Date Posted:
2024-10-16
Country:
United States of America
Location:
VA541: 22110 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22110 Pacific Boulevard Building CC3, Sterling, VA, 20166-6913 USA
Position Role Type:
Onsite
Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers' toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.
The Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) Engagement Controller and Manager (BECM) program is seeking a Systems / Test Engineer.
BECM is a new program to integrate and deploy a battle management capability for the Navy's long range fires mission, centered on integrating moderate-to-high TRL software applications into an on-prem hardware stack running Kubernetes. The systems will ultimately deploy to Navy sites for customer-led test and evaluation. The BECM program uses modern engineering methods including MBSE, DevSecOps and Agile Scrum at Scale, as well as a heavy focus on development of automated test capabilities.
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As a member of the System Engineering & Test scrum team, the Systems / Test Engineer performs requirements and interface analysis, systems architecture and analysis, test case development and system verification, and change management.
What You Will Do
- Perform requirements analysis, including decomposing and deriving system and subsystem-level specifications from top level requirements and CONOPS, allocating the requirements to design components and test cases, and conducting requirements reviews.
- Define test cases to verify system requirements, including defining test threads and specifying needs for associated test harnesses and test data. System tests include functional tests, interface tests, and performance tests (e.g., scalability and load tests).
- Support implementing and configuring the test harness and creating test data to conduct system-level acceptance test.
- Work with automated test engineers to create automated tests using tools such as Selenium (UI test), SoapUI (interface test), and Jmeter (performance tests).
- Use an integrated Digital Engineering Environment that includes Cameo (MBSE and requirements), Zephyr (test management), and Jira (Agile).
- Support related system engineering activities including system analysis, trade studies, change management, risk management, and defect review/disposition.
- Engage with the Navy customer and stakeholders at weekly Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), sprint demos, and formal reviews such as Design Reviews and Test Readiness Reviews.
- Contribute to a team of system integration & test engineers in accomplishing engineering tasks via an Agile iterative approach.
Qualifications You Must Have
- 4+ years of experience performing requirements analysis for software-centric systems, system test engineering for software-centric systems (including defining test cases), developing test procedures and associated data sets, and conducting tests.
- Experience working in Agile Scrum, using stories to plan, assign, and track work, using SysML models as the primary source of the system design (e.g., interface definitions, use cases, mission threads, system components & their allocated requirements).
- Knowledge of automated testing using tools such as Selenium or Cucumber (functional test), SoapUI (API tests), JMeter (performance test), and Zephyr (test manager & test status dashboard).
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience
- Active and transferable U.S. government DoD issued Top Secret security clearance (with SCI eligibility) required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. Local travel for customer meetings (approximately 20%) and additional periodic CONUS travel to support integration and test may be required.
Qualifications We Prefer
- Experience working on a DevSecOps program using practices such as Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated status & document generation (including test plans & results), and Everything-as-Code with formal training in SE, System Architecture, MBSE, DevSecOps, and/or test automation.
- 2+ years of experience creating automated user interface and external interface tests using tools such as Selenium and SoapUI, creating automated performance load tests using tools such as Jmeter, performing system analysis in Cameo (including defining interfaces, performing design, and allocating requirements), configuring a tool such as Zephyr for test management
- Program experience in Command & Control (C2) and intelligence collection systems, and Domain knowledge of US Navy Combat Systems.
What We Offer
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Student Loan Repayment Program.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits.
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
- Adoption Assistance.
- Autism Benefit.
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
- Bright Horizons, child, and elder care services.
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.
- May be eligible for relocation.
- And more!
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Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.
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Minimum Program Qualifications:
- Be on a career break of one or more year at time of application
- Have prior experience in functional area of interest
- Have interest in returning in either a full-time or part-time position
Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions - whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.
*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.
Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form - with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.
Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.
Employee Referral Eligible
The salary range for this role is 85,000 USD - 179,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.
RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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