Software Technical Program Manager (SW TPM) MedTech

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

As a Software Technical Program (SW TPM) you will be responsible for;

• Coordinate software testing activities across new product development programs including test planning execution integration testing regression testing and verification and validation.
• Develop and maintain testing schedules milestones resource plans and deliverables in collaboration with software and test engineering teams.
• Track test execution progress test coverage defects and outstanding issues to ensure timely completion of testing activities.
• Facilitate defect triage meetings prioritize issues with technical stakeholders and monitor resolution through closure and retesting.
• Identify testing bottlenecks dependencies and risks and drive mitigation plans to maintain program schedules.
• Coordinate test readiness reviews verification milestones and software release readiness assessments.
• Ensure test results requirements traceability and supporting documentation are completed in accordance with applicable development processes.

• Support software program execution throughout the new product development lifecycle from requirements definition and design through integration verification validation and product release.
• Coordinate software deliverables with hardware systems engineering product development and other cross-functional teams.
• Establish and maintain program plans schedules milestones and dependency tracking.
• Monitor progress against development objectives and proactively communicate risks issues and schedule impacts.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and drive accountability for action items and technical decisions.
• Support engineering change management and the incorporation of design changes into development and testing plans.
• Coordinate activities across development testing quality and regulatory stakeholders to ensure product readiness.

• Serve as a central point of coordination between software development test engineering systems engineering quality assurance and program leadership.
• Translate technical activities and testing progress into clear status updates for stakeholders and management.
• Manage competing priorities and resource constraints across multiple projects or development workstreams.
• Maintain program dashboards and metrics covering schedule performance test progress defect trends risks and release readiness.
• Drive issue escalation and resolution to minimize delays and improve execution efficiency.

• Coordinate testing and software development deliverables in alignment with applicable medical device quality system requirements.
• Support documentation and traceability activities associated with software requirements testing risk management and design verification.
• Work with Quality and Regulatory teams to ensure required evidence and documentation are available at key development milestones.
• Promote adherence to established software development testing change control and release processes.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical program management software project management test program management or a related engineering role.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating software testing verification validation or quality engineering activities.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and software testing methodologies.
• Experience managing schedules dependencies risks defects and cross-functional deliverables.
• Familiarity with project tracking and test management tools such as Jira Azure DevOps TestRail or similar platforms.
• Strong communication organizational problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience in medical device or other regulated product development.
• Experience supporting new product development (NPD) programs from early development through product release.
• Familiarity with software verification and validation requirements traceability integration testing regression testing and defect management.
• Knowledge of relevant medical device standards and processes such as IEC 62304 ISO 14971 and ISO 13485 as applicable.
• Experience coordinating embedded software firmware hardware/software integration or connected medical products.
• Familiarity with Agile development environments and formal product development stage-gate processes.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering or testing teams.

• On-time completion of software testing and verification milestones.
• Improved visibility into test progress defect status and release readiness.
• Effective coordination of software deliverables across new product development workstreams.
• Timely identification and resolution of testing and integration blockers.
• Completion of required testing documentation and traceability deliverables.
• Predictable execution of software development and testing schedules while maintaining quality expectations.

Salary Range: $125K-$145k

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

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Note: Due to the nature of the work only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position. - OPTIONAL

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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