Description
Leidos is seeking a Principal Test Director to lead the test, verification, and validation (V&V) function for an international air traffic modernization program.
The program aims to design, integrate, test, implement, and provide long-term support for a new Enroute Air Navigation Services (ANS) System for Avians, the air navigation service provider responsible for the airspace over Iceland and the surrounding North Atlantic.
The Principal Test Director will own the test effort end-to-end and direct the coordinated test programme across the full acceptance lifecycle.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the test strategy, test plans, test procedures/scripts, and test criteria for the ATM/ANS system.
- Stand up the test organization, forecast test skill and resource needs, recruit and onboard test managers and test engineers, and integrate the test team.
- Prepare testing documents, gain customer approval, and conduct acceptance tests against approved test criteria.
- Lead formal acceptance events, including FAT, IAT, and SAT, with active customer participation.
- Embed a continuous, risk-based test approach across the lifecycle.
- Direct the full range of test types required by the programme.
- Support customer-side and co-development teams.
- Develop and manage integrated verification schedules, identify test-related program risks, and provide executive-level status reporting.
- Support the development of the Safety Case through V&V evidence.
- Manage defect identification, triage, and resolution.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Systems Engineering, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering.
- Minimum 12 years of total professional experience in test, verification, and validation, and/or engineering of large, complex systems and subsystems.
- Minimum 7 years in a test leadership or test-management role.
- Demonstrable prior involvement in a senior test role in at least one delivery of a comparable mission- or safety-critical system.
- Working knowledge of verification & validation (V&V) practice for large, complex, safety-critical systems.
- Competence with industry-standard test management, requirements-management, defect-tracking, and configuration-management tooling.
- Awareness of cybersecurity acceptance testing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Strong leadership, planning, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Willing and able to work on-site as required and travel internationally.
Preferred Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- Master's degree in a relevant engineering, computing, or systems discipline.
- Recognized test/quality certification.
- Familiarity with recognized quality and assurance frameworks.
- Prior senior test experience on ATM/ANS or comparable real-time, high-availability, safety-critical systems.
- Experience supporting customer-side and co-development teams.
- Familiarity with safety-critical software engineering and safety-assurance activities.
The pay range for this position is $131,300.00 - $237,350.00.