Test Engineer

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Test Engineer to support our contract under Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) out of Stafford, VA. The Test Engineer will leverage their strong technical background and knowledge to support Marine Corps test and evaluation efforts, ensuring system requirements are validated, tested, and documented across all phases of the program lifecycle.

Job Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Reviewing and maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure system requirements are adequately traced to verification methods, test events, test procedures, and results.
• Coordinating with applicable test centers, program stakeholders, system engineering personnel, contractors, and other test organizations to support test planning and execution.
• Supporting the validation of system requirements across all test phases.
• Assisting with the development and review of test strategies, test plans, test procedures, test schedules, entry/exit criteria, and required test documentation.
• Analyzing test results to assess system performance against approved requirements.
• Participating in Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs) and stakeholder briefings to report test execution progress and evaluation results.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 3 years of related experience in test engineering. An additional 2 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Proven experience coordinating test planning and execution activities across test centers, program stakeholders, and systems engineering teams
• Direct experience supporting requirement validation and evaluating system
  performance against baseline requirements.
• Hands-on experience developing and reviewing test documentation, including test strategies, plans, procedures, and entry/exit criteria.
• Strong analytical capability to analyze test execution data, identify defects, and document performance findings.
• Extensive knowledge with Microsoft Office Tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with long range fires and munitions
• Prior experience supporting United States Marine Corps (USMC) or Department of Defense (DoD) test and evaluation programs.
• Completion of the following War Acquisition University (WAU) courses, ACQ 1010: Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management, TST 102: Fundamentals of Test and Evaluation and TST 1100: Intro to Systems Engineering for Testers.
• Experience supporting test readiness reviews, pre-test briefings, and post-test debriefings
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition frameworks, Marine Corps test procedures, and developmental/operational testing standards.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to deliver briefings and collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary engineering teams and Government stakeholders

Security Clearance Required:

• Must have a current/active DoD Secret Clearance.

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work