEs, ensuring secure, compliant, and high‑quality software across new product development and sustaining products. This role implements test strategy, partners with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Dev Ops, and global teams, and actively participates in test design and quality engineering activities.

• Lead and manage a team of SQEs, providing coaching, performance management, and professional development.
• Contribute directly to test design, review, and quality engineering activities across active projects.
• Ensure test cases are defined, reviewed, and approved in alignment with test strategy, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and oversee 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 Dev Ops 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.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent. Alternative qualifications may be considered.

Experience: Minimum 8 years in a software quality engineering role with proven understanding of all phases of the development lifecycle. Experience in regulated environments such as medical devices or aerospace is preferred.

• 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 Dev Ops.
• 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…