Responsibilities
Responsible for leading design, development, and execution of tests for products (hardware, software, systems) to ensure quality, functionality, reliability, creating test plans, writing test cases, identifying defects and collaborating with development teams for fixes, ultimately ensuring products meet specifications and user needs before delivery.
Lead Test Planning & Design: Understand requirements, define scope, objectives, and resources, then create detailed test plans, strategies, and procedures.
Lead Test Case Development: Write specific test cases and scripts for various tests (functional, performance, security, etc.).
Lead Test Execution: Run tests, monitor the development and production process, and manage controlled testing environments.
Lead Defect Management: Identify, document, report, and track software/hardware and product defects.
Lead Collaboration & Feedback: Work with developers, process engineers, and management to provide insights, suggest improvements, and ensure quality standards are met.
Lead Reporting: Analyze results, document findings, prepare and presenting Test engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers at program milestone reviews.
Interact daily with other technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and other engineers.
Driving tasks to completion independently
Collaborating with others within the workgroup, with other departments, and the customer.
Provide tasking to junior systems engineering team on your program and mentorship to support task completion.
Travel in support of project execution and testing as required, up to 15%.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or related technical field) with 5 or more years related experience or master’s degree in engineering (or related technical field) with 3 or more years related experience or Ph.D. in Engineering (or related technical field) with up to 2 years’ related experience.
Two (2) years demonstrated project leadership experience preferred
Experience with hardware and/or software integration, managing requirements derivation and allocation, or architecture design
Executing test engineering tasks – including (but not limited to) requirements analysis, design review support, formal validation planning, test, verification, risk management, and engineering analysis.
Preparing and presenting test engineering work products – including (but not limited to) test plans, procedures, and reports to internal review teams and external customers.
Serving as a resource to others within the department and the organization.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships with customers and multidisciplinary teams.
Experience with DOORS, JIRA, and MagicDraw (or equivalent) is preferred.
Effective writing and presentation skills.
A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio).
Active Secret Clearance preferred; Secret eligibility required.
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