Software Engineering Test Lead

Job Description

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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
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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 using CMake, 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 analyzers, ASan/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: Google Test, Catch2, pFUnit, pytest). 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 using CMake, platform-specific CI agents, containers/VMs, and test orchestration tooling

• Establish…