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Are you curious, proactive, and eager to make an impact in the medical technology and pharmaceutical research space?
Join us as one of the next two Software Quality Manual Test Analysts and help ensure the safety, quality, and reliability of breakthrough digital health solutions and clinical trial delivery systems that make a real difference to patients’ lives.

About the Role

As part of our Software Quality Assurance (SQA) team, you’ll play a key role in verifying and validating software across both Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and pharma delivery projects (clinical trials). You’ll collaborate with Software Developers, Product Managers, and Design Engineers to ensure product requirements are clearly defined and implementation of those requirements is verified and validated from compliance point of view.   

This is an exciting opportunity to grow within a small, expert team where you’ll gain hands-on experience working to medical device and pharma industry standards such as ISO 13485 and IEC 62304, while contributing to the delivery of cutting-edge healthcare innovations.

What You’ll Do

• Liaise with Software Design Engineering and Product teams to ensure requirements are documented, and understood, implemented and independently verified.
• You will be required to prepare and maintain project documentation including test plans and reports for regulatory submissions.
• This is a manual testing role, you will be required to write, review and execute test cases based on the product requirements.
• Support troubleshooting, defect triage, and root cause analysis.

What Success Looks Like

• 3 months: You’re familiar with our products, tools, and processes, contributing to test case creation and verification execution.
• 6 months: You’re confidently owning work items end-to-end — planning, executing, and reporting.
• 12 months: You’ve become the “go-to” person for verification activities.

About You

We’re looking for a quick learner who is curious, adaptable, and eager to understand complex systems. You will be proactive and responsible, and takes ownership of your work and finishes at a high standard. You are an effective communicator with ability to collaborate across teams and explain findings clearly as well as being detail-oriented, with strong logical reasoning and organisational skills. Your skills, experience and qualifications will include:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. Software Development, IT, or similar) or equivalent experience.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Strong regulatory documentation skills.

Although not essential, it owuld be desirable if you have:

• Experience writing and executing test cases or UAT scenarios.
• Experience in medical device or pharmaceutical software testing.
• Experience working on SaaS based products.
• Familiarity with ISO 13485, IEC 62304, or related quality standards.
• ISTQB Foundation certification.
• Experience using Matrix Medical, JIRA and Confluence systems.

Why Join Perspectum?

You'll have the opportunity to work across SaMD and pharma projects where your work will impact both patient care and clinical research outcomes. You will learn from experts and join a small, supportive team packed with technical knowledge. You can shape your growth by taking ownership, learn independently, and develop into a key member of the team.

This is more than just a testing role, it’s a chance to make a genuine difference in a field where quality and innovation truly matter.

Additional Information

• Hybrid working: we are open and flexible with experience so in order to give you the support and development, we’re looking for individuals who can work at least 3 days per week in our Oxford office.

About Us 

All our benefits information can be found in the downloadable Benefits document under 'Information' on the right hand side of this screen.

At Perspectum, we are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. We prioritise hiring based on merit, skills, and qualifications, valuing individuals for their unique contributions while ensuring a culture that respects and celebrates differences. If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of your application process, please let our Talent Team know