Mid-Level System Test Engineer

About the role

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Mid-Level System Test Engineer to join a client's team. The role involves providing technical guidance for verification, validation, integration, and mission readiness activities across complex satellite ground system environments.

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute system level test strategies, plans, procedures, and verification artifacts.
• Provide technical guidance that will be used by MDSEA System Engineers to ensure test standardization and performance targets are met.
• Coordinate test activities across multiple vendors, engineering teams, Agile groups, and government stakeholders.
• Manage the Integrated Master Test Schedule (IMTS) for DT/OT events, integration milestones, and readiness reviews.
• Conduct functional, integration, regression, performance, cybersecurity, and end‑to‑end mission system testing.
• Validate software builds, configuration changes, and modifications to enterprise satellite ground system components.
• Test IT infrastructure which includes servers, networks, storage systems, virtualized environments, and mission critical enterprise services.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for seamless integration into a modern DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline to increase test coverage and efficiency.
• Apply familiarity with DevSecOps/DevOps pipelines to support Infrastructure as Code through automated builds, deployments, and integration workflows.
• Identify, document, and track system anomalies, lead defect triage and root cause analyses for complex system issues, and coordinate resolution across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Produce test reports, readiness assessments, risk summaries, and technical briefings for leadership and government stakeholders.
• Support strict configuration management, cybersecurity compliance, and test documentation quality.
• Provide technical test leadership during integration events, readiness reviews, operational demonstrations, and certification milestones.

Requirements

• 6 or more years of general (full‑time) work experience (may be reduced with completion of advanced education).
• 3 or more years of directly related experience in complex enterprise IT system testing and integration, underpinned by a solid foundation in systems engineering principles.
• Experience with enterprise IT infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, virtualization, system services).
• Experience designing or executing test automation solutions.
• Experience coordinating across multiple vendors, engineering teams, Agile environments, and government stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of requirements analysis, verification methodologies, and the Systems Engineering V model.
• Experience decomposing complex systems into testable components.
• Familiarity with Agile practices and secure development workflows.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience with space mission systems or enterprise satellite ground architectures.
• 1 or more relevant DoD 8570 IAT Level II certifications such as Security+.
• Ability to operate independently within classified DoD environments.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Familiar