What are the responsibilities and job description for the R & D Manager - Verfication and Validation - Patient Systems position at Ascom?
Hybrid | Morrisville, NC
Lead quality assurance. Advance medical device excellence. Strengthen patient care innovation.
Join Ascom’s R&D organization as an R&D Manager, Verification and Validation and play a critical leadership role in shaping the quality, reliability, and compliance of our Patient Systems solutions. This hybrid position combines people leadership, verification strategy, and cross-functional influence—ideal for someone who wants to elevate engineering quality while helping deliver technology used in mission-critical healthcare environments.
Why This Role Matters
You will sit at the center of product quality and regulatory confidence: leading verification and validation strategy, driving continuous improvement in test engineering, and ensuring our medical device solutions meet both internal quality expectations and external compliance requirements. Your leadership will help Ascom deliver safer, more reliable products while enabling development teams to move faster with stronger test coverage and automation.
What You’ll Own
Ascom is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. We value different perspectives and backgrounds and believe they help us create better solutions. At Ascom, people are judged by their skills, motivation, and potential.
Lead quality assurance. Advance medical device excellence. Strengthen patient care innovation.
Join Ascom’s R&D organization as an R&D Manager, Verification and Validation and play a critical leadership role in shaping the quality, reliability, and compliance of our Patient Systems solutions. This hybrid position combines people leadership, verification strategy, and cross-functional influence—ideal for someone who wants to elevate engineering quality while helping deliver technology used in mission-critical healthcare environments.
Why This Role Matters
You will sit at the center of product quality and regulatory confidence: leading verification and validation strategy, driving continuous improvement in test engineering, and ensuring our medical device solutions meet both internal quality expectations and external compliance requirements. Your leadership will help Ascom deliver safer, more reliable products while enabling development teams to move faster with stronger test coverage and automation.
What You’ll Own
- Lead and develop a team of verification engineers, strengthening V&V test engineering and quality assurance capabilities
- Define, evaluate, and improve test frameworks and methodologies to ensure strong functional, performance, and security test coverage
- Oversee test planning, execution, reporting, and documentation to support product quality, reliability, and compliance with Quality Management System requirements
- Drive test automation initiatives that improve scalability, reduce variability, and support a shift-left approach in the development lifecycle
- Identify and implement tools, techniques, and process improvements that increase verification efficiency and effectiveness
- Partner closely with development managers, product management, and regulatory teams to align verification activities with business needs, internal processes, and customer expectations
- Ensure verification procedures align with applicable quality, environmental, health, safety, and regulatory standards
- Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team
- Track progress, communicate risks, and ensure improvement opportunities in verification processes are addressed
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 7 years of experience in verification engineering, ideally within a regulated environment such as healthcare, medical devices, automotive, or similar industries
- 3 years of leadership experience managing and developing technical teams
- Experience developing and executing verification strategies for hardware and software systems
- Experience integrating automated tests into continuous integration environments
- Strong understanding of quality assurance practices, compliance requirements, and regulated development processes
- Proven ability to mentor teams and foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills in English
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think beyond established solutions
- Ability to work effectively both independently and cross-functionally
Ascom is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. We value different perspectives and backgrounds and believe they help us create better solutions. At Ascom, people are judged by their skills, motivation, and potential.