xEVA Integrated Test & Facilities (ITF) Test Lead
About The Position
The Aerospace Corporation’s Civil Systems Group is seeking an xEVA Integrated Test & Facilities (ITF) Test Lead. The ITF team leads program integration and coordinates multidisciplinary, cost-effective testing to support project and program development and safe, successful extravehicular activities. Its role includes preparing, coordinating, and executing development and verification and validation testing across Artemis, xEVA, and other programs and stakeholders, as well as working with facility owners to prepare facilities for evolving test requirements. The Test Lead provides programmatic and integrated test-team oversight from planning through execution and post-test reporting. The role forms and coordinates test teams, assigns responsibilities, manages test documentation and schedules, oversees readiness reviews and test execution, and tracks risks, issues, progress, and reporting. The position also coordinates hardware and facility resources, communicates status to stakeholders and management, and ensures test results and lessons learned are documented and released appropriately. This is a full-time position based at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It follows a hybrid work model requiring four regular onsite workdays, with remote flexibility as business needs allow.
Requirements
- Experience with verification and validation test planning and execution, preferably in a variety of facilities and environments.
- Eight or more years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with flight hardware certification.
- Proven experience managing teams.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience negotiating and resolving issues and disagreements.
- Familiarity with the NASA Certificate of Flight Readiness (CoFR) process.
- Intermediate-level project management.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in engineering, science, or another applicable STEM area.
- Extensive experience performing or leading verification and validation activities for NASA missions.
- Knowledge of lunar surface systems, including spacesuits and landers.
- Strong foundation in test planning, execution, and reporting for space systems.
- Experience integrating and coordinating international partners and commercial vendors.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Responsibilities
- Provide programmatic and integrated test-team oversight to ensure overall test success.
- Ensure tests align with Artemis and xEVA priorities and the approved scope requested by the sponsoring organization; for verification and validation testing, ensure plans and procedures address relevant requirements.
- Supervise test planning, oversee test execution, and manage post-test reporting; collaborate with other programs’ test-planning personnel for cross-program testing.
- Form test teams for each test series, including requestors, subject-matter experts, stakeholder organization representatives, hardware experts, facility representatives, and commercial services providers as appropriate.
- Assign test-product development and test-execution roles to team members while retaining accountability.
- Coordinate support from hardware and facility teams and ensure requested resources meet customer needs and are ready for use.
- Prepare and execute the Test Readiness Review (TRR), coordinating with the Test Director or facility representative to schedule the review and identify board members.
- Manage development of test documentation, lead the TRR presentation to the board, and ensure actions are closed.
- Track test-planning and execution progress and provide updates to EHP.
- Provide updates to the Integrated Test Team Working Group and ITF Panel, and communicate significant issues to sponsoring organizations and xEVA management.
- Create, baseline, and own the test-series schedule, including product milestones, preparation, test-subject training, test events, and reporting.
- Manage test constraints, risks, issues, and mitigations.
- Oversee test execution and manage test observers and access.
- Ensure test subjects understand test objectives, their roles, and expectations for supporting the test.
- Provide daily status updates during test execution and notify xEVA management of issues.
- Coordinate team input on lessons learned, provide Quick Look presentations to the ITF Panel, and ensure test configuration, protocol, and data-analysis products are documented in the test report.
- Approve readiness of post-test analysis, lessons learned, and the final test report for release, ensuring export-control review, DQA, and incorporation as an xEVA-managed product.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans.
- Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
- Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options.
- 401(k) plan with company-paid benefits of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service, plus matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested upon hire.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Variable pay program for exceptional contributions.
- Relocation assistance.
- Professional growth and development programs.
- Education assistance programs.
- Inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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