Ground System Test Engineer

Job Title: Lead Integration/Test Engineer

Job Code: 45325

Job Location: Palm Bay, Florida

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked (Every Other Friday Off)

Job Description:

L3Harris is a key provider of space-based sensors for critical defense priorities, designing and building constellations of satellites and the ground systems that control them. As a lead integration and test engineer for a cloud-based ground segment, you’ll plan and perform systems integration, functional testing, and formal verification tests. You’ll work with interdisciplinary teams including space vehicle and communications engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and ground software developers to ensure the ground system fulfills all mission requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Develop detailed test plans, descriptions, and procedures
• Identify, schedule, and track test milestones
• Identify, investigate, and report on problems discovered during testing
• Perform integration testing with simulators, emulators, flight satellite hardware, and software and hardware testbeds
• Perform and prepare detailed reports on formal verification test events

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• SECRET DOD Clearance required

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Subject matter expert with a minimum of 9 years of experience, with comprehensive knowledge of complex multi-subsystem cloud-hosted systems and in-depth knowledge of project management
• Ability to communicate within and outside of the organization using collaboration tools, presentations, written reports, and in-person meetings including with customers and vendors
• Perform extensive investigations to determine root causes of and potential solutions for complex problems
• Familiarity with MBSE tools such as MagicDraw
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS and use in establishing traceability between requirements, use cases and test cases
• Understanding of Earned Value Management System and program milestone tracking
• Experience with Ansible and Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)