Senior V&V Engineer - Medical Devices

Accuray; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accuray in Madison, WI seeks a Senior Verification and Validation Engineer to lead verification and validation activities for complex medical device software and hardware. You will design tests, execute across software, hardware, networks, and workflows, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure release readiness in a regulated environment.

The role emphasizes risk-based testing, documentable evidence for design history files, and continuous improvement of test environments and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, or a related technical field; or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of testing, verification, validation, or systems engineering experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for hardware, software, networking, and system-level issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Review and understand user, system, and design requirements to develop verification and validation strategies and identify risks.
• Support project planning, estimation, and execution; collaborate with engineering to improve quality and release readiness.
• Design, document, and maintain verification, validation, integration, regression, and functional test cases.
• Execute testing across software, hardware, networking, workflow, and integrated environments with objective evidence for DHF deliverables.
• Investigate and troubleshoot anomalies; perform root-cause analyses with cross-functional teams.
• Configure and maintain production-equivalent test environments and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop broad understanding of system interactions to support integration and release activities.
• Advocate for release-quality design outputs and overall product quality; collaborate across teams.
• Contribute to process improvements, test-suite modernization, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Problem-solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Independent work

Verbal & written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Physical Sciences or related

Tools

Test management tools

Defect tracking systems

Requirement management

Job description

Accuray in Madison, WI seeks a Senior Verification and Validation Engineer to lead verification and validation activities for complex medical device software and hardware. You will design tests, execute across software, hardware, networks, and workflows, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure release readiness in a regulated environment.

The role emphasizes risk-based testing, documentable evidence for design history files, and continuous improvement of test environments and processes.