Remote Digital Thread Test Lead - Enterprise Testing Leader

Via Logic LLC; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Test Lead to provide enterprise-level testing leadership across PLM, MES, ERP, and reporting, owning the end-to-end testing strategy and lifecycle to ensure functionality, integration integrity, and production release readiness.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary test teams and stakeholders, establish testing standards, and drive continuous improvement of testing methodologies, tools, automation, and AI-enabled approaches; telework from any U.S. location is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline with 12-15 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree with 10-13 years of relevant experience.
• 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.
• Define test scope and approaches for component, system, integration, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
• Translate functional and technical requirements into traceable test cases and acceptance criteria.
• Establish and maintain enterprise testing standards, processes, templates, and governance.
• Coordinate with project, functional, technical, infrastructure, cybersecurity, supplier, and business teams to ensure test readiness.
• Lead and coordinate testing across PLM, MES, ERP, integration, reporting, and related digital thread capabilities.
• Oversee test execution and ensure adherence to approved plans, procedures, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate tester assignments, responsibilities, access, environments, test data, and prerequisite activities.
• Manage defect identification, documentation, prioritization, retesting, and closure in coordination with technical and functional teams.
• Assess test results, unresolved defects, and associated risks to provide recommendations regarding release readiness.
• Ensure test evidence and results are complete, accurate, traceable, and appropriately retained.
• Develop and present test status, results, risks, defects, and readiness assessments to program leadership and stakeholders.
• Communicate complex technical findings effectively to technical, business, and executive audiences.
• Conduct post-test reviews, debriefs, and lessons-learned activities.
• Analyze testing results and defect trends to identify systemic issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Refine testing methodologies, processes, tools, metrics, and automation based on lessons learned and industry practices.
• Evaluate and support responsible integration of artificial intelligence and automation into testing processes.

Skills

Test leadership

Stakeholder communication

Test strategy

System analysis

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

Automated testing frameworks

Test management tools

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Test Lead to provide enterprise-level testing leadership across PLM, MES, ERP, and reporting, owning the end-to-end testing strategy and lifecycle to ensure functionality, integration integrity, and production release readiness.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary test teams and stakeholders, establish testing standards, and drive continuous improvement of testing methodologies, tools, automation, and AI-enabled approaches; telework from any U.S. location is supported.