Verification and Validation Lead
GE HEALTHCARE · Posted Oct 9
Medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital health solutions provider
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About the role
GE HealthCare is a global medical technology and digital solutions innovator whose mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. The Verification & Validation team drives quality, compliance, and product verification for software-intensive medical devices and connected healthcare solutions. This role leads end-to-end V&V activities across the product lifecycle — defining verification strategies and test plans, building automated test frameworks and CI/CD test infrastructure, and ensuring regulatory, safety, and performance requirements are met.
What you will do
- Lead verification and validation activities for software, systems, and integrated medical device solutions.
- Define verification strategies, test plans, protocols, and quality metrics aligned with product requirements, risk management, and regulatory expectations.
- Ensure complete traceability between requirements, risk controls, verification evidence, defects, and release deliverables.
- Drive risk-based verification approaches in compliance with ISO 14971 and medical device quality processes.
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks for system, integration, API, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Enhance test infrastructure, simulation environments, and CI/CD pipelines to improve automation, coverage, and efficiency.
- Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and resolution planning for product quality issues.
- Contribute to verification of system performance, reliability, scalability, interoperability, and other critical product characteristics.
- Collaborate with Software, Systems, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, and Product teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Mentor verification engineers and promote best practices in quality engineering, automation, and regulatory compliance.
- Support design reviews, risk assessments, audits, CAPA activities, and regulatory submissions.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM discipline.
- Proven experience leading Verification & Validation activities for complex software products, preferably within the medical device industry.
- Strong experience with software test automation and quality engineering practices.
- Hands-on programming experience in Java, Python, C#, or similar languages.
- Experience testing distributed systems, cloud applications, web services, APIs, and device-integrated solutions.
- Experience with CI/CD tools, defect management systems, and requirements management platforms.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
- Experience with virtualization, containers, simulation environments, and hardware-software integration testing.
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Passion for quality, patient safety, and engineering excellence.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive a culture of verification, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working within regulated environments governed by IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA Quality System Regulations, and EU MDR.
- Knowledge of Design Controls, DHF, DMR, CAPA, Change Control, and Risk Management processes.
- Experience supporting regulatory audits, inspections, and submissions.
- Familiarity with performance, reliability, and non-functional verification of distributed healthcare systems and connected medical devices.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About GE HEALTHCARE
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator dedicated to providing integrated solutions, services, and data analytics. Spun off from General Electric, the company serves patients and healthcare providers globally through its advanced imaging, ultrasound, patient care solutions, and pharmaceutical diagnostics segments. It focuses on driving precision care, improving hospital efficiency, and advancing clinical outcomes worldwide.
- Industry
- Medical Devices
- Company size
- 54000 employees
- Founded
- 2023
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Science and Technology Officer
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
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