Senior Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer (Test Lead)

Raytheon Technologies - Orlando, FL

Full-time - Senior

Orlando, FL

5,001-10,000 employees

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 work closely with our customers to deliver reliable solutions. 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 as intended. This position requires a deep understanding of Vehicle, Space & Communications, and the intelligence needs of end users, applying this knowledge to support their requirements. As a Senior Principal SI&T Engineer, you will be responsible for documenting and defining all test and integration events, ensuring that all test-related requirements, interfaces, and results are clearly understood and tracked. Your responsibilities will include working within an Agile, DEVSecOps environment to support overall test strategy, integrating software and hardware, troubleshooting and debugging issues, and developing automated test scripts. You will also be tasked with generating, reviewing, maintaining, and managing documentation, conducting performance and risk analyses, and leading a team of Systems Integration & Test Engineers to support modernization development. Collaboration across disciplines and levels is essential to ensure the system operates as designed, and you will be expected to communicate status updates and identify potential risks with recommended solutions. Additionally, you will participate in technical interchange meetings with customers and maintain access as required by the program.

Responsibilities

• Support overall test strategy, including plan and procedure development.
• Integrate software and hardware components.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise.
• Develop automated test scripts and execute them.
• Generate, review, maintain, and manage documentation related to testing.
• Conduct performance analysis, risk analysis, and trade studies.
• Lead a team of Systems Integration & Test Engineers in modernization development.
• Define and conduct system integration tests, including data generation and configuration settings.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure system functionality and resolve issues.
• Perform system maintenance as needed.
• Participate in technical interchange meetings (TIMs) with the customer.
• Communicate status to section leads and identify potential risks with recommended solutions.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience as a Lead Systems Integration & Test Engineer.
• Systems Engineering experience on large government programs, preferably ground systems solutions.
• Previous SIGINT experience.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies.
• Familiarity with pipeline development and maintenance tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, and GitLab.
• Experience with manual testing techniques, including writing new procedures and maintaining legacy test procedures.
• Experience with test automation, including script development and root cause analysis using tool suites such as Selenium.
• Expertise in 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
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.