We are seeking a System Integration and Test Engineer to deliver a new, complex space and ground system in support of National Security. This exciting and innovative position, located in Chantilly, VA, will leverage best practices in system engineering, via Digital Engineering, MBSE, Agile software development, and DevSecOps processes and technology. This role will require energetic engineers to define and integrate major space systems and associated ground elements from concept into an operational enterprise. The ideal candidate will bring the new space system and the associated ground elements from concept to an operational enterprise. You will support system engineering and integration activities from concept, to development, integration, and transition to an operational enterprise. You will be involved in early program development to inform critical test planning. You will bring a working knowledge of space/ground systems integration and test activities, develop test methodologies and execute tests to verify developed capability meets system requirements. Key Duties/Responsibilities:
Identifying, planning, and executing verification methodologies for complex space and ground systems, and developing required verification plans, procedures and reports
Performing Systems Integration of ground segment and space segment through early integration tests, risk reductions and demonstrations in an Agile DevSecOps environment
Ensuring requirement traceability is established and maintained throughout requirement allocation, verification and validation
Analyze and decompose system requirements to develop detailed test objectives, plans, success criteria, and requirement closure approaches
Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop, review and release verification and validation test plans
Reviewing requirement specification and Interface Control Documents and requests for changes
to determine impacts to verification and validation testing.
Utilize Agile development practices including developing Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) to document and validate system functionality and behavior
Build automation frameworks to increase reuse and reduce effort
Perform analysis and evaluations of system under test. Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures
Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments
Reports and evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities
Oversee and witnessing of space/ground segment-level test and verification events
Supporting system level validation events, interface tests, and end-to-end demonstrations Required Education, Experience and Qualifications:
Bachelors of Science in engineering, science or related technical field with nine (9) years or more experience, or Master's and seven (7) years or more experience
Four (4) years of Systems Engineering experience
Experience in systems integration and systems engineering
Experience in space-ground systems architecture and lifecycle support
Experience in implementing test automation frameworks and processes (e.g. BDD, TDD)
Experience with space-ground testing activities
Experience participating in Operational Assessments
Experience with User Acceptance Testing
Experience with cloud based environment
Experience with DevSecOps development methodologies
Experience writing BDD/Gherkin test cases
Understanding of Software Build process and the CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) environment
Demonstrated ability to work independently and prioritize competing requirements and tasks Desired Qualifications:
Experience with DOORS, Cameo, JIRA and Test Management Tool (e.g. ZephyrScale)
Experience with STK, MATLAB, ModelCenter
Experience using model based system engineering concepts
Experience participating at the Agile Scrum level for sprint planning
Experience developing test automation scripts (e.g. Cucumber/Gherkin, Python)
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