Digital Thread Test Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide enterprise-level leadership in testing across PLM, MES, ERP, enterprise integrations, and reporting functionalities.

• Manage the complete testing strategy and lifecycle for multiple concurrent technology initiatives.

• Establish testing standards, coordinate multidisciplinary testing teams and stakeholders, and evaluate release readiness and associated risks.

• Develop and uphold testing strategies, plans, procedures, schedules, and criteria for success.

• Define methodologies for component, system, integration, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.

• Convert functional and technical requirements into traceable test cases and acceptance criteria.

• Establish and maintain enterprise-level testing standards, processes, templates, and governance protocols.

• Collaborate with project, functional, technical, infrastructure, cybersecurity, supplier, and business teams to ensure test readiness.

• Lead and coordinate testing efforts across digital thread capabilities.

• Oversee test execution and ensure adherence to approved plans, procedures, requirements, and acceptance criteria.

• Manage tester assignments, responsibilities, access, environments, test data, and prerequisite activities.

• Oversee defect identification, documentation, prioritization, retesting, and closure processes.

• Evaluate test results, unresolved defects, and risks to advise on release readiness.

• Ensure test evidence and results are comprehensive, accurate, traceable, and properly retained.

• Develop and present test status, results, risks, defects, and readiness assessments to program leadership and stakeholders.

• Effectively communicate complex technical findings to technical, business, and executive audiences.

• Conduct post-test reviews, debriefs, and lessons-learned sessions.

• Analyze testing results and defect trends to pinpoint systemic issues and opportunities for improvement.

• Refine testing methodologies, processes, tools, metrics, and automation practices.

• Assess and facilitate the responsible integration of artificial intelligence and automation within testing processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field with 12–15 years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 10–13 years of relevant experience.

• Additional relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree as permitted by the applicable job profile.

• Extensive experience in developing and executing test strategies and plans for complex enterprise applications or integrated systems.

• Proven experience in leading system, integration, regression, user acceptance, and release-readiness testing.

• Demonstrated skill in managing requirements-to-test traceability, defects, test evidence, and acceptance criteria.

• Experience coordinating testing efforts among multidisciplinary technical, functional, supplier, and business teams.

• Ability to analyze complex system behaviors, integration dependencies, and defects spanning multiple applications.

• Proven ability to communicate technical risks, results, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership.

• Experience leading technical efforts across multiple concurrent projects or programs.

• Preferred: Experience in testing Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), ERP, or integrated manufacturing and engineering systems.

• Preferred: Familiarity with iBase-t Solumina MES, PTC Windchill PLM, Deltek Costpoint ERP, eQube-MI, or eQube-BI.

• Preferred: Experience validating end-to-end transactions and data flows across PLM, MES, ERP, and middleware platforms.

• Preferred: Working knowledge of SQL Server, Oracle, SQL querying, relational databases, and enterprise data structures.

• Preferred: Experience with automated testing frameworks, test management platforms, and requirements management tools.

• Preferred: Experience applying artificial intelligence or intelligent automation to software testing and quality assurance.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting aerospace, defense, regulated manufacturing, or other mission-critical environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plan with company match.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.