Digital Thread Test Lead — Remote Enterprise QA Leader

Careerwebsite; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos’ Digital Thread Systems team seeks a Test Lead to scale manufacturing by modernizing systems and infrastructure that connect product development to realization. You will own end-to-end testing across PLM, MES, ERP, and integrations, defining strategies, and driving release readiness.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, report status to leadership, and foster continuous improvement including AI-driven testing methods across enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, plans, procedures, schedules, and success criteria across digital thread initiatives.
• Translate requirements into traceable test cases and acceptance criteria.
• Establish enterprise testing standards, processes, templates, and governance.
• Coordinate with project, functional, technical, infrastructure, cybersecurity, supplier, and business teams for test readiness.

Skills

Test leadership

Enterprise testing

Stakeholder communication

Team coordination

AI in testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

iBase-t Solumina MES

PTC Windchill PLM

Deltek Costpoint ERP

eQube-MI

eQube-BI

Job description

Leidos’ Digital Thread Systems team seeks a Test Lead to scale manufacturing by modernizing systems and infrastructure that connect product development to realization. You will own end-to-end testing across PLM, MES, ERP, and integrations, defining strategies, and driving release readiness.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, report status to leadership, and foster continuous improvement including AI-driven testing methods across enterprise environments.