Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer within our Systems Engineering organization to lead the planning, design, execution, and assessment of V&V activities that demonstrate requirements compliance across a large-scale federal program. In Peraton's role as a systems integrator, this position carries a distinct responsibility: you must prove not only that individual components meet their allocated requirements, but that the integrated system — assembled from independently developed vendor, subcontractor, and custom components — satisfies the full requirements baseline as a unified whole.
Verification and validation in an integration environment is where the gap between "each part works" and "the whole system works" is closed. You will design verification architectures that define what evidence is needed at each level of integration, determine which verification methods apply to which requirements, and ensure that the accumulated evidence — from component-level vendor testing through system-level integration verification to operational validation — forms a complete, auditable chain of compliance. You will be the engineer who can definitively answer: "Does this integrated system do what it was required to do, and is it ready for its mission?"
This postion will be located in Herndon, VA.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Verification and Validation Plan, defining V&V strategies, methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration), success criteria, and the mapping of verification events to requirements across the integrated system
- Design the verification architecture for multi-vendor integrated systems — defining what is verified at the component level by individual providers, what must be verified at the integration level by Peraton as the integrator, and what is validated at the system and operational levels
- Define verification methods and success criteria for each requirement in the integrated baseline, ensuring that every requirement has a clear, achievable path to objective evidence of compliance
- Develop V&V schedules and resource plans aligned with systems engineering lifecycle milestones (TRR, FCA/PCA) and integration events, ensuring verification readiness at each gate
- Establish V&V standards and procedures that govern how verification evidence is produced, documented, reviewed, and accepted — across internal teams, subcontractors, and vendor organizations
- Design and develop verification procedures — test cases, analysis plans, inspection criteria, and demonstration scenarios — that provide objective evidence of requirements compliance for each configuration item and for the integrated system as a whole
- Develop integration verification scenarios that specifically target cross-vendor interfaces, end-to-end data flows, timing dependencies, error handling, and emergent behaviors that cannot be verified by any single vendor in isolation
- Lead and support integration verification events — integration test, system test, regression test, and formal qualification — ensuring that multi-vendor components function correctly together
- Conduct requirements-based verification coverage analysis to identify gaps in verification evidence, untested requirements, and areas of residual risk across the integrated program
- Design negative verification scenarios, boundary condition tests, and fault injection approaches that stress the integrated system beyond nominal conditions to expose fragility at integration boundaries
- Plan and execute validation activities that demonstrate the integrated system meets its intended mission and operational needs — distinct from verification of individual requirements
- Develop operational validation scenarios that exercise the system under realistic mission conditions, including user acceptance criteria, mission thread execution, and operational stress cases
- Collaborate with government stakeholders and end users to define validation success criteria that reflect true operational readiness, not just specification compliance
- Assess residual risk after verification closure — identifying requirements with marginal evidence, areas of verification uncertainty, and operational scenarios not fully covered by the V&V program
- Review and assess vendor and subcontractor V&V artifacts — test reports, analysis results, inspection records, and demonstration evidence — to determine whether they provide sufficient, credible evidence of compliance with allocated requirements
- Evaluate the adequacy of vendor verification methods — ensuring that component-level testing performed by subcontractors is rigorous enough to support integration-level verification assumptions
- Maintain the verification cross-reference matrix (VCRM), linking every requirement to its verification method, verification event, responsible party, and status (open, in progress, closed, waived)
- Support functional and physical configuration audits (FCA/PCA) by providing verification closure documentation, compliance evidence packages, and traceability to baselined requirements
- Generate V&V metrics and reports — verification progress, closure rates, open verification actions, residual risk, and validation readiness — for program leadership, government stakeholders, and engineering teams
- Collaborate with requirements traceability and integration engineers to ensure that the requirements baseline is verifiable, that traceability supports verification planning, and that changes to requirements trigger appropriate re-verification
- Work with test engineers to ensure that test execution activities produce evidence that satisfies verification requirements — bridging the gap between test planning (how to execute) and V&V planning (what evidence is needed and why)
- Coordinate with cybersecurity teams to ensure that security requirements have defined verification methods and that security control assessments are integrated into the broader V&V framework
- Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR) to evaluate verification readiness, method feasibility, and evidence sufficiency at each lifecycle milestone
- Translate complex V&V results, compliance status, and residual risk into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership, government customers, and non-technical audiences
- Mentor and guide V&V analysts, test engineers, and subcontractor verification staff in V&V methodology, evidence standards, and verification architecture principles
