Systems Test Engineer

About the role

The Systems Test Engineer will support the continued development, verification, and qualification of a complex multidisciplinary aerospace and defense hardware system. They will serve as a primary technical integrator for formal system verification testing and will work closely with various engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated system verification test strategy and associated test planning.
• Organize requirements assigned to verification by test into logical and efficient test events to minimize unnecessary duplication of testing.
• Develop formal verification test plans identifying test objectives, applicable requirements, system configuration, operating conditions, resources, instrumentation, required evidence, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and integrate formal test procedures using technical content provided by applicable engineering subject matter experts.
• Review internally and externally generated test procedures to confirm that planned testing adequately addresses assigned verification requirements.
• Carefully coordinate internal and offsite verification testing with engineering teams, test organizations, customer or government facilities, and external test providers.
• Work with engineering subject matter experts to define required operating conditions, measurements, ranges, accuracy, sampling, instrumentation, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate with controls, instrumentation, data acquisition, and test personnel to ensure required measurements and test capabilities are available.
• Conduct or support formal test readiness reviews and verify that required procedures, configurations, instrumentation, personnel, facilities, and technical approvals are in place before testing begins.
• Maintain test configuration control and ensure test evidence can be traced to the specific hardware, software, firmware, and system configuration evaluated.
• Carefully coordinate formal test execution and maintain visibility of deviations, anomalies, incomplete objectives, and test failures.
• Initiate or support failure reporting and corrective action activities associated with verification test failures.
• Evaluate test results, determine root causes where required, and establish appropriate retest activities.
• Develop and integrate formal test results reports using test records, collected data, engineering analyses, and technical conclusions provided by the responsible engineering organizations.
• Ensure test results and artifacts provide sufficient objective evidence to support verification closure.
• Support qualification testing, factory acceptance testing, environmental testing, subsystem testing, system integration testing, demonstrations, and other formal verification activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, or another closely related engineering discipline.
• Three or more years of engineering experience involving complex hardware development, system integration, testing, verification, qualification, or a related technical activity.
• Proficiency with military regulations and standards such as MIL-STD-810 (Environmental Testing), MIL-STD-461 (EMI and EMC electrical testing) and MIL-STD-464 (E3 Testing).
• Experience developing, reviewing, or executing engineering test plans, procedures, or reports.
• Ability to interpret engineering requirements and translate them into practical verification activities.
• Working knowledge of test instrumentation, data acquisition, measurement accuracy, calibration, test configuration, and engineering data analysis.
• Ability to understand multidisciplinary technical systems and work effectively with specialized engineering subject matter experts.
• Strong technical writing skills and experience developing controlled engineering documentation.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to coordinate engineers, technicians, test personnel, vendors, external facilities, and customer representatives.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required due to the nature of the company's work and contractual requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance, as required.