Mission Test Engineer

Join our team as a Mission Test Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and compliance of complex hardware/software systems involved in Signals Intelligence. Your expertise will drive the development and execution of comprehensive test strategies, optimizing testability and delivering reliable, repeatable verification to support development of electronic warfare capabilities. If you’re motivated by measurable outcomes and the challenge of delivering high-quality systems, we want to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Lead the test strategy for complex products, selecting the right mix of manual and automated methods to demonstrate compliance with specifications and standards.
• Design for testability and recommend product and interface characteristics that enable reliable, repeatable verification.
• Translate customer and contractual needs into risk-based test plans, procedures, environments, and schedules that balance technical scope, cost, and timelines.
• Execute and refine the plan by instrumenting environments, analyzing results, and delivering clear readiness and risk reports to drive release and authorization decisions.
• Establish and maintain quality and evaluation processes for hardware, software, and documentation aligned to program requirements.
• Define and track quality metrics; report status, trends, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Identify and mitigate risks or issues related to mission software quality and testing processes.
• Create risk-based test strategies and plans and oversee execution across unit, integration, system, and user acceptance levels.
• Design detailed test procedures for system, functional, regression, performance, load, installation, security, interoperability, stress, and boundary conditions.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and customer acceptance; deliver test reports and communicate results, readiness, and risks for release decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align requirements and define test strategies and validation components, including automation candidates.
• Support Government authorization processes, including test planning, control validation, evidence collection, and system definition approvals.
• Participate in Change or Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Engineering Review Board (ERB) activities, providing test impact analyses, verification plans, and readiness evidence for changes, reviews, and release decisions.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in computer science, engineering, information management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• 3 to 5 or more years’ operational intelligence experience, including applicable military intelligence schools and training courses.
• Experience with targeting and tool development.
• Experience identifying, assessing, and mitigating mission risks across the lifecycle.
• Experience creating and executing risk-based test strategies to validate operational effectiveness.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex test results and technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with workload/project management tools (e.g., Jira).
• Familiarity with the software life cycle, including requirements, design, development, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Must be a US citizen with an active Top Secret/SCI Security clearance.

Skills

• Experience with ELINT and/or FISINT tools and Signal Analysis techniques (desired).
• Experience with data storage systems (desired).

Benefits

• A culture of integrity, placing character and innovation at the center of everything we do.
• An environment of trust, valuing unique contributions and offering autonomy through flexible time off and robust learning resources.
• Focus on continuous growth, advancing critical missions and building on a strong track record of success.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off.

Pay

The proposed salary range for this position is $63,300–$129,700. There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Schedule

• Full time
• Up to 10% travel, primarily within the Continental US