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About the Team
You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.
Mission Software Systems (MSS) brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle, from planning through to dissemination and feedback. The team fosters a culture of innovation, leveraging modern engineering practices and shared infrastructure to rapidly build, test, and deploy software solutions across a range of environments, including cloud. MSS also plays a key role in advancing technology modernisation within Government, delivering scalable and adaptable solutions for complex enterprise challenges.
The Opportunity
In this role, you will lead test planning, governance and delivery across complex systems and integrated environments. You will coordinate test resources, environments, data and dependencies to provide confidence that solutions meet functional, technical and operational requirements.
Develop the test strategy, master test plan, schedules, entry and exit criteria, and reporting framework.
Coordinate functional, system, integration, performance, security and user acceptance testing across delivery teams.
Manage defects, test risks, environment constraints and dependencies, ensuring issues are clearly prioritised and escalated.
Provide evidence-based reporting on test progress, coverage, quality and release readiness.
Develop capabilities for both procedural and automated testing.
About You
You understand how to establish proportionate test governance while keeping delivery moving. You can coordinate multiple stakeholders, interpret technical evidence and provide an objective view of solution readiness.
Essential
Experience managing testing across complex technology, engineering or transformation programs.
Capability in test strategy, planning, estimation, execution oversight and reporting.
Knowledge of functional, integration, system and acceptance testing approaches.
Experience managing defects, traceability, test environments, data and release dependencies.
Ability to lead test teams and coordinate vendors, engineers and business representatives.
Ability to communicate quality risks and readiness recommendations to governance forums.
Advantageous
Experience with ASDEFCON testing programs.
Experience with test automation, performance testing or service virtualisation.
Relevant testing certification or qualification.
Exposure to large-scale systems integration or regulated environments.
This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active NV-1 security clearance.
Due to the nature of our work, applicants must be Australian Citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role.
Certain roles may be subject International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements which may limit persons who hold dual nationality with certain proscribed countries from accessing material, or in the case of dual Australian-U.S citizens, may require the candidate to obtain a U.S. Persons Abroad authorisation from the U.S DDTC.
If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. We value different experiences and are interested in the capability and potential you could bring.
What to Expect When You Apply
Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:
An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel
Any role-specific assessment, technical discussion or customer step required for the position
We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.
Ready to explore what’s possible?
If this sounds like a role where you can make an impact and continue to grow, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply via the “Apply Now” button with your resume. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Praveena Sundarakumar, Talent Acquisition.
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Original Posting
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
