Leidos is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as the Quality Lead supporting the Cybersecurity Portfolio Task Orders for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This role provides enterprise-level quality leadership across multiple task orders, ensuring compliance, performance excellence, and continuous improvement in alignment with contractual requirements and cybersecurity operational standards.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the portfolio-level Quality Lead across multiple DHS cybersecurity task orders, providing enterprise oversight of quality, compliance, and performance governance
- Provide strategic leadership for Quality Management System (QMS) implementation, sustainment, and continual improvement across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, QASP metrics, SLAs, and internal governance standards
- Drive portfolio-level Risk Management integration in coordination with Program Managers and Task Order leadership, ensuring consistent risk identification, documentation, mitigation planning, and trend analysis across all programs
- Establish and institutionalize a structured Continual Improvement framework that promotes measurable enhancements in compliance posture, performance stability, operational efficiency, and organizational maturity
- Lead internal audits, compliance reviews, and performance evaluations to proactively identify systemic issues and ensure sustainable resolution and prevention of recurrence
- Conduct and oversee root cause analyses for performance or compliance gaps, driving corrective and preventive actions through validated closure
- Oversee SLA/KPI performance analytics, leveraging data-driven insights to anticipate risks, reduce performance variability, and strengthening contractual execution
- Leverage enterprise tools and platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Configuration Management repositories, AI-enabled analytics tools, and program governance systems) to enhance reporting transparency, operational visibility, and decision support
- Partner closely with Program Managers and functional leaders to reinforce operational discipline, strengthen governance rigor, and ensure alignment during portfolio transitions or contract structure changes
- Proactively identify areas where early engagement can prevent downstream impacts, reinforcing a prevention-first quality culture
- Prepare and present portfolio quality and risk posture briefings to senior Leidos leadership and DHS stakeholders
- Mentor and provide leadership to junior QA personnel while fostering cross-functional collaboration and professional development
- Contribute to enterprise-level quality strategy development, governance alignment, and portfolio maturity progression initiatives
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 12+ years of professional experience; OR Master's degree with 10+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust
- Demonstrated experience leading quality functions on large-scale federal IT or cybersecurity programs
- Experience implementing and governing structured Quality Management Systems (QMS)
- Experience driving SLA/KPI performance measurement and performance analytics in operational environments
- Demonstrated experience conducting internal audits and managing corrective and preventive action programs
- Experience integrating risk management practices within program governance structures
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and SharePoint
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification (minimum)
- Experience supporting DHS cybersecurity programs (CDM, CISA, CBP, NOSC, or similar mission environments)
- ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor certification
- Experience operating within CMMI-DEV or equivalent process maturity frameworks
- ITIL certification and/or demonstrated experience supporting IT Service Management (ITSM) environments
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification or advanced process improvement leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience briefing government senior leadership on quality, risk, or performance posture
- Experience developing or institutionalizing portfolio-level quality governance frameworks
- Experience integrating Risk Management practices within performance-based federal contracts
- Experience supporting audit readiness for DHS, DoD, or other federal oversight bodies (e.g., OIG, DCMA, internal enterprise audits)
- Experience leveraging data analytics, reporting tools, or AI-enabled solutions to enhance performance monitoring and governance visibility