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Test Leader Air Traffic Management Tower Systems

Växjö,
Sweden
Closing date: 19 April 2026

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Your role

Do you want to work with managing verification and validation activities of digital Air Traffic Management systems? Our current Test Leader has moved on to new challenges, and we are now looking for a replacement.


This is an independent role for a person with high self-drive, a strong focus on deliveries, and an interest in developing how we verify and validate our products to meet industry standards and expectations.

Working as a Test Leader within Verification and Validation means understanding system behaviour and performance. Your responsibility covers planning, preparation, execution, and reporting of acceptance test outcomes for our products.

The role includes communication in various forms, both internally and externally (with customers, sub-suppliers, and stakeholders). To succeed, you therefore need excellent Swedish and English skills, both verbal and written.

The main tasks are:

  • Define and maintain a common acceptance test workflow for Verification and Validation, from both a product and project perspective

  • Plan and continuously improve our processes, activities, and operations

  • Administer, review, and release test documentation

  • Define documentation standards, primarily for verification results and aggregated reporting

  • Establish guidelines for test design and execution

  • Train and coach development teams within the discipline

  • Participate in release reviews and provide documentation such as Verification Matrices and regression analysis reports

  • Introduce and implement a test automation framework and ways of working adapted to development team preconditions

Your profile

To thrive in this role, you are a self-motivated person with strong communication skills. You collaborate efficiently with both team members and other stakeholders. You are structured, confident, and able to adapt to changing circumstances.
 

You are eager to learn and continuously seek new knowledge, and you have a strong interest in verification and validation of complex systems.

Required skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent work experience in a similar role

  • At least a couple of years of experience in complex system verification

  • Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written

  • Experience in test planning and team coordination

  • Experience in analyzing test results, identifying improvements, fault tracing, and root cause analysis

  • Experience in system usability validation

  • Test and QA experience

Desired skills:

  • Knowledge of DOORS, Jira, GIT, requirements as code

  • Experience in both software and hardware development

  • Understanding of requirements management and compliance work
     

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.


Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here