Senior Principal System Test Engineer (onsite)

Senior Principal System Test Engineer

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers' toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

An RTX Collins program supporting the US Navy is seeking a Senior Principal System Test Engineer. The program objective is to integrate and deploy a battle management capability for the Navy's long range fires mission, centered on integrating moderate-to-high TRL software applications into on-prem hardware stacks and cloud environments. The systems will ultimately deploy to Navy sites for customer-led test and evaluation. The program uses modern engineering methods including MBSE, DevSecOps and Agile Scrum at Scale.

As a member of the Mission Integration & Test scrum team, the Senior System Test Engineer focuses on developing approaches for verifying system requirements, identifying required simulation capabilities to support verification, developing system-level test documentation (plans, procedures, etc.), execution of test procedures, documentation of results and communicating with the customer throughout the process.

This position is located onsite in Dulles, VA and requires an active TS security clearance with SCI eligibility. Active and current TSSCI is highly desired.

What You Will Do:

• Define test approaches, plans and procedures to verify system requirements, including identifying needs for associated test harnesses and test data. System tests include functional tests, interface tests, and performance tests (e.g., scalability and load tests) through the standard verification methods.
• Support implementing and configuring the test harness and creating test data to conduct system-level acceptance tests.
• Use an integrated Digital Engineering Environment that includes Cameo (MBSE and requirements), ZephyrScale (test management), and Jira (Agile).
• Engage with the Navy customer and stakeholders at Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), sprint demos, and formal reviews such as Design Reviews and Test Readiness Reviews.
• Contribute to a team of software and system integration & test engineers in accomplishing engineering tasks via an Agile iterative approach.
• Local travel for customer meetings (approximately 10%).
• Additional periodic CONUS travel to support integration and test will be required.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
• 4+ years of experience performing system test engineering for software-centric systems, including developing test approaches, test procedures and associated data sets, and conducting tests.
• Experience in performing verification traceability from system requirements to subsystem requirements.
• Experience in developing test plans, procedures and reports for DoD customers.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum, using stories to plan, assign, and track work.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS security clearance with SCI eligibility is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Existing TS/SCI highly desired.
• Experience with ZephyrScale or similar test management tool for Jira.
• Experience with CameoEA System Requirements Modeler.
• Experience integrating CameoEA and Jira for requirement to test traceability.
• Program experience in Command & Control (C2) and intelligence collection systems.
• Domain knowledge of US Navy Combat Systems.
• Ability to create software scripts and test data to execute tests.

What We Offer:

• Some of our competitive benefits package includes:
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.