Lead, Integration/Test Engineer (Kings George VA) (TS/SCI)
Dahlgren, Virginia
Job ID 16865L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Integration/Test Engineer
Job Code: 16865
Job Location: King George, VA
Job Description:
During its 120-year history, L3Harris has transformed communications and information technology. L3Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffic management, environmental solutions, avionics and electronic warfare, and space and intelligence. From ocean to orbit and everywhere in between, we provide mission-critical solutions to connect, inform and protect the world.
On the L3Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don't work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: we work here because we know what - and who - we're protecting! From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform - we're making the world a safer place.
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.
Essential Functions:
- Professional with strong knowledge of job area
- 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
- Experience in Agile & DevOps methodology and culture
- Proficient at JIRA/Confluence (or equivalent)
- 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
- Skilled in radar theory and principles
- 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%
Qualifications:
- 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 but ability to attain a Top Secret/SCI clearance upon hire.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- 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
- Experience with Agile & DevOps methodology and culture
- 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
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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