About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life. Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter. Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:

- 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 to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
- 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, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
- And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

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

As a Verification & Validation (V&V;) Engineer, you will play an important role in ensuring complex systems and solutions perform as intended and meet customer, technical and operational requirements. Working within a team-oriented engineering environment, you will:

- Develop and execute verification and validation plans, procedures and test activities across the systems engineering lifecycle.
- Translate system and customer requirements into clear,



traceable verification methods, test cases and acceptance criteria.
- Analyse test results, investigate anomalies and work with systems, software, hardware and integration engineers to resolve issues and demonstrate compliance.
- Contribute to requirements traceability, technical reviews, test reporting and continuous improvement of V&V; processes and engineering practices.

About You

You will bring experience in verification and validation activities within a systems, software, defence or similarly complex engineering environment, with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

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 syste

📌 V&V Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 00160 Leidos Australia
📍 Melbourne