Systems/Test Engineer
Summary
Designs and executes test plans for aircraft systems, avionics, and mission software, coordinating with engineers and flight operations to validate performance and safety in lab, ground, and flight environments.
Overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
Responsibilities
As a Systems/Test Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:
- Plan, coordinate, and execute test activities for aircraft systems, subsystems, and integrated capabilities.
- Develop test strategies, test plans, test procedures, test cases, and test reports for developmental, integration, qualification, verification, validation, and operational testing.
- Support test events involving aircraft avionics, mission systems, communications, sensors, software, hardware, interfaces, and related subsystems.
- Coordinate with systems engineers, software developers, hardware engineers, flight operations, maintenance personnel, and program leadership to prepare for and execute tests.
- Define test objectives, success criteria, data requirements, resource needs, and test configurations.
- Support test readiness reviews, safety reviews, technical interchange meetings, and post-test debriefs.
- Conduct or support bench, lab, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, taxi, and flight test activities, as applicable.
- Collect, analyze, and document test data, discrepancies, observations, and performance results.
- Identify defects, anomalies, integration issues, and performance shortfalls and support corrective action efforts.
- Ensure traceability between requirements, test procedures, test results, and verification evidence.
- Support test environment setup, configuration control, instrumentation coordination, and data collection planning.
- Prepare formal test documentation and status updates for program management, engineering leadership, customers, and certification authorities, as applicable.
- Support regression testing, retesting, and validation of resolved deficiencies.
- Ensure test activities are conducted in accordance with applicable safety, quality, airworthiness, and regulatory standards.
THIS HYBRID POSITION REQUIRES 3 DAYS OF WORK IN THE OFFICE AND 2 DAYS REMOTE PER WEEK
Qualifications
- BS/BA and 5-7 years of test engineering and/or systems engineering experience (Related MPRA experience can be substituted for a degree).
- Secret Clearance
- Test and Integration experience on complex flight simulators