Verification and Validation Lead - Performance and Reliability Engineering

GE Healthcare Private Limited; Karnataka; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Healthcare Private Limited is seeking a senior Verification & Validation Lead to drive quality and compliance for software-intensive medical device products and connected healthcare solutions. You will lead verification strategy, execution, and release readiness while guiding performance, reliability, scalability, and NFR validation across distributed systems.

The role requires hands-on experience in designing, automating, and executing performance tests, with strong leadership to mentor

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree required in CS/engineering related field.
• Proven leader for Verification & Validation of complex software products.
• Hands-on performance engineering and NFR verification experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Verification & Validation activities for medical device software and systems.
• Define risk-based verification strategies aligned with product requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Own verification for Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including performance, scalability and security.
• Design and execute performance qualification tests: load, stress, endurance, capacity.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts and automation frameworks.
• Analyze bottlenecks across applications, databases, cloud, networking, and distributed components.
• Lead reliability validation through fault injection, failover, and recovery testing.
• Drive automation-first testing and CI/CD integration.
• Mentor verification engineers and establish best practices.
• Collaborate with Software, Systems, Architecture, Quality and Regulatory teams.

Skills

V&V Leadership

Performance Engineering

NFR Verification

Automation & CI/CD

Mentoring & Guidance

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Software Engineering

Tools

Java

Python

JMeter

Gatling

k6

LoadRunner

Locust

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

Splunk

App Insights

Job description

V&V Lead – Performance & Reliability Engineering Job Description Summary We are looking for an experienced Verification & Validation Lead to drive quality and compliance for software-intensive medical device products and connected healthcare solutions. This role will lead the overall verification strategy, execution, and release readiness while serving as the technical leader for Performance, Reliability, Scalability, and Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) validation. The ideal candidate combines strong V&V leadership experience with hands-on expertise in designing, automating, and executing performance and reliability testing for complex distributed systems. GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our purpose is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

tex Job Description V&V Lead – Performance & Reliability Engineering We are looking for an experienced Verification & Validation Lead to drive quality and compliance for software-intensive medical device products and connected healthcare solutions. This role will lead the overall verification strategy, execution, and release readiness while serving as the technical leader for Performance, Reliability, Scalability, and Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) validation . The ideal candidate combines strong V&V leadership experience with hands-on expertise in designing, automating, and executing performance and reliability testing for complex distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Verification & Validation activities for medical device software and system solutions.
• Define risk-based verification strategies and ensure alignment with product requirements, quality objectives, and regulatory expectations.
• Own the verification approach for Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), including performance, scalability, reliability, availability, resilience, recoverability, security, and interoperability.
• Design and execute performance qualification activities including load, stress, endurance, scalability, failover, recovery, and capacity testing.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts, automation frameworks, workload simulators, and reliability test harnesses.
• Analyze system bottlenecks and performance issues across applications, databases, cloud infrastructure, networking, and distributed system components.
• Lead reliability and resilience validation through fault injection, network impairment, failover, and recovery testing.
• Drive automation-first testing practices and integrate verification into CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor verification engineers and establish best practices for verification, automation, and quality engineering.
• Collaborate with Software, Systems, Architecture, Quality, and Regulatory teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA, and MDR regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related STEM discipline.
• Proven experience leading Verification & Validation activities for complex software products, preferably medical devices or regulated systems.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Performance Engineering, Reliability Testing, and NFR verification.
• Experience developing automation frameworks and test scripts using Java, Python, or similar technologies.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, k6, LoadRunner, Locust, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, networking, observability, and scalability principles.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and automated quality pipelines.
• Excellent technical leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in connected healthcare, cloud-connected medical devices, remote serviceability solutions, or distributed healthcare platforms.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Splunk, or App Insights.
• Experience validating highly available, mission-critical systems in regulated environments.

What You’ll Bring

A unique combination of Verification Leadership, Quality Engineering, and hands-on Performance & Reliability expertise, with the ability to define strategy, develop technical solutions, and influence product quality across the organization.

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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