Senior Test Manager, Systems Integration & Test

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary test team within SEIT, including hardware test engineers, software test engineers, and technicians.
• Own and mature Red 6’s test strategy across integration, qualification, acceptance, verification, validation, manufacturing, and field test activities.
• Develop, execute, and maintain test plans, procedures, test cases, verification artifacts, and reports for Red 6 ATARS products and integrated systems.
• Translate product requirements, system requirements, and customer needs into testable verification methods and objective evidence.
• Lead hardware, software, and integrated system testing from board level through system level, including computer hardware, optical systems, embedded systems, software applications, and related equipment.
• Develop and maintain test environments, tools, infrastructure, and test assets required to support repeatable and scalable testing.
• Partner cross-functionally with hardware, software, systems, mechanical, electrical, optical, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure Red 6 ATARS products are testable and ready for verification.
• Lead anomaly identification, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective action, retest planning, and closure for complex hardware, software, and system-level issues.
• Manage test execution, schedules, priorities, resources, supplier dependencies, and cross-program test activities to support engineering, manufacturing, program, and customer needs.
• Track, analyze, and communicate test results, metrics, risks, and readiness to engineering, product, program, and executive leadership.
• Support technical reviews, field activities, suppliers, vendors, and test labs as needed to execute Red 6 test campaigns, including up to 10% travel.

Experience, Skills, And Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM field such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in test engineering, systems integration and test, verification and validation, embedded systems test, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience leading people, including mentoring, providing technical direction, work prioritization, hiring support, performance feedback, or formal management responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience developing test plans, test procedures, test cases, verification methods, pass/fail criteria, and test reports.
• Experience testing systems from board, component, or subsystem level through integrated system-level test, including functional, qualification, acceptance, and requirements-based testing.
• Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, software-in-the-loop testing, system integration labs, automated testing, manual testing, test equipment, test fixtures, lab instrumentation, debugging tools, and failure-analysis methods.
• Experience supporting hardware product validation, including functional verification, integration readiness, acceptance testing, and manufacturing testing.
• Familiarity with software test methodologies and tools such as Pytest, TestComplete, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, JIRA, Jenkins, GitLab, TestRail, Xray, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with programming or scripting languages such as Python, C++, MATLAB, Bash, or similar languages in support of test automation, data analysis, HIL/SIL development, or test tool development.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues involving hardware, software, firmware, networks, sensors, optics, displays, aircraft interfaces, environmental conditions, or manufacturing processes.
• Experience reviewing system requirements and translating those requirements into testable verification activities while building, improving, or managing test processes, test metrics, test tools, test environments, and test labs.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly report test status, technical risks, schedule impacts, failure-analysis results, and recommended actions to stakeholders.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Preferred / Additional Skills

• Previous work in defense, aerospace, aviation, avionics, mission systems, AR/VR, or synthetic training environments.
• Experience with augmented reality, virtual reality, computer vision, 6 DoF tracking technologies, wearable displays, optical systems, or pilot-facing systems.
• Experience with custom electronics, PCBAs, embedded systems, sensors, optics, display systems, or other mission-critical hardware/software systems.
• Experience with CI/CD testing frameworks, automated regression testing, test fixtures, and test tools for verification, validation, acceptance testing, or manufacturing support.
• Experience supporting qualification, environmental, or compliance testing such as vibration, thermal, EMI/EMC, shock, altitude, humidity, or DO-160-style tests.
• Familiarity with requirements management, test management, AS9100, ISO 9001, and MIL-STD processes.
• Experience supporting SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, SVR, FRR, FCA/PCA, production readiness reviews, or other aerospace and defense lifecycle reviews.
• Experience building or scaling a test organization, test lab, and test capabilities within a small or medium-sized engineering company.