# Test Manager / Verification and Validation Manager

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Location**: Melbourne, Victoria
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll work on meaningful projects that protect and advance the Australian way of life. As a Test Manager / Verification and Validation Manager, you'll lead the verification, validation, and testing approach for a complex Defence capability.

You'll be responsible for:

- Developing and governing the program's Verification, Validation and Test (V&V) strategy

- Providing technical leadership across all phases of testing

- Driving test readiness and assurance activities

- Partnering with customers, delivery teams, and suppliers to coordinate complex testing activities

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in leading verification, validation, testing, or systems assurance activities, as well as excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Leidos offers various benefits, including flexible work arrangements, wellbeing programs, learning and development opportunities, and career growth paths.

This role requires an Australian citizen with an NV-1 security clearance and the ability to uplift to an NV-2 security clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- verification and validation
- testing and assurance
- technical leadership
- stakeholder management
- complex testing coordination

### Nice to have
- Defence experience
- national security experience
- intelligence experience
- aviation experience
- critical infrastructure experience
- formal qualification experience
- certification experience
- operational test and evaluation experience
- technical assurance experience
- audit activities experience
- customer acceptance programs experience
- Jira experience
- Confluence experience
- HP ALM experience
- ISTQB certification
- Systems Engineering certification
- Quality certification
- Project Management certification

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