Test Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Usa, MD

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution. If this sounds like you, come join Booz Allen’s team to work on an exciting defense capability program. As a Hardware Test Engineer, you will work with Booz Allen colleagues and the U.S. Navy to develop and rapidly deploy the next generation GPS-degraded, semi-autonomous defense capability. Your customer will trust you to test, analyze, evaluate, verify, and validate the hardware, electronics, and integrated subsystems that make up these systems. You'll develop test fixtures and procedures, execute bench, environmental, and hardware-in-the-loop testing against established requirements, and identify areas requiring urgent mitigation early in the development cycle. Grow your skills by merging innovative test methodologies and cross-disciplinary coordination to create tomorrow’s solutions. Join our team and create the future of remote sensing. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience leading test and evaluation, or system integration on DoD aerospace or ground systems, including integrating hardware, electronic circuits, and components into larger systems and verifying compatibility
10+ years of experience working in a collaborative team environment developing test strategies, plans, reports, and briefings, and participating in hardware test execution, verification, or analysis
Experience developing and executing hardware test procedures using lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and data acquisition systems
Experience with hardware bring-up, subsystem integration testing, and root cause analysis of hardware and software interface issues
Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2
Ability to define, develop, maintain, and execute large-scale system test plans and overarching test and evaluation strategy documents based on System and Subsystem Requirements, including Test and Evaluation Strategy (TES), Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMP), System Integration Test Plans (SITP), Enterprise Verification Plans (EVP), Verification Cross Reference Matrices (VCRM), and Requirements Verification Files (RVFs)
Ability to communicate and establish collaborative relationships with government clients, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), developing contractors, and associate contractor teammates to achieve program goals
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics field

Nice To Haves

Experience performing systems engineering, integration, and testing on energetic systems
Experience with environmental, EMI, and EMC qualification testing, including MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, or MIL-STD-464
Experience developing test fixtures and automated test equipment (ATE) for hardware verification
Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) test environments
Experience with portfolio and program verification, interoperability, validation, certification, and operational acceptance
Experience planning, executing, and reporting testing with the Lead Developmental Test Organization or the Operational Test Agency
Experience using Model-Based Systems Engineering tools to manage system definitions, technical baselines, and requirements verification
Knowledge of DoD 5000.01, 5000.02, 5000.89, 5000.98, or 5000.100
Master’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Technology
CTEP or INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification such as ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP Certification

Responsibilities

Test, analyze, evaluate, verify, and validate the hardware, electronics, and integrated subsystems.
Develop test fixtures and procedures.
Execute bench, environmental, and hardware-in-the-loop testing against established requirements.
Identify areas requiring urgent mitigation early in the development cycle.
Merge innovative test methodologies and cross-disciplinary coordination to create tomorrow’s solutions.