Verification and Validation Lead

GE HealthCare; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Healthcare is seeking an experienced Verification & Validation Lead to drive quality, compliance, and product verification for software-intensive medical devices and connected healthcare solutions.

The role requires leadership of V&V activities, development of automated test frameworks, and collaboration across software, systems, and regulatory teams to ensure traceability and robust release deliverables.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Verification & Validation for software products.
• Strong software test automation and quality engineering practices.
• Hands-on programming in Java, Python, or C#.

Responsibilities

• Lead verification and validation activities for software, systems, and medical device solutions.
• Define verification strategies, test plans, protocols, and quality metrics.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, risks, verification evidence, defects, and releases.
• Drive risk-based verification in line with ISO 14971 and regulatory standards.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks for various testing levels.
• Enhance test infra, simulations, and CI/CD pipelines for automation and coverage.
• Lead defect triage and root cause analysis for product quality issues.
• Collaborate with software, systems, quality, regulatory, clinical, and product teams.

Skills

V&V leadership

Automation testing

Programming: Java

Python

C#

CI/CD

Linux/Windows

Distributed systems testing

Education

BSc/MSc in CS/SE/ Biomedical/EE

Tools

CI/CD tools

Defect management tools

Requirements management tools

Job description

Job Description Summary

We are seeking an experienced Verification & Validation Lead to drive quality, compliance, and product verification for software-intensive medical devices and connected healthcare solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM discipline.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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