About this opportunity
Stryker Corporation lists this Associate Manager, Software Engineering opportunity in portage, Michigan. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Work Flexibility
Hybrid
Join a leadership team focused on advancing software quality, verification, and test excellence across a portfolio of regulated products. In this role, you will lead software test strategy, team development, and execution oversight while partnering across engineering, quality, regulatory, and program functions to support the delivery of compliant, high-quality software solutions. This position combines people leadership, technical oversight, and operational execution in a dynamic product development environment.
What You Will Do
Lead software test and verification activities across a product portfolio, establishing priorities, execution plans, and quality objectives.
Build, develop, and grow a high-performing software test organization through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and talent development.
Define and implement software test strategies, automation approaches, test infrastructure improvements, and quality metrics.
Provide technical leadership for software testing, verification, validation, automation, and release-readiness activities.
Guide teams in developing risk-based test strategies, test coverage approaches, and quality objectives aligned with product requirements.
Oversee defect management, root-cause analysis, and quality-driven decision making to support product quality and compliance.
Partner with Software Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and program teams to align testing activities with project objectives and timelines.
Ensure software testing activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, quality systems, design controls, verification standards, and objective evidence expectations.
What You Will Need
Required Qualifications: Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or applicable technical field.
6+ years applicable experience, with 0+ years direct people management experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in software test engineering, verification and validation, test automation, defect management, traceability, and regulated product development.
Experience developing or leading software test strategies for complex embedded, connected, or regulated products.
Experience using test metrics, defect trends, coverage analysis, and release-readiness criteria to communicate quality status and support decision making.
Experience executing talent management and team development strategies.
Experience leading software test programs and delivering verification milestones, quality objectives, and project deliverables.
Experience communicating software test plans, quality risks, defect trends, and technical information to cross-functional stakeholders.
$102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual Travel Percentage: 10%
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better.
We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.
We are proud to be named one of the World's Best Workplaces!
Work Flexibility
Remote - Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.
Field-based - You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.
Onsite - Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.
Hybrid - You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.
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Worksite address
portage, MI, 49002, US
Who can apply
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