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Elekta is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to join its engineering organization. This role focuses on ensuring the quality, reliability, and compliance of software applications used in a regulated healthcare environment, supporting critical clinical workflows.
We seek your expertise to help deliver software that is reliable, safe, and user-friendly, allowing clinicians to focus on fighting cancer rather than managing technology. You will join a mission-driven team dedicated to improving, prolonging, and saving lives through high-quality software solutions.
The Software Quality Engineer works closely with Software Development Engineers, Product Management, and customer-facing teams to define quality strategies, support verification activities, and investigate software issues. This role requires a strong quality mindset, analytical skills, and clear written and verbal communication with fluency in English. Participation in the investigation and resolution of customer-reported issues is a normal part of this role.
Responsibilities:
You will define, implement, and support software quality strategies for applications used in the treatment management of cancer patients. A strong understanding of software testing principles, system architecture, and quality best practices is essential, along with the ability to stay current with trends in software engineering, test automation, and quality practices.
Specific responsibilities include:
Develop and maintain manual and automated test cases for software verification.
Participate in requirements and design reviews to identify quality risks and gaps.
Execute verification activities and analyze results to ensure software quality.
Investigate software defects and support customer escalation analysis.
Collaborate with development teams to improve testability and defect prevention.
Maintain test documentation, traceability, and verification evidence.
Support continuous improvement of quality processes, tools, and practices.
Ensure compliance with Quality Management System (QMS) requirements.
Authorities:
Define and execute test strategies within the assigned scope of responsibility.
Identify, document, and escalate quality issues, defects, and compliance risks.
Participate in defect severity evaluation and release readiness decisions.
Escalate quality, compliance, or safety concerns through established processes.
Relevant Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and practices.
Experience testing software applications, including functional and non-functional testing.
Familiarity with software development lifecycles and agile-based methodologies.
Ability to communicate effectively in spoken and written English within a global development organization.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and investigative skills.
Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
Preferred Qualifications:
Test automation using industry-standard frameworks and tools.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing practices.
Understanding of software development using languages such as C#, C++, or similar.
Familiarity with databases and SQL.
Background working in regulated, safety-critical, or quality-controlled software environments.
Experience supporting production issues, defect triage, and root cause investigations.
Knowledge of healthcare IT standards or clinical systems (e.g., DICOM/HL7/FHIR) is a plus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
- Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and practices.
- Experience testing software applications, including functional and non-functional testing.
- Ability to communicate effectively in spoken and written English within a global development organization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and investigative skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
Elekta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Elekta and has not been reviewed or approved by Elekta.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is a prominent benefit, with vesting noted as part of the plan.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and paid holidays are included, with PTO accruing from the start and rollover allowed within limits.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage are included, complemented by an Employee Assistance Program.
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What We Do
At Elekta, our outcome-driven and cost-efficient solutions provide lasting clinical difference and are developed through sustainable environmental, social and governance practices. We’ve been working openly and proactively with clinicians and our partners for almost half a century to advance precision radiation therapy and meet continuously evolving patient needs—no matter where they are in the world. To us, it's personal, and our global team of 4,700 employees combine passion, science, and imagination to profoundly change cancer care. We don’t just build technology, we build hope. Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 120 countries and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
