Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer needed for a multi-year contract role in Aurora, CO
**Must Have An active TS/SCI**
Job Description:
Our Client is seeking a Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join our Engineering team in Aurora, Colorado for the role of an Integration and Test Engineer.
In Systems Integration and Test (SI&T) we integrate, verify, and validate our products. We put our systems together, exercise them in the lab or in the field, measure and analyze performance, and make sure our products work the first time and every time. To accomplish this, we develop plans and procedures, debug and evaluate system functions and interfaces, develop test environments, and work hand-in-hand with our customers.
What You Will Do:
- In this role, you will work with a cross-disciplinary team of engineers who are leading the industry in ground systems solutions.
- The Integration and Test Engineer supports the Product Owner in completing tasks for Features and Capabilities requested by the government in support of government-led test events.
- The Integration and Test Engineer also assists the Product Owner and Team in planning the team's scope to complete them efficiently during each program increment.
- Responsibilities include supporting various government-led enterprise mission events, supporting team's backlog, supporting the team during program increment planning, being involved the team's capacity, participating in retrospectives to continuously improve after each program increment, elaborating and developing test plans and procedures, addressing/prioritizing issues as found in the system, and identifying results.
- The Integration and Test Engineer also participates in various program reviews and presentations to the customer as well as senior program management.
- Support the Product Owner that oversees and provides daily directions to the assigned Product Team
- Helps to manage the team's backlog and capacity during each program increment
- Plan and support various customer-led mission test events
- Regularly interact with the End-User by managing and nurturing the business relationship, managing expectations vs. scope of contract, proactively addressing emerging needs, and identifying results.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and align Product Team's priorities with Test Cross Product Lead.
- Works independently, determines & develops approach to solutions
- Willingness to travel in support of offsite testing and meetings
- Work in an Agile program environment
- Work in a classified lab on site in Aurora, Colorado and at customer sites
Qualifications You Must Have
- Typically requires a Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant systems integration and test experience.
- 5+ years' experience with 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, 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 and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret security/SCI clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
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
Employment Pre-requisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
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Estimated Min Rate: $56.00
Estimated Max Rate: $80.00 |
SOC LLC
Jul 10, 2025