QA Engineer TS/SCI Poly | PKI & SATCOM Quality Lead

Leidos LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid Holidays

401K with company match

Flexible Schedules

Discounted Stock Purchase Plans

Technical Upskilling

Education and Training Support

Parental Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to support a high-impact, multi-agency program serving USSF/SSC, USAF, and other mission stakeholders. The role focuses on enhancing, testing, and deploying a large SATCOM system within established infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has PKI and Agile development experience, strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, and will drive process improvements, audits, and metrics across the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of experience supporting large-scale Agile programs.
• Experience developing quality assurance program management plans and conducting internal process audits.
• Experience conducting peer reviews, process auditing, and/or software configuration audits.
• Experience with, or strong familiarity with, Quality Management for Software Development and IT Service Management projects.
• Experience collecting and analyzing data and developing actionable metrics and reports.

Responsibilities

• Integrate closely with the program team to implement and execute the Quality Management System (QMS).
• Recommend, facilitate, track, and report on continuous process improvement initiatives and activities.
• Support the program-specific tailoring of the QMS and the deployment and implementation of appropriate QMS processes.
• Support the development and collection of performance metrics.
• Document and drive resolution of nonconformities and requirement escapes through root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
• Contribute to required Leidos quality reporting, including Quality Management Reviews, In Process Reviews, Weekly Activity Reports, and Monthly Operational Reviews.

Skills

PKI knowledge

Agile experience

QA program management

Internal process audits

Root cause analysis

Communication skills

Data analysis & metrics

Peer reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to support a high-impact, multi-agency program serving USSF/SSC, USAF, and other mission stakeholders. The role focuses on enhancing, testing, and deploying a large SATCOM system within established infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has PKI and Agile development experience, strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, and will drive process improvements, audits, and metrics across the program.