Systems Integration & Test Engineer - Level 3/4

About the role

The Central Region Systems Engineering organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

Responsibilities

• Maintain clear installation, integration, and test documentation in Confluence to support team-wide knowledge sharing.
• Develop and direct preparation and execution of comprehensive integration, regression, and system test plans, procedures, and schedules, accounting for technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Review and evaluate system and subsystem requirements for testability; synthesize customer contractual needs into test solutions and ensure completeness of the overall test program.
• Cook up and direct execution of integrated and end-to-end testing activities with software developers, systems engineers, and external mission partners.
• Analyze test results and system performance; prepare formal test reports and system-level evaluations that verify and validate requirements.
• Work independently with minimal direction while maintaining strong organization and attention to detail in all integration and test activities.

Requirements

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application and willingness to sit for a polygraph examination up to the Full Scope level.
• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 1 years of relevant experience with a PhD. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to utilize and manage tools such as Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Word).
• Experience with Factory Acceptance Testing and Site Acceptance Testing.
• Familiarity with both Window and Linux environments.
• Experience developing and executing test plans, procedures, and posttest reports, including functional testing and checkout.
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot anomalous behavior in hardware and software systems.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications for a Systems Integration Engineer - Level 3: Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 1 years of relevant experience with a PhD. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Basic Qualifications for a Systems Integration Engineer - Level 4: Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience; 6 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 4 years of relevant experience with a PhD. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Skills

• Understanding Docker concepts with use of Kubernetes clusters and Rancher.
• Experience with Helm/ Helmfile.
• Experience with Git for source code management.
• Ability to provide E2 support by fielding calls from operations, deployment and external mission partner for system operational issues.
• Rapidly, resolve any issues that arise and escalate to support personnel, i.e. System Administrator or RF engineers; if needed.

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00 Secondary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00