System Integration and Test Engineer with Security Clearance

We are seeking a System Integration and Test Engineer to deliver a new, complex space and ground system in support of National Security. This exciting and innovative position, located in Chantilly, VA, will leverage best practices in system engineering, via Digital Engineering, MBSE, Agile software development, and DevSecOps processes and technology. This role will require energetic engineers to define and integrate major space systems and associated ground elements from concept into an operational enterprise. The ideal candidate will bring the new space system and the associated ground elements from concept to an operational enterprise. You will support system engineering and integration activities from concept, to development, integration, and transition to an operational enterprise. You will be involved in early program development to inform critical test planning. You will bring a working knowledge of space/ground systems integration and test activities, develop test methodologies and execute tests to verify developed capability meets system requirements. Key Duties/Responsibilities:

Identifying, planning, and executing verification methodologies for complex space and ground systems, and developing required verification plans, procedures and reports

Performing Systems Integration of ground segment and space segment through early integration tests, risk reductions and demonstrations in an Agile DevSecOps environment

Ensuring requirement traceability is established and maintained throughout requirement allocation, verification and validation

Analyze and decompose system requirements to develop detailed test objectives, plans, success criteria, and requirement closure approaches

Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop, review and release verification and validation test plans

Reviewing requirement specification and Interface Control Documents and requests for changes

to determine impacts to verification and validation testing.

Utilize Agile development practices including developing Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) to document and validate system functionality and behavior

Build automation frameworks to increase reuse and reduce effort

Perform analysis and evaluations of system under test. Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures

Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments

Reports and evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities

Oversee and witnessing of space/ground segment-level test and verification events

Supporting system level validation events, interface tests, and end-to-end demonstrations Required Education, Experience and Qualifications:

Bachelors of Science in engineering, science or related technical field with nine (9) years or more experience, or Master's and seven (7) years or more experience

Four (4) years of Systems Engineering experience

Experience in systems integration and systems engineering

Experience in space-ground systems architecture and lifecycle support

Experience in implementing test automation frameworks and processes (e.g. BDD, TDD)

Experience with space-ground testing activities

Experience participating in Operational Assessments

Experience with User Acceptance Testing

Experience with cloud based environment

Experience with DevSecOps development methodologies

Experience writing BDD/Gherkin test cases

Understanding of Software Build process and the CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) environment

Demonstrated ability to work independently and prioritize competing requirements and tasks Desired Qualifications:

Experience with DOORS, Cameo, JIRA and Test Management Tool (e.g. ZephyrScale)

Experience with STK, MATLAB, ModelCenter

Experience using model based system engineering concepts

Experience participating at the Agile Scrum level for sprint planning

Experience developing test automation scripts (e.g. Cucumber/Gherkin, Python)

Permanent