Digital Thread Test Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $116.3k - $210.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Provide enterprise-level test leadership across PLM, MES, ERP, enterprise integrations, and reporting capabilities • Own the end-to-end testing strategy and lifecycle across concurrent technology initiatives • Establish testing standards, coordinate multidisciplinary test teams and stakeholders, and assess release readiness and risk • Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, procedures, schedules, and success criteria • Define approaches for component, system, integration, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing • Translate functional and technical requirements into traceable test cases and acceptance criteria • Establish and maintain enterprise testing standards, processes, templates, and governance • Coordinate with project, functional, technical, infrastructure, cybersecurity, supplier, and business teams to ensure test readiness • Lead and coordinate testing across digital thread capabilities • Oversee test execution and adherence to approved plans, procedures, requirements, and acceptance criteria • Coordinate tester assignments, responsibilities, access, environments, test data, and prerequisite activities • Manage defect identification, documentation, prioritization, retesting, and closure • Assess test results, unresolved defects, and risks to recommend release readiness • Ensure test evidence and results are complete, accurate, traceable, and retained • Develop and present test status, results, risks, defects, and readiness assessments to program leadership and stakeholders • Communicate complex technical findings to technical, business, and executive audiences • Conduct post-test reviews, debriefs, and lessons-learned activities • Analyze testing results and defect trends to identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities • Refine testing methodologies, processes, tools, metrics, and automation • Evaluate and support responsible integration of artificial intelligence and automation into testing processes

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline with 12–15 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree with 10–13 years of relevant experience • Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree where permitted by the applicable job profile • Significant experience developing and executing test strategies and test plans for complex enterprise applications or integrated systems • Experience leading system, integration, regression, user acceptance, and release-readiness testing • Demonstrated experience managing requirements-to-test traceability, defects, test evidence, and acceptance criteria • Experience coordinating testing across multidisciplinary technical, functional, supplier, and business teams • Ability to analyze complex system behavior, integration dependencies, and defects spanning multiple applications • Demonstrated ability to communicate technical risks, results, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership • Experience leading technical work across multiple concurrent projects or programs • Preferred: Experience testing Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), ERP, or integrated manufacturing and engineering systems • Preferred: Experience with iBase-t Solumina MES, PTC Windchill PLM, Deltek Costpoint ERP, eQube-MI, or eQube-BI • Preferred: Experience validating end-to-end transactions and data flows across PLM, MES, ERP, and middleware platforms • Preferred: Working knowledge of SQL Server, Oracle, SQL querying, relational databases, and enterprise data structures • Preferred: Experience with automated testing frameworks, test management platforms, and requirements management tools • Preferred: Experience applying artificial intelligence or intelligent automation to software testing and quality assurance • Preferred: Experience supporting aerospace, defense, regulated manufacturing, or other mission-critical environments