Senior Verification and Validation Engineer
Accuray · Madison, WI
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Accuray (medical devices) in Madison, WI. You will be responsible for ensuring Accuray products are safe, effective, reliable, and ready for customer use through deep technical understanding, risk-based testing, system integration, and verification and validation activities.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FDA / GMP, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Wisconsin: typical posted base $74k–$115k.
Median of the low and high ends of 11 live postings that list pay, out of 36 quality engineer openings in Wisconsin, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 35 other live quality postings in Wisconsin.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $74k–$115k, from 11 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 67%
- Supplier quality 44%
- SPC 44%
- FMEA 42%
- Team leadership 36%
- Control plans 36%
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This plant: Accuray in Madison
1 other open role at this site.
- Reliability Engineer · Reliability
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Requirements
and Risk Analysis: Review and understand user, system, and design
requirements
to develop effective verification and validation strategies and identify project risks early.
- ✓Project Participation and Technical Leadership: Support project planning, estimation, and execution activities. Partner with engineering teams throughout development to improve quality, testability, and release readiness.
- ✓Test Strategy and Test Case Development: Design, document, and maintain verification, validation, integration, workflow, regression, and functional test cases aligned to project
requirements
and intended use.
- ✓Test Execution: Execute testing activities across software, hardware, networking, workflow, and integrated system environments while producing objective evidence suitable for design history file deliverables.
- ✓Anomaly Investigation and Troubleshooting: Identify, document, reproduce, investigate, and track anomalies. Work with cross-functional teams to support root-cause analysis and issue resolution.
- ✓Test Environment Ownership: Configure, maintain, and improve production-equivalent test environments including computers, networks, databases, medical device hardware, software installations, and supporting infrastructure.
- ✓System Integration: Develop a broad understanding of system interactions across Accuray products and subsystems to support integration, regression analysis, and release activities.
- ✓Quality Advocacy: Advocate for release-quality design outputs, testability, serviceability, usability, and overall product quality throughout the development lifecycle.
- ✓Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, project managers, service personnel, manufacturing, regulatory, and other Product Test Engineering team members to facilitate successful project execution.
- ✓Continuous Improvement: Contribute to process improvements, test suite modernization, cross-training initiatives, and organizational knowledge sharing.
Required
- ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- ✓3–5 years of experience in testing, verification, validation, systems engineering, product development, or a closely related technical discipline.
- ✓Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex hardware, software, networking, and system-level issues.
- ✓Ability to quickly learn new technologies, products, and workflows while balancing multiple priorities.
- ✓Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
- ✓Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability for deliverables and project commitments.
- ✓Experience creating technical documentation, executing formal test activities, and communicating technical findings.
requirements
management, defect tracking, and test management tools.
- ✓Experience establishing and maintaining test environments and laboratory infrastructure.
- ✓Knowledge of veri
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Job Description
Company Statement
Give hope. Give health. Make your mark in the fight against cancer.
At Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day — helping them live longer, better lives. But our commitment to innovation offers a truly unique opportunity: the chance to change the fight against cancer — helping to develop, introduce and support new treatment delivery systems and software that will give new hope and new health to cancer patients and cancer survivors around the world.
Accuray develops, manufactures and sells radiotherapy systems for alternative cancer treatments. Our radiation therapy for cancer makes treatment shorter, safer, personalized and more effective, ultimately enabling patients to live longer, better lives.
Summary
As a Senior Verification and Validation Engineer (V&V) , you will be responsible for ensuring Accuray products are safe, effective, reliable, and ready for customer use through deep technical understanding, risk-based testing, system integration, and verification and validation activities. Product Test Engineering partners with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Service, Manufacturing, Regulatory, and Project Leadership teams throughout the development lifecycle to identify risks early, influence product quality, establish production-equivalent test environments, execute testing, investigate anomalies, and support successful product releases.
Successful candidates are highly adaptable problem solvers who enjoy learning complex systems, troubleshooting difficult technical issues, collaborating across disciplines, and driving high-quality outcomes in a regulated medical device environment.
Reporting to/department
Reports to the Sr Manager, Product Test Engineering
Preferred or Desired
- +Experience within an FDA-regulated medical device environment or other regulated industry.
- +Experience testing complex integrated systems that include software, hardware, networking, and workflow components.
- +Experience with
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