Senior Test Director

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $116.3k - $210.3k / year

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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

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of automated enterprise testing activities supporting VMware private cloud SDDC modernization initiatives • Develop and maintain the programme Test Strategy, Master Test Plan, and release validation approach for ECS, CPS, IaaS, DevOps, and SMC capabilities • Lead functional, system integration, interoperability, regression, performance, security, and customer acceptance testing • Establish testing standards, methodologies, quality gates, and engineering processes across the programme • Lead multidisciplinary test teams with technical direction, mentoring, workload prioritization, and engineering oversight • Collaborate with engineering teams to validate integrated enterprise capabilities • Manage the testing backlog, refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and prioritize testing activities in Agile environments • Maintain the testing roadmap, including milestones, dependencies, environments, and release activities in Jira • Identify, manage, and resolve cross-functional testing blockers and technical dependencies • Partner with Scrum Masters and Product Owners on backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, release planning, and programme increment planning • Monitor quality through Jira dashboards, Agile metrics, defect trends, and test coverage • Oversee defect management, including triage, prioritization, root cause analysis, and resolution • Coordinate development, configuration, and validation of test environments • Ensure testing complies with NATO security policies, programme quality standards, and engineering governance • Develop and maintain test documentation, including strategies, plans, procedures, test cases, traceability matrices, defect reports, and completion reports • Support infrastructure modernization, technical planning, customer demonstrations, and proposal development • Provide technical leadership for a secure, mission-critical private cloud programme serving government and international customers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline with 10–15 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience • Active NATO Secret clearance or higher • Experience leading enterprise test automation engineering or quality assurance teams for large-scale infrastructure, cloud, or software modernization programmes • Experience developing enterprise Test Strategies, Master Test Plans, and quality management processes for complex systems • Experience managing system integration, interoperability, performance, security, and customer acceptance testing • Experience leading multidisciplinary testing teams in secure or regulated environments • Experience leading Agile engineering teams using Jira, including user story refinement, backlog management, sprint planning, roadmap management, dependency tracking, defect management, blocker resolution, and release planning • Strong understanding of SDLC, systems engineering, Agile, SAFe, and DevSecOps methodologies • Experience with Jira, Xray, Zephyr, Azure DevOps Test Plans, or equivalent enterprise test and defect management platforms • Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, virtualization, networking, cybersecurity, and system integration principles • Experience coordinating customer acceptance testing and formal delivery milestones • Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and leadership skills • Experience supporting defence, government, or highly regulated development environments • Preferred: ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, ISTQB Test Management, or equivalent certification • Preferred: PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, or Certified Scrum Professional certification • Preferred: Experience supporting NATO environments and compliance frameworks • Preferred: Experience with automated testing frameworks, API testing, performance testing, and security testing tools • Preferred: Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrices and verification cross-reference matrices • Preferred: Familiarity with continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines • Preferred: Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization and enterprise systems integration programs

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement • Competitive compensation