Jr Test Engineer

The Homeland and Force Protection Business Area is looking for a Test Engineer to support Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS) projects with our Air Force customer. Our team is focused on providing engineering and integration support throughout the entire kill chain to 20+ C-sUAS sites globally. The primary project focus for this role is a C-sUAS integration effort in the National Capital Region (NCR). As a Test Engineer, the ideal candidate will be capable of executing independent projects and collaborating with a variety of teams consisting of customer and Leidos personnel. The candidate will be responsible for technical tasks including but not limited to test development, system integration and acceptance testing. This position will require close coordination with program management, engineering staff, base personnel and customer stakeholders.

**The Test Engineer must be local to the Greater Boston area to provide onsite support as needed at the customer and Leidos facilities. Limited travel to the National Capital Region will also be required. **

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate integration and test execution by defining objectives, creating a plan and timeline, coordinating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring overall success

• Provide support to the IPT for system hardware-software-network design, development, integration and site installation

• Develop detailed procedures for evaluation processes to ensure thorough appraisal and validation

• Conduct assessments to ensure that different components of a system work together as intended

• Evaluate the responsiveness, stability, and scalability of systems under various conditions

• Conduct comprehensive examinations to verify the functionality and performance of structures

• Identify and resolve technical issues that arise within a complex system or network infrastructure

• Monitor and inspect products, processes, or services to ensure compliance with quality standards, specifications, and regulatory requirements.

• Author and review technical documentation

• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders

• Coordinate with Leidos PMO and customer stakeholders to prioritize tasks

• Manage multiple assignments, handle changing priorities, and work independently

• Able to perform in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams

• Must be able to occasionally work in classified environments, as well as customer locations

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree and four (4)+ years of prior relevant experience or MS with two (2) + years of prior relevant experience

• Must be a US Citizen

• Must possess and maintain an active SECRET clearance

• Must have experience planning and executing integration and system testing for hardware and software projects

• Minimum 4+ years of software and hardware testing experience. 

• Experience analyzing technical requirements for validity, feasibility and technical soundness and decompose them to extract positive and negative test scenarios and strong acceptance criteria.

• Experience designing functional and non-functional test cases that verify requirements and validate functionality.

• Experience planning and executing Test Readiness Reviews

• Experience in Acceptance Testing

• Experience documenting and presenting test results

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with C-sUAS systems integration and test

• Part 107 Drone License

• Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler (CSM)

• Experience working with AF customer

Original Posting:May 1, 2025

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:Pay Range $57,850.00 - $104,575.00

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.