Leidos is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to provide enterprise-level quality leadership supporting the Integrated Defensive Cyber System (IDCS) portfolio and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) cloud modernization initiatives. This senior role acts as a Quality Engineering authority for defensive cyberspace weapon systems, big data platforms, and mission cloud environments, ensuring delivery excellence and compliance within mission-critical DoD cyber programs.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the portfolio-level Quality Lead, providing enterprise oversight of quality, compliance, and performance governance.
- Provide strategic leadership for Quality Management System (QMS) implementation, sustainment, and continual improvement.
- Drive portfolio-level Risk Management integration, ensuring consistent risk identification, documentation, and mitigation planning.
- Establish and institutionalize a structured Continual Improvement framework for measurable enhancements.
- Lead internal audits, compliance reviews, and performance evaluations to proactively identify systemic issues.
- Conduct and oversee root cause analyses (RCA) for performance or compliance gaps, driving corrective and preventive actions.
- Oversee SLA/KPI performance analytics, leveraging data-driven insights to anticipate risk and reduce variability.
- Leverage enterprise tools and platforms to enhance reporting transparency, operational visibility, and decision support.
- Partner closely with Program Managers, engineering teams, and functional leaders to reinforce operational discipline.
- Proactively identify early risk indicators and prevention opportunities, reinforcing a prevention-first quality culture.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level quality and risk posture briefings to senior leadership and Government stakeholders.
- Mentor and guide junior Quality personnel while fostering strong cross-functional collaboration.
- Contribute to enterprise quality strategy, governance alignment, and portfolio maturity initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with 12+ years of professional experience, or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance (Secret, as required by tasking).
- Experience leading quality functions on large-scale federal IT, cyber, or mission systems programs.
- Proven experience implementing and governing structured Quality Management Systems (QMS) aligned to standards such as ISO 9001 and/or CMMI.
- Experience driving SLA/KPI performance measurement and data-driven performance analytics.
- Experience conducting internal audits and managing corrective and preventive action programs (CAPA/CARs).
- Experience integrating risk management practices within program governance frameworks.
- Working knowledge of modern engineering or DevSecOps environments and the role of quality within those ecosystems.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, and data analysis/reporting tools.
- Experience applying structured process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent).
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting DoD, Air Force, DHS, or Intelligence Community cybersecurity, cyber defense, or mission systems programs.
- ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor certification or equivalent quality auditing credential.
- Experience operating within CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, or comparable process maturity frameworks in complex federal environments.
- ITIL certification and/or experience supporting IT Service Management (ITSM) or enterprise service delivery environments.
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification or demonstrated advanced process improvement leadership.
- Experience briefing Government senior leadership on quality, risk, or performance posture.
- Experience developing portfolio-level quality governance frameworks across large, complex federal programs.
- Experience integrating Risk Management practices within performance-based DoD or federal contracts.
- Experience supporting audit readiness for DoD, Air Force, DHS, USCG, or federal oversight bodies.
- Experience leveraging data analytics, reporting platforms, dashboards, or AI-enabled solutions to enhance mission performance monitoring.
- Working familiarity with DevSecOps, modern software delivery pipelines, Platform One/Cloud One–style environments, or cyber mission ecosystems.
- Experience supporting cyber weapon systems, defensive cyber platforms, or high-assurance mission environments.
- Experience supporting federal cloud modernization initiatives, including USCG or DoD cloud programs.
- Active DoD Secret clearance or higher.
Technical Stack
- SharePoint
- CM repositories
- AI-enabled analytics
- Program governance systems
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Data analysis/reporting tools
Team & Environment
Partners closely with Program Management, Engineering, Cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams. Mentors junior Quality personnel.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
Work Mode
This position offers a hybrid work mode.
Leidos is an equal opportunity employer.
