Senior Verification and Validation Engineer

Senior Verification and Validation Engineer (V&V)

As a Senior Verification and Validation Engineer (V&V), you will be responsible for ensuring Accuray products are safe, effective, reliable, and ready for customer use through deep technical understanding, risk-based testing, system integration, and verification and validation activities. Product Test Engineering partners with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Service, Manufacturing, Regulatory, and Project Leadership teams throughout the development lifecycle to identify risks early, influence product quality, establish production-equivalent test environments, execute testing, investigate anomalies, and support successful product releases.

Successful candidates are highly adaptable problem solvers who enjoy learning complex systems, troubleshooting difficult technical issues, collaborating across disciplines, and driving high-quality outcomes in a regulated medical device environment.

Reports to the Sr Manager, Product Test Engineering

• Requirements and Risk Analysis:
  Review and understand user, system, and design requirements to develop effective verification and validation strategies and identify project risks early.
• Project Participation and Technical Leadership:
  Support project planning, estimation, and execution activities. Partner with engineering teams throughout development to improve quality, testability, and release readiness.
• Test Strategy and Test Case Development:
  Design, document, and maintain verification, validation, integration, workflow, regression, and functional test cases aligned to project requirements and intended use.
• Test Execution:
  Execute testing activities across software, hardware, networking, workflow, and integrated system environments while producing objective evidence suitable for design history file deliverables.
• Anomaly Investigation and Troubleshooting:
  Identify, document, reproduce, investigate, and track anomalies. Work with cross-functional teams to support root-cause analysis and issue resolution.
• Test Environment Ownership:
  Configure, maintain, and improve production-equivalent test environments including computers, networks, databases, medical device hardware, software installations, and supporting infrastructure.
• System Integration:
  Develop a broad understanding of system interactions across Accuray products and subsystems to support integration, regression analysis, and release activities.
• Quality Advocacy:
  Advocate for release-quality design outputs, testability, serviceability, usability, and overall product quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with engineers, project managers, service personnel, manufacturing, regulatory, and other Product Test Engineering team members to facilitate successful project execution.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Contribute to process improvements, test suite modernization, cross-training initiatives, and organizational knowledge sharing.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in testing, verification, validation, systems engineering, product development, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex hardware, software, networking, and system-level issues.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, products, and workflows while balancing multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability for deliverables and project commitments.
• Experience creating technical documentation, executing formal test activities, and communicating technical findings.

• Experience with in an FDA-regulated medical device environment or other regulated industry.
• Experience testing complex integrated systems that include software, hardware, networking, and workflow components.
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