Requirements V&V Engineer

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer within our Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) Architecture and Systems Engineering group to perform and support V&V activities that demonstrate requirements compliance across a large-scale federal program. As a key contributor on a multi-vendor systems integrator program, you will work alongside the lead systems engineer and broader engineering team to ensure that the integrated system — spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems components assembled from independently developed vendor, subcontractor, and custom solutions — satisfies the full requirements baseline as a unified whole. Where the Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer defines and owns the baseline, this role proves compliance against it — closing every requirement with objective, auditable evidence. 

You will be part of a team responsible for system-of-systems integration, requirements traceability and integrity across the program, V&V support, and the development of program-wide standards and templates. This is a hands-on senior engineering role — you will be expected to own assigned tasks, operate independently, and produce high-quality V&V artifacts and results. You will bring both strategic thinking and hands-on engineering judgment to the role — contributing to verification planning, method definition, evidence assessment, and compliance determination. You may also lead V&V activities when the situation calls for it. 

This position requires full-time, on-site presence in Herndon, VA.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the V&V Plan, standards, procedures, and templates — defining methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration), success criteria, and verification event mappings across internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors 

• Define and apply verification methods and acceptable evidence criteria for requirements in the integrated baseline, assessing each requirement for verifiability before verification planning begins 

• Define the multi-tier verification approach — establishing verification standards at component, integration, and system/operational levels, including procedures, negative testing, boundary conditions, and fault injection 

• Conduct requirements-based verification coverage analysis to identify gaps, untested requirements, and residual risk; evaluate and formally close verification evidence against requirements and document closure rationale in the VCRM 

• Support integration verification events — integration test, system test, regression test, and formal qualification — ensuring procedures are sound, evidence meets compliance standards, and components are verified against the correct requirements 

• Plan and support validation activities demonstrating the integrated system meets its intended mission and operational needs; develop operational validation scenarios including mission thread execution and stress cases 

• Assess residual risk after verification closure — identifying requirements with marginal evidence, verification uncertainty, or insufficient operational coverage 

• Review and assess vendor and subcontractor V&V artifacts — test reports, analysis results, inspection records, and demonstration evidence — for sufficiency, credibility, and compliance; maintain the VCRM linking every requirement to its method, event, responsible party, and closure status 

• Generate V&V metrics and reports — verification progress, closure rates, open actions, residual risk, and validation readiness — for program leadership and government stakeholders; ensure closure documentation is audit-ready for FCA/PCA 

• Collaborate with the Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer and broader program team — including test engineers, cybersecurity teams, architects across enterprise, solutions, software, and cloud disciplines, quality assurance, workstream leads, and other program stakeholders — to ensure the full requirements baseline, including enterprise architecture artifacts and all requirement types, is verifiable, traceability supports verification planning, and requirements changes trigger timely re-verification 

• Interface with both internal program stakeholders and external government customers to communicate V&V status, present compliance determinations, and drive alignment on open verification issues 

• Contribute to the program's digital twin initiative by defining V&V approaches for model-based and simulation-based verification, establishing evidence standards for digital twin environments, and ensuring model-generated evidence is traceable in the VCRM 

• Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR) to assess verification feasibility, method adequacy, and evidence sufficiency; translate V&V results and residual risk into clear guidance for leadership and mentor junior V&V staff 

Required Qualifications 

• US Citizenship
• Public Trust Clearance — Ability to Obtain and Maintain 

• 15+ years of experience in verification and validation, systems engineering, or quality assurance within large-scale programs 

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree) 

• Demonstrated expertise in V&V within a systems integrator environment — with the engineering judgment to independently assess evidence sufficiency, determine compliance, and define verification standards across multi-vendor, multi-technology integrated solutions spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems 

• Deep expertise in V&V methodology — verification planning, method selection (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration), acceptable evidence definition, success criteria, and compliance determination — applied to complex system-of-systems, mission-critical, or enterprise-scale environments 

• Strong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle from mission-level concept through system, subsystem, and component-level requirements, including the V&V activities and artifacts required at each formal review milestone (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA) 

• Proven experience building and maintaining VCRMs, performing requirements-based verification coverage analysis, and resolving verification gaps and conflicts across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor environments 

• Strong command of requirements management tools — IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, or equivalent — for requirements-to-verification traceability and coverage analysis; familiarity with Jama Connect is particularly relevant to this program 

• Hands-on experience assessing vendor and subcontractor verification evidence for sufficiency, credibility, and compliance; experience planning and executing validation activities that demonstrate operational mission readiness beyond individual requirement compliance 

• Experience supporting federal or DoD programs with complex multi-contractor V&V coordination challenges in mission-critical or safety-critical environments where verification rigor directly impacts operational reliability 

• Working knowledge of federal frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, RMF) as they generate verification obligations and security assessment requirements 

• Familiarity with model-based and simulation-based verification concepts — understanding how digital twin environments, SysML/UAF models, or simulation outputs can serve as credible, auditable verification evidence and how that evidence is traced to requirements 

• Familiarity with ITSM and configuration management workflows and how V&V activities align within them; ITIL certification is a plus but not required 

• Proven ability to collaborate across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Prior experience with V&V for air traffic management ground systems, NAS infrastructure, FAA automation systems, or safety-critical ground-based systems, including familiarity with applicable standards such as RTCA DO-278A or FAA ATC system safety requirements 

• Background in systems integration V&V on large federal or defense programs — verifying integrated systems spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems boundaries across multiple vendors or contractors; experience in formal T&E environments (DT and/or OT) with a clear understanding of the distinction between verification and operational validation 

• Background in safety-critical systems V&V where verification rigor, evidence standards, and compliance documentation directly impact mission safety and operational certification 

• Experience with MBSE and digital twin environments — generating verification criteria from SysML/UAF models, using simulation outputs as verification evidence, and integrating model-based evidence into the VCRM alongside traditional test and analysis results 

• Experience with automated verification and continuous compliance monitoring within DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines — linking automated evidence back to requirements for real-time verification status 

• Familiarity with AI-assisted V&V — intelligent coverage analysis, predictive compliance risk identification, and automated evidence assessment 

• Experience with real-time systems, low-latency architectures, and the unique verification challenges they present (timing analysis, determinism, fault tolerance verification) 

• Relevant certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP, ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, TOGAF, or CSQA 

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