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Philips

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Posted Mar 17, 2020
Project ID: PHILJP00021615
Location
Eindhoven, Noord Brabant
Hours/week
40 hrs/week
Timeline
8 months
Starts: Apr 20, 2020
Ends: Dec 31, 2020
Payrate range
52 - 78 €/hr

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.


Your Responsibilities

  • In this role as Software Quality Assurance Engineer you will be responsible for the following:
  • Enforce policies and procedures for System Development Lifecycle Management control for use in Philips 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 systems and tools including interfaces to and from the system.
  • Must have 3+ years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Must have experience in SAP consolidation and Deployment across major world geographic areas as it relates to SQA role and responsibilities.
  • Must have 2+ experience in SAP validation planning, executing and maintaining an application in a validated state efficiently.
  • Must have experience in validating and maintaining a set of applications on an ERP backbone in a validated state, using SolMan (and ChaRM) for Change Control Management and Validation Deliverables.
  • Good communication skills in a must, and ability to describe validation requirements clearly, concisely and in a convincing manner.
  • 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.

We are looking for

  • Must have 3+ years experience in validation of computer systems and systems security and control
  • Experience working in disciplined regulated industry in the application of automated technology particularly 21 CFR, ISO 13485, GAMP 5
  • Must have experience in maintaining an application in a validated state efficiently
  • 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
  • Experience with evaluation of a vendor's SaaS validation and determining the validation strategy required to be compliant when implementing Off the Shelf software
  • 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 judgment and decision making skills, typically made under stressful situations
  • Good communication skills is a must and ability to describe validation requirements clearly, concisely and in a convincing manner
  • Competency in project management and the execution of multiple projects

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