Archive Verification and Validation Engineer

Key Responsibilities 

Verification & Validation 

• Develop and execute Verification and Validation (V&V) strategies, plans, and test cases. 

• Validate that product requirements and user workflows are fully tested and traceable. 

• Generate objective evidence supporting release approval decisions. 

• Participate in risk-based testing activities and release readiness reviews.  

System & Integration Testing 

• Perform end-to-end testing of VNA features and workflows. 

• Validate integration between application services, databases, storage components, and external healthcare systems. 

• Execute regression testing to ensure existing functionality remains unaffected by software changes. 

• Verify defect resolutions and perform impact assessments. 

Installation & Upgrade Qualification 

• Validate new product installations. 

• Validate customer upgrade paths across supported VNA releases. 

• Verify installation and upgrade documentation for accuracy and completeness. 

• Ensure configuration settings, workflows, and customer data remain functional following upgrades. 

• Participate in First Unit Build (FUB) qualification activities. 

Release Qualification & Readiness 

• Support formal and informal release verification activities. 

• Assess production readiness of release candidates. 

• Identify quality risks and communicate findings to stakeholders. 

• Collaborate with Development and DevOps teams to resolve release-blocking issues.  

Performance & Scalability Validation 

• Execute performance and repeatability testing. 

• Analyze application throughput, response time, CPU utilization, memory utilization, and system stability. 

• Identify performance bottlenecks and collaborate with engineering teams on corrective actions. 

Documentation & Compliance 

• Create and maintain test plans, protocols, reports, and execution evidence. 

• Support traceability between requirements, test cases, and verification results. 

• Ensure testing activities comply with established quality processes and procedures. 

• Participate in audits and compliance reviews as required. 

VNA-Specific Responsibilities 

Medical Imaging Workflow Validation 

• Validate DICOM ingestion, storage, lifecycle management, and retrieval workflows. 

• Verify behavior of patient, study, series, and image-level operations. 

• Test archive interoperability with imaging modalities, PACS, viewers, RIS, EMR, and third-party systems. 

• Validate data migration and archive consolidation workflows. 

Deployment & Infrastructure Validation 

• Validate SSA, Enterprise Cluster, and other supported deployment models. 

• Verify system behavior across distributed environments. 

• Validate storage configurations, database connectivity, and platform services. 

• Execute qualification testing in customer-like deployment environments. 

Upgrade & Migration Testing 

• Validate archive migrations. 

• Verify upgrade paths across supported product versions. 

• Confirm preservation of customer configurations and operational behavior after upgrades. 

• Validate disaster recovery and rollback scenarios where applicable. 

Required Qualifications 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical field. 

• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. 

Experience 

• 3+ years of software quality assurance or software testing experience. 

• Experience with system testing and integration testing of enterprise software. 

• Experience working within Agile or iterative development environments. 

• Experience creating test plans, test cases, and test execution reports. 

Required Technical Skills 

Quality Assurance 

• Verification & Validation (V&V) 

• Test planning and execution 

• Regression testing 

• Defect tracking and verification 

• Risk-based testing 

• Root cause analysis 

Enterprise Software 

• Client-server applications 

• Distributed systems 

• Database validation and testing 

• Application deployment and upgrade testing 

Tools & Processes 

• Jira 

• Test management tools 

• Requirements traceability 

• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) 

• Release management processes 

• Quality Management System (QMS) processes 

Preferred Qualifications 

Healthcare IT Experience 

• Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) 

• PACS 

• Enterprise Imaging 

• DICOM 

• HL7 

• IHE integration profiles 

• Medical imaging workflows 

Technical Expertise 

• Linux administration 

• Oracle or SQL databases 

• Web services and APIs 

• Container-based deployments 

• Test automation frameworks 

• Performance testing tools 

Competencies 

The successful candidate demonstrates: 

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. 

• Attention to detail and commitment to quality. 

• Ability to evaluate complete system workflows rather than isolated components. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Ability to work effectively across Development, Product Management, DevOps, Professional Services, and Support organizations. 

Success Criteria 

A successful VNA PQA Engineer: 

• Ensures releases meet functional, interoperability, performance, deployment, and upgrade requirements. 

• Identifies quality risks early in the development lifecycle. 

• Produces audit-ready verification evidence. 

• Enables predictable, high-quality customer deployments. 

• Serves as a trusted technical quality expert for the Merge VNA platform