Software Engineering Test Lead

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The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Software Engineering Test Lead to join our Commercial Aviation Training Solutions Team to support the Boeing Global Services (BGS) organization located in Seattle WA.

The Software Engineering Test Lead will drive test strategy automation and verification for our Onboard Performance Tool portfolio. This role leads test planning and execution across cross-platform C/FORTRAN codebases (macOS and Windows) database integrations and customer-facing operational workflows for airplane performance and flight operations. The Test Lead partners with product engineering UX SRE and support teams to ensure high quality reliable releases that meet regulatory and operational needs.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define and own test strategy and quality roadmap for the portfolio: unit integration system regression performance and acceptance testing

• Lead test planning test case design test data management and risk-based coverage mapping tied to product and regulatory requirements

• Architect and implement automated test frameworks and harnesses for C (macOS/Windows) FORTRAN and service/DB layers; select and standardize tools and libraries

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and gate releases; define test gating criteria flaky-test handling and metrics-based quality gates

• Design and run numerical verification tolerance checks and stochastic (Monte Carlo) tests for airplane performance algorithms; establish baselines and golden-reference artifacts

• Lead cross-platform test environments and reproducible build/test infrastructure usingCMake platform-specific CI agents containers/VMs and test orchestration tooling

• Drive performance reliability and scalability test programs: micro-benchmarks worst-case scenario stress tests memory/concurrency analysis and telemetry validation

• Establish requirements-to-test traceability; document V&V artifacts required for audits and regulatory compliance

• Implement static and dynamic analysis tooling in pipelines (static analyzersASan/TSan memory tools) and monitor coverage and code health

• Oversee test data DB migration/rollbacks and SQL query correctness tests; maintain representative datasets and automated reset/cleanup procedures

• Mentor and coach engineers on testable design TDD/BDD practices and test automation best practices; grow QA capabilities across teams

• Lead incident response for test/integration failures define runbooks and coordinate Root Cause Analysis to reduce recurrence

• Track and report QA metrics (test coverage pass rates flakiness cycle time MTTR) and present quality status to stakeholders

• Manage relationships with external vendors/suppliers for test tools or platform services and evaluate licensing and support tradeoffs

Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience):

• 8 years of professional software engineering and testing experience including technical ownership of QA/test practices across the SDLC

• 3 years leading or mentoring engineering/QA teams in technical areas (Test Lead Principal QA Engineer or similar)

• 8 years of experience with test automation frameworks for unit and integration testing (examples:GoogleTestCatch2pFUnitpytest). merge Architect and implement automated test frameworks and harnesses for C (macOS/Windows) FORTRAN and service/DB layers; select and standardize tools and libraries

• Experience track and report QA metrics (test coverage pass rates flakiness cycle time MTTR) and present quality status to stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology) chemistry physics mathematics data science computer science computer engineering software engineering or equivalent

• Practical experience testing and validating numerical/legacy code including FORTRAN integration (or equivalent scientific/numerical validation experience)

• Hands-on experience testing C applications across macOS and Windows platforms

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and gate releases; define test gating criteria flaky-test handling and metrics-based quality gates

• Design and run numerical verification tolerance checks and stochastic (Monte Carlo) tests for airplane performance algorithms; establish baselines and golden-reference artifacts

• Lead cross-platform test environments and reproducible build/test infrastructure usingCMake platform-specific CI agents containers/VMs and test orchestration tooling

• Establish requirements-to-test traceability; document V&V artifacts required for audits and regulatory compliance

• Experience building numerical verification suites tolerance and sensitivity analyses and Monte Carlo test harnesses for performance calculations

• Background in regulated or safety-critical industries (aerospace defense) with experience in V&V documentation and traceability

• Experience with test orchestration across mixed OS CI agents containers and macOS-specific runners

• Familiarity with test coverage tools and dashboards (gcov/lcovCodecov) and SRE/observability tooling for test telemetry

• Prior work with packaging/installer testing and cross-platform installer validation

• Experience with cloud-hosted test infrastructure containerization (Docker) and virtualization for reproducible tests

• Experience with performance/load tools or custom benchmarking frameworks (Google Benchmark custom harnesses)

Leadership & Collaboration Skills

• Ability to lead cross-functional testing efforts and influence engineering and product decisions through data-driven recommendations

• Experience mentoring engineers and building QA capability (processes tooling standards) across multiple teams

• Strong problem solving and risk assessment skills; able to make pragmatic decisions under schedule or technical constraints

• Comfortable presenting QA status risk and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Non-Technical Skills

• Strong organization and prioritization; detail-oriented with a focus on reproducible results

• Excellent communication documentation and defect triage capabilities

• Proactive collaborative and adaptable in a changing product and technology environment

Union:

This is a union-represented position.

Travel:

Less than 5%

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range for Lead Level: $135150 - $182850

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