Validation Test Specialist

At WSA, we develop hearing solutions that help millions of people connect with the world around them. To support this mission, we conduct validation studies with hearing aid wearers and hearing care professionals to understand how our products perform in real-world use.

As a Validation Test Specialist, you will combine hands-on, participant-facing study execution with the planning and coordination required to deliver successful validation studies. You will administer study protocols, guide participants through study activities, coordinate global study operations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and study partners to ensure a professional participant experience and reliable, well-documented study delivery.

What you will do

• Plan and coordinate the day-to-day execution of validation studies involving hearing aid wearers and hearing care professionals.

• Translate study protocols and program plans into practical execution plans, including participant schedules, staffing, facilities, equipment, test materials, and other logistical requirements.

• Recruit, screen, schedule, and support study participants in accordance with the applicable study requirements and processes.

• Prepare study sites, products, equipment, and materials, ensuring that all operational prerequisites are in place before study activities begin.

• Conduct study sessions with hearing aid wearers and hearing care professionals, administering study protocols, guiding participants through planned activities, documenting observations, and ensuring that study procedures are followed consistently.

• Coordinate closely with Validation Program Managers, study partners, participating markets, and relevant technical and functional stakeholders throughout study preparation and execution.

• Maintain complete, accurate, and traceable study documentation, including participant records, study materials, execution records, data-collection documentation, and study close-out files.

• Monitor study progress, participant status, data completeness, and operational issues or risks across concurrent studies, and provide timely updates and escalations to the responsible Validation Program Manager.

• Ensure that study data are collected, handled, documented, and transferred in accordance with the applicable study processes and data-handling requirements.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of study operations, templates, working methods, participant experience, and execution quality.

What you bring

• 3-5 years of relevant experience.

• A relevant degree, professional qualification, or comparable practical experience in a field related to healthcare, audiology, life sciences, user research, or study coordination.

• Practical experience in coordinating or conducting studies, user research, clinical investigations, usability evaluations, product testing, or comparable participant-facing activities.

• Experience recruiting, scheduling, and supporting study participants, preferably in a healthcare, medical-device, consumer-electronics, or customer-research environment.

• Familiarity with structured study execution, protocol adherence, accurate data collection, and controlled documentation.

• Experience coordinating operational details across participants, internal stakeholders, external partners, facilities, products, and timelines.

• Strong written and spoken English. Additional languages are an advantage in a global study environment.

• Experience with hearing aids, audiology, hearing care workflows, medical devices, or regulated product development is an advantage, but not a prerequisite.

Personal competencies

• Highly organized and reliable, with the ability to manage detailed operational activities and several priorities without losing sight of timelines or participant needs.

• Careful and consistent in following protocols, work instructions, documentation requirements, and data-handling processes.

• Comfortable working directly with hearing aid wearers, hearing care professionals, and study partners in a respectful and service-oriented manner.

• A clear and confident communicator who keeps relevant stakeholders informed and raises questions, risks, or deviations early.

• Hands-on and solution-oriented, with the ability to respond calmly and practically when study conditions change.

• Collaborative and comfortable working independently as well as across functions, cultures, countries, and organizational levels.

• Curious and improvement-minded, with a strong commitment to participant experience and dependable study delivery.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.