Principal Test Engineer

$120,001 - $160,000/Yr

SAIC (Science Applications Int.) - Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Colorado Springs, CO

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Test Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Principal Test Engineer is responsible for development and execution of system test solutions in accordance with engineering documentation to ensure test plans and methodologies meet system needs, are accurate, comprehensive, consistent, and complete.

Responsibilities

• Participate, prepare, and execute comprehensive subsystem and enterprise-level test plans and procedures, and support system/element level test planning and test readiness reviews.
• Document test requirements and methodologies in the requirements management system.
• Support the development of system integration plans, procedures and scenarios used in the conduct of software/hardware system integration testing.
• Development of innovative Test Automation solutions and support the software development teams focused on DevSecOps solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelors and nine plus (9+) years' of relevant experience.
• Active Secret Clearance.
• Familiarity or experience with Agile software development methodologies, i.e., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, to include use of Jira and Confluence.
• Experience in using a requirements management tool, such as DOORS.
• Familiarity or experience with continuous integration and deployment environments and tools such as Bamboo.
• Experience with version control tools such as Bitbucket.
• Experience with *ix operating systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience sustaining UEWR and/or PARCS ground based radar systems.
• Experience in writing scripts using scripting languages such as Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, Python, Perl, bash, tcl, etc.