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Engineer Systems Test
| Company | Northrop Grumman |
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| Location | Hill AFB, UT, USA |
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| Salary | $70200 – $105400 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelors of Science degree with 2 years of relevant experience; or 0 years of relevant work experience with a Masters degree
- US Citizenship with an Active Secret Clearance or higher (awarded within the past 6 years) with the ability to receive a Special Access Program (SAP) certification.
- Knowledge of system integration and test principles and processes
- Experience supporting the development, plan, and execution of test plans and/or reporting
- Basic Knowledge of systems engineering principles including requirement decomposition and allocation of requirements.
Responsibilities
- Develop customer contractual needs and requirements into test solutions that acknowledges technical schedule and cost constraints.
- Develop and direct preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules.
- Review and evaluate test requirements for completeness of test program.
- Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts, Element Test teams, System Test teams, and other stakeholders to identify test objectives, test requirements, and risks that require test to mitigate.
- Supporting development of instrumentation requirements for Hardware in the Loop testing.
- Identify test support requirements and coordinate with Design & Integration team for budget and personnel needs.
- Overseeing test activities in support or requirement verification and validation.
- Conduct daily briefing and approve test start for each test event.
- Approve Break of Configuration on the test floor.
- Conduct table top reviews and dry run test procedures with test team prior to execution.
- Coordinate and conduct Technical and Safety Review Boards, and Test Readiness Reviews.
- Support customer Test Plan Working Groups.
- Prepare Test Planning Team charters.
- Coordinate with Quality organization for test support.
- Review and approve major test amendments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of Model Based System Engineering principles, working experience with CAMEO
- Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to define test objectives and requirements for test activities in a hardware in the loop lab.
- Knowledge/experience with AF Test Directive 99-103
- Experience with ICBMs (MM, PK, Small Missile) or DOD programs
- Knowledge/Experience with IBM DOORS database
- Support the generation of test procedures and test readiness reviews (TRRs)
- Strong background of test instrumentation
- Creation of test Concept of Operations (ConOps) flows that maximizes the utility of test resources while meeting schedule and technical requirements and/or constraints
- Generate and support test data decomposition and test reports to other IPTs.
- Assist in consolidating and processing of final test data for requirements verification/model validation sign-off
- Strong understanding of entire product lifecycle, modeling and engineering best practices.
