Lead Test Engineer

Peraton • Albuquerque, NM

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Lead Test Engineer to support the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) SSHINE contract to integrate, test, and support launch operations of experimental payloads. AFRL will provide the satellite bus and payload with all available documentation to date. The Lead Test Engineer will work closely with the rest of the team assigned to resolve any integration or test-related issues to ensure mission success. All the work will be done in Albuquerque at the AFRL location utilizing their HITL/SITL test bench and satellite integration facility.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree; OR 10+ years of experience with a Master’s degree.
• 10+ years of technical experience working systems integration and test activities
• Local to Albuquerque, New Mexico with the ability to work on-site
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Solid communication and collaboration skills
• Mission success mindset

Responsibilities

• Establishes standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders.
• Evaluates enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation, and transition impacts.
• Designs, develops, and implements test and evaluation strategies, plans and methods to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system specifications and defined enterprise capabilities, and integrates system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole.
• Reviews, evaluates, and derives requirements for testability.
• Ensures systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods.
• Generates system requirement and enterprise capability verification approaches and customer acceptance criteria.
• Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements compliance through verification and validation.
• Develops and directs preparation for and execution of comprehensive test & evaluation plans, procedures and schedules which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system requirements, performance, and operability.
• Coordinates system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities with other organizations.
• Compiles data and defines changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing processes, or new testing requirements.
• Implements testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.
• Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.
• Performs analysis and evaluations of systems under test.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments.
• Evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities.

Benefits

• Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees