Sr. Specialist, Integration/Test Engineer

- Mid Level

Dahlgren, VA

About the position

L3Harris Space Superiority group has an opening for a Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The individual will work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and a collaborative team setting. This position will support the test effort for development of multiple ground-based mission systems and operations center from program inception to test verification and deployment. The Specialist Integration & Test Engineer will define complex test strategies to verify mission capabilities while working with a team comprised of multiple internal organizations and subcontractors for the full integration and test of the mission system. The test engineer will be a point-of-contact for the government customer for test planning and will coordinate across government and stakeholder offices to define the test and evaluation plan.

Responsibilities

• Implement strategic goals established by project leadership
• Strong communication skills with internal team, customers, and vendors
• System Integration and Test engineer responsible for the assembly, integration, and testing of System Under Test (SUT) software and hardware components
• Execute all levels of testing (Integration, System and Acceptance)
• Configure and maintain production-like test environments
• I&T support overseeing subcontractors
• System Level I&T for developed control processing
• Testing and troubleshooting issues
• Documenting issues into bug tracking tool
• Develop test plans, test cases, and testing scripts for manual and automated testing, maintain testing records, document and report discovered problems
• Advocate for test priorities in daily scrum meetings and sprint planning
• Clear and concise documentation of software issues
• Collaborate closely with the SW development team
• Analyze user stories/use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility
• Lead test development and peer review activities with little supervision. Ensure complete and accurate test coverage. Create test to requirement traceability matrix.
• Attend and participate in project planning and execution meetings as required
• Ability to travel up to 15%

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Active Secret clearance or Top Secret/SCI clearance
• Agile or DevOps methodology experience

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) utilizing MagicDraw
• Experience with Software test automation tools (EggPlant highly preferred)
• Familiarity with all phases of the software development life cycle
• Proficient experience with JIRA, Confluence, and/or equivalent applications
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Able to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and/or standard accepted practices