Senior Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer (Test Lead)

Raytheon Technologies - Birmingham, AL

Full-time - Senior

Birmingham, AL

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Raytheon, we are committed to helping our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. With over 100 years of experience, we leverage our renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's missions and stay ahead of tomorrow's threats. Our Systems Integration and Test (SI&T) team plays a crucial role in integrating, verifying, and validating our products to ensure they perform effectively in real-world scenarios. We develop comprehensive plans and procedures, debug and evaluate system functions and interfaces, and create test environments that allow us to measure and analyze performance. Our goal is to ensure that our products work flawlessly from the first attempt. We are currently seeking a Senior Principal Systems Integration & Test (SI&T) Engineer to join our team in Aurora, Colorado. In this role, you will collaborate with program management and various teams to ensure that user and system functions operate correctly. This position requires a deep understanding of Vehicle, Space & Communications, and the intelligence needs of end users. You will assist in documenting and defining all test and integration events, ensuring that all test-related requirements, interfaces, and results are clearly understood and tracked. The successful candidate will be adept at gathering artifacts and analyzing results to support our mission. As part of the SI&T team, you will work in an Agile, DEVSecOps environment, contributing to the overall test strategy, including the development of plans and procedures. Your responsibilities will include integrating software and hardware, troubleshooting and debugging issues, developing automated test scripts, and managing documentation. You will also conduct performance and risk analyses, lead a team of Systems Integration & Test Engineers, and define and execute system integration tests. Collaboration across disciplines and effective communication with stakeholders will be essential to ensure the system operates as designed and to address any issues that arise.

Responsibilities

• Support overall test strategy, including plan and procedure development
• Integrate software and hardware
• Troubleshoot and debug issues
• Develop automated test scripts and execute them
• Generate, review, maintain, and manage documentation
• Conduct performance analysis, risk analysis, and trade studies
• Lead a team of Systems Integration & Test Engineers to support modernization development
• Define and conduct system integration tests, including data generation, configuration settings, and test execution
• Collaborate across disciplines and at all levels to ensure the system operates as designed
• Participate in technical interchange meetings (TIMs) with the customer
• Communicate status to section leads and identify potential risks with recommended solutions
• Obtain and maintain access as required by the program

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
• Minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience in System Integration and Test, including defining and conducting integration scope
• Experience generating test data, configuration settings, and test planning and execution
• Ability to communicate status, results, and recovery plans to key stakeholders
• Direct interactions with external customers
• Experience with systems and requirements in a test environment
• Experience with the Atlassian Suite, including Jira and Confluence
• Experience with GitLab Pipeline Automated Testing
• Experience working in Java development
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance prior to start date

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience working as a Lead Systems Integration & Test Engineer
• Systems Engineering experience on a large government program, preferably for ground systems solutions
• Previous SIGINT experience
• Experience with Agile and DevOps
• Experience with pipeline development and maintenance, and associated tools (such as Jenkins/Bitbucket/Gitlab)
• Experience with manual testing techniques including writing new procedures from scratch
• Experience with test automation including script development and root cause analysis
• Expertise with troubleshooting complex software systems and developing issue closure plans

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Holidays