Position: Systems Integration & Test Engineer
Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Aurora, CO
Contract Type: Contractor | Contract to Hire (minimum of 12 months)
Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Start Time: 12:00 AM

Role Overview

You will join a cross‑disciplinary engineering team focused on delivering ground‑systems solutions for government customers. As the Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer, you'll support feature development, plan and execute test events, and help drive continuous improvement in an Agile environment.

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What You Will Do

• Collaborate with a cross‑disciplinary team of engineers leading the industry in ground‑systems solutions.

• Support the Product Owner in completing tasks for Features and Capabilities requested by the government in support of government‑led test events.

• Assist the Product Owner and Team in planning the team's scope to complete them efficiently during each program increment.

• Elaborate and develop test plans and procedures; debug and evaluate system functions and interfaces.

• Integrate, troubleshoot, and isolate software/containerized applications; develop test procedures and tools that capture performance‑based metrics in support of requirement sell‑off.

• Address and prioritize issues as found in the system, identify and document results.

• Participate in retrospectives and continuous‑improvement activities after each program increment.

• Support various government‑led enterprise mission events and team backlog management.

• Participate in program reviews and presentations to the customer and senior program management.

• Regularly interact with the End‑User: manage business relationships, set expectations vs. contract scope, proactively address emerging needs, and identify results.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and align Product Team priorities with the Test Cross‑Product Lead.

• Work independently to determine and develop approaches to solutions.

• Travel as needed to support off‑site testing and meetings.

• Operate in an Agile program environment and in a classified lab on‑site in Aurora, CO and at customer sites.

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Qualifications You Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)

• Minimum of 8 years' prior relevant systems integration and test experience

• 5+ years' experience with the systems engineering lifecycle

• Experience developing test procedures that exercise internal interfaces between applications

• Experience with systems engineering principles and activities

• Experience testing software running on Linux‑based operating systems

• Experience integrating, troubleshooting, and problem isolation of software/containerized applications

• Experience developing test procedures and tools that capture performance‑based metrics in support of requirement sell‑off

• Experience in system, software, and hardware development lifecycle models (waterfall and Agile)

• Active, transferable U.S. government‑issued Top Secret/SCI clearance (U.S. citizenship required)

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Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience in Systems Integration and/or Test Engineering experience on a prototype / pursuit program, Experience in Systems Engineer process development and deployment

• Experience working in an Agile or DevOps development environment

• Experience using CI/CD, pipelines and container-based dev sec ops tools; gitlab, jenkins, artifactory, nexus, junit, pytest, sonarcube, coverity, docker, helm, harbor

• Experience using acceptance test driven development, test driven development and behavior driven development methodologies and tools, cucumber, cypress, zephyr, java, python

• Experience as a Product Owner, Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools or similar tools; CameoEA, Jira, Confluence, ZephyrScale, Syndea