Tester Quality Assurance Engineering

Merative is a company that specializes in medical imaging solutions aimed at improving patient outcomes and optimizing care delivery. The Product Quality Assurance (PQA) Engineer will be responsible for the verification and validation of the Merge Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) platform, ensuring software meets various functional and compliance requirements while collaborating with multiple teams to validate releases for customer deployment.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• Verification & Validation (V&V)
• Test planning and execution
• Regression testing
• Defect tracking and verification
• Risk-based testing
• Root cause analysis
• Client-server applications
• Distributed systems
• Database validation and testing
• Application deployment and upgrade testing
• Jira
• Test management tools
• Requirements traceability
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Release management processes
• Quality Management System (QMS) processes
• Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA)
• PACS
• Enterprise Imaging
• DICOM
• HL7
• IHE integration profiles
• Medical imaging workflows
• Linux administration
• Oracle or SQL databases
• Web services and APIs
• Container-based deployments
• Test automation frameworks
• Performance testing tools