Job Summary And Primary Responsibilities

You will be joining Nuvasive, a leader in spine surgery, to drive the innovation and best practices on minimally disruptive surgery, and ultimately changes the lives of our patients. You will be responsible for leading the verificaton effort in test team. You are a key player to establish the test process and best practices to address the business and compliance needs.

Required Skills / Capabilities

• Implement and monitor structured system testing (manual and automated) strategies/methodologies
• Guide the team on system and sub-system requirement review process to ensure that requirements are actionable, measurable, and testable
• Work with development to employ test strategies and tactics on assigned projects and ensure full execution of the strategy
• Drive the process of impact analysis and effort estimates. Represent test team in core team meetings. Close interaction with cross functional teams and serves as test PoC
• Develop, implement, and maintain 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
• Lead the effort of technical design reviews, entry criteria reviews, test execution, test report and other deliverables for formal verification
• Lead the effort of building reusable test case framework to support positive, negative and boundary testing and avoid redundant test case development
• Provide coaching, training, and guidance to minimize procedure errors and that may result into corrections and deviations
• Create defects trends analysis to recognize the weaken areas of code
• Define and measure key progress indicators on requirement coverage, test case effectiveness, Test execution and defect identification and closure
• Analyze available data and identify trends and track actual testing progress against the plan and ultimately provide visibility into release readiness and release quality. Publish test metrics
  

Education And Experience

• 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 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
• 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
• Expereince leading verification effort in medical device industry, regulated by FDA
• Experience with complex mechanical design (spine or orthopedics) and/or emerging technologies is a plus
  

Travel And/or Physical Requirements

Salary Range: $112,500 - $187,500

For roles that require access to hospital facilities, must be eligible for and maintain credentials at all required hospitals, including meeting any applicable physical requirements or vaccination requirements (including the COVID-19 vaccine, as applicable).

NuVasive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. The “EEO is the Law” poster options are available here . NuVasive's EEO policy is available here .

About NuVasive

NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) is the leader in spine technology innovation, with a mission to transform surgery, advance care, and change lives. The Company's less-invasive, procedurally integrated surgical solutions are designed to deliver reproducible and clinically proven outcomes. The Company's comprehensive procedural portfolio includes surgical access instruments, spinal implants, fixation systems, biologics, software for surgical planning, navigation and imaging solutions, magnetically adjustable implant systems for spine and orthopedics, and intraoperative neuromonitoring technology and service offerings. With more than $1 billion in net sales, NuVasive has approximately 2,700 employees and operates in more than 50 countries serving surgeons, hospitals, and patients. For more information, please visit www.nuvasive.com .