Test & Assurance Manager (Security Clearance)

XPT Software Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia is seeking a Test and Evaluation Manager to lead systems engineering and T&E activities within the Land Network Integration Centre (LNIC). You will coordinate across five T&E strands, engage with Defence stakeholders, and drive governance and reporting to ensure compliant, evidence-based assessments of land capability projects.

The role focuses on integrating complex systems and ensuring robust verification and validation across Army digital networks and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee Test & Evaluation (T&E) activities within the Validate Frame to ensure appropriate methodologies are applied for LC4I systems integration.
• Engage with Defence organisations, projects and enabling ICT providers to resolve integration issues and support informed engineering decisions.
• Coordinate across the LNIC five strands of specialist T&E (Experimentation, OT&E, AT&E, Cyber T&E, LCS-BL integration and compliance).
• Develop reports and governance artefacts to support T&E outcomes and assurance across the Army Operating System.

Job description

Test and Assurance Manager

Systems and Software Engineering - Testing and Evaluation (including verification and validation) - L3

Role Description

Scope of Task: The Land Network Integration Centre (LNIC) mission is to advise and direct Army on its digital network integration efforts to maximise interoperability across Land, Joint and Coalition interface boundaries and to meet critical information exchange requirements via approved interfaces and standards. The intent is to ensure that Army’s investments are integrated to maximise the operational functions of individual projects within the Army Operating System.

The LNIC Manages Five Streams Of Work. They Are

The LNIC Validate Team provides the systems, processes and workforce that enables LNIC to conduct systems of systems integration Test & Evaluation (T&E) activities. The Validate Frame is responsible for the provision of the LCS Support Environment that houses the LCS Battle Labs (and their digital representations). These systems represent the development and testing environments that allow Army to conduct a level of experimentation and concept demonstration using LCS capabilities in an efficient manner to support integration decisions.

The Digital Design Team is implementing a modelling and standards management sub-program to lead the development of the Land Combat System Digital Design (LCS DD) IAW the Land Operating Concept and the design guidance from the Joint Force Model. The sub-program employs a Model Based Systems Engineering approach to capture the current baseline and configuration, which will be used to undertake system-of-systems design activities to generate the next baseline.

The LNIC Advice Team provides the workforce and services associated with Integration and Security Advice. The Advice Frame is required to investigate, analyse, understand the complexities of systems across the Land domain, and support the SO2 Advice in the generation of Integration Advice using the LNIC Engineering Management System and LIF Directive in support of the directed outcomes in the Army Order (TAP).

The LNIC Engineering Team provides specialist systems engineering, integration, technical assurance, and capability development support to Army and Defence stakeholders. The team enables the effective integration of current and future Land Combat System capabilities through systems engineering, analysis, design, and technical assessment activities.

The Army AI Governance and Assurance team enables the adoption of AI-enabled capabilities through governance, assurance and decision support. The team develops governance artefacts, advises senior stakeholders, engages external partners, and increasingly conducts and oversees AI assurance and TEVV activities to provide independent, evidence-based assessments of AI performance, limitations and risks in support of capability, acquisition and operational decision-making.

The overarching intent is to ensure that Army’s investments in Land Capability are integrated in such a way to maximise the operational functions of individual projects, within the Army Operating System. The Commonwealth seeks to engage a Test and Evaluation (T&E) Manager to supplement the contractor workforce within the Land Network Integration Centre (LNIC). A Resource will be required to assist the LNIC with the design, development, conduct and reporting of Test Activities.

LNIC As An Accredited Engineering Organisation (AEO), And Test And Evaluation Accountable Unit (T&E AU) Has Established Test, Certification And Verification Regimes To Ensure Land C4I Systems Are Integrated Into The Land Network. LNIC Conducts Specialist T&E Activities For LC4 Networks Across The LCS-D. LNIC Has Five Strands Of Specialist T&E (labelled Below As V&V) Which Cover

• Experimentation - PT&E and DT&E activities for internal and external projects,
• OT&E - field trials of internal projects and support to LTEA for elements of Land Trials,
• AT&E - compliance and performance testing for internal projects, and support to CASG for elements of external projects. Includes Land Combat System Standards Authority (LCS SAuth) testing related to LNIC LCS Standards (previously identified as Generic Systems Architecture (GXA) standards),
• Cyber T&E,
• Land Combat System Battle Lab (LCS-BL) integration and compliance testing for internal and external projects across the DT&E and AT&E domains).

The position is primarily a Systems Engineering role within the Validate Frame with a strong focus on the conduct and management of T&E activities to ensure that sufficient and correct T&E methodologies are employed in LNIC.

This role requires capacity for stakeholder engagement across Defence organisations, projects, and enabling ICT providers. Engagement is undertaken with SO2 Validate guidance in order to resolve integration issues, assure system alignment, and enable infor med engineering decisions across interconnected systems.