Tester Quality Assurance Engineering

Merative•Mississauga, ON

2d•$78,258 - $117,387•Remote

About The Position

Merge medical imaging solutions, offered by Merative, combine intelligent, scalable imaging workflow tools with deep and broad expertise to help healthcare organizations improve their confidence in patient outcomes and optimize care delivery. The Product Quality Assurance (PQA) Engineer is responsible for verification and validation of the Merge Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) platform and associated imaging workflows. The role provides independent quality oversight throughout the software development lifecycle and ensures that released software meets functional, performance, interoperability, deployment, upgrade, and compliance requirements. The PQA Engineer collaborates closely with Development, Product Management, DevOps, Solution Architecture, Implementation Engineering, and Support teams to validate that VNA releases are ready for customer deployment. Responsibilities include system testing, integration testing, installation qualification, upgrade validation, defect verification, release readiness assessment, and generation of objective test evidence required by quality processes.

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.
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
Jira
Test management tools
Requirements traceability
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Release management processes
Quality Management System (QMS) processes

Nice To Haves

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
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.

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.