Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer

At Leidos Australia, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring complex systems and solutions perform as intended and meet customer, technical, and operational requirements as a Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer. You'll develop and execute verification and validation plans, procedures, and test activities across the systems engineering lifecycle. This involves translating system and customer requirements into clear, traceable verification methods, test cases, and acceptance criteria. Your responsibilities will also include: Analysing test results, investigating anomalies, and working with systems, software, hardware, and integration engineers to resolve issues and demonstrate compliance. Contributing to requirements traceability, technical reviews, test reporting, and continuous improvement of V&V processes and engineering practices. The Mission Software Systems (MSS) team brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle. They foster 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. Leidos offers various benefits, including: Flex Your Way: Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours. Wellbeing That Matters: Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces. Learn Without Limits: Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities. Work That Makes an Impact: Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter. Build Your Future: Investment in your development every step of the way. The salary range for this role is $136,400.00-$170,500.00. Essential: Experience developing and executing verification and validation plans, procedures, test cases, and reports. Knowledge of systems engineering principles, requirements management, and requirements traceability. Experience analysing test outcomes, identifying defects or non-conformances, and supporting issues through to resolution. Ability to interpret technical requirements and communicate verification outcomes clearly to engineering and program stakeholders. Experience working within structured engineering lifecycles and configuration-controlled environments. Advantageous: Experience with requirements and test management tools such as IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS, Jama Connect, Jira, or similar platforms. Knowledge of systems integration, interface testing, acceptance testing, and formal qualification activities. Experience working on complex, safety-critical, mission-critical, or Defence-related systems. Familiarity with model-based systems engineering, automated testing, or relevant systems engineering standards and practices. This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active NV-1 security clearance. Job Data by YubHub .