Lead Test & Validation Engineer – AI/ML & Cloud

Leidos Inc; Rockville (MD); Presencial; USD 92.000 - 167.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health and Wellness programs

Competitive compensation

Paid Leave and Retirement

Descripción de la vacante

Leidos is seeking a Test & Validation Engineer Lead to support NIH/NCI/CBIIT BITSDIS 2 program. The role leads verification, validation, and quality engineering across enterprise apps and AI/ML systems in a federal environment.

Responsibilities include developing TEMP and validation strategies, overseeing CI/CD automated testing, and ensuring compliance with NIH, HHS, NIST, and privacy/cybersecurity standards. Strong collaboration with government stakeholders is required.

Formación

• Eight (8) or more years of progressively responsible experience relevant to the position.
• Experience supporting NIH, HHS, CMS, or other Federal civilian agencies.
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks and integrating quality engineering into Agile and DevSecOps environments.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and with DevSecOps practices.
• Strong understanding of software quality assurance methodologies, requirements traceability, risk-based testing, and defect lifecycle management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required Federal suitability or security requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust / ADPII Clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Lead all verification, validation, and quality engineering activities across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, AI/ML solutions, and biomedical informatics systems.
• Develop and maintain the program's Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Validation Strategy, Quality Management Plan, and automated testing framework.
• Define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and validation methodologies for functional, integration, system, regression, performance, security, usability, interoperability, and user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, business analysts, software engineers, AI/ML engineers, and SMEs to ensure requirements are fully testable and traceable from design through deployment.
• Oversee automated testing using CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices to improve software quality and release efficiency.
• Lead validation of AI and machine learning solutions, including model verification, performance evaluation, explainability, bias assessment, reproducibility, drift monitoring, and ongoing model quality.
• Ensure software and AI systems comply with NIH, HHS, NIST, Section 508, privacy, cybersecurity, and applicable federal quality standards.
• Direct defect management, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Develop quality metrics, dashboards, and executive reports to communicate testing progress, release readiness, and overall system quality to Government leadership.
• Mentor quality engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellence.

Descripción del empleo

Leidos is seeking a Test & Validation Engineer Lead to support NIH/NCI/CBIIT BITSDIS 2 program. The role leads verification, validation, and quality engineering across enterprise apps and AI/ML systems in a federal environment.

Responsibilities include developing TEMP and validation strategies, overseeing CI/CD automated testing, and ensuring compliance with NIH, HHS, NIST, and privacy/cybersecurity standards. Strong collaboration with government stakeholders is required.