Systems Integration and Test Engineer
Location: Aurora, CO.
Required Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
U.S. Citizenship Mandatory: Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen and will be subject to a background investigation.
Job Description:
We are seeking a Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join our Engineering team in Aurora, Colorado for the role of an Integration and Test Engineer. In Systems Integration and Test (SI&T) we integrate, verify, and validate our products. We put our systems together, exercise them in the lab or in the field, measure and analyze performance, and make sure our products work the first time and every time. To accomplish this, we develop plans and procedures, debug and evaluate system functions and interfaces, develop test environments, and work hand-in-hand with our customers.
Job Responsibilities:
- In this role, you will work with a cross-disciplinary team of engineers who are leading the industry in ground systems solutions.
- Supports the Product Owner in completing tasks for Features and Capabilities requested by the government in support of government-led test events.
- Assists the Product Owner and Team in planning the team’s scope to complete them efficiently during each program increment.
- Supporting various government-led enterprise mission events, supporting team’s backlog, supporting the team during program increment planning, being involved the team’s capacity, participating in retrospectives to continuously improve after each program increment, elaborating and developing test plans and procedures, addressing/prioritizing issues as found in the system, and identifying results.
- Participates in various program reviews and presentations to the customer as well as senior program management.
- Support the Product Owner that oversees and provides daily directions to the assigned Product Team.
- Helps to manage the team’s backlog and capacity during each program increment.
- Plan and support various customer-led mission test events.
- Regularly interact with the End-User by managing and nurturing the business relationship, managing expectations vs. scope of contract, proactively addressing emerging needs, and identifying results.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and align Product Team’s priorities with Test Cross Product Lead.
- Works independently, determines & develops approach to solutions.
- Willingness to travel in support of offsite testing and meetings.
- Work in an Agile program environment.
- Work in a classified lab on site in Aurora, Colorado and at customer sites.
Required Skills:
- Typically requires a Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant systems integration and test experience.
- 5+ years’ experience with systems engineering lifecycle.
- Experience developing test procedures that exercise internal interfaces between applications, Experience with systems engineering principles and activities, Experience testing software running on Linux based operating systems, Experience integrating, troubleshooting, problem isolation of software/containerized applications.
- Experience developing test procedures and tools that capture performance-based metrics in support of requirement sell-off.
- Experience in system, software and hardware development lifecycle models (waterfall and Agile).
Desired Skills:
- Experience in Systems Integration and/or Test Engineering experience on a prototype/pursuit program.
- Experience in Systems Engineer process development and deployment.
- Experience working in an Agile or DevOps development environment.
- Experience using CI/CD, pipelines and container-based dev sec ops tools; gitlab, jenkins, artifactory, nexus, junit, pytest, sonarcube, coverity, docker, helm, harbor.
- Experience using acceptance test driven development, test driven development and behavior driven development methodologies and tools, cucumber, cypress, zephyr, java, python.
- Experience as a Product Owner.
- Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools or similar tools; CameoEA, Jira, Confluence, ZephyrScale, Syndea.
ITEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup Public Sector.
