Remote Digital Thread Test Lead – MES/PLM Solutions

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Test Lead to scale digital thread initiatives by modernizing testing across PLM, MES, ERP, and related platforms. This role focuses on strategy, execution, and governance to ensure release readiness and quality across enterprise systems.

The position requires U.S. Citizenship, a senior level of testing expertise, and the ability to coordinate with diverse teams across engineering, cybersecurity, and operations. Remote work from any U.S. location is supported.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• 12–15 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 10–13 years with a Master’s degree.
• 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Engineering

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Test Lead to scale digital thread initiatives by modernizing testing across PLM, MES, ERP, and related platforms. This role focuses on strategy, execution, and governance to ensure release readiness and quality across enterprise systems.

The position requires U.S. Citizenship, a senior level of testing expertise, and the ability to coordinate with diverse teams across engineering, cybersecurity, and operations. Remote work from any U.S. location is supported.