The Central Region Systems Engineering organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is looking for you to join our team as a Systems Test Engineer – Level 2 or 3 based out of Aurora, CO.

Position Overview:

Synthesizes customer contractual needs and requirements into system test solutions that acknowledges technical, schedule and cost constraints. Develops and directs preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules for completing systems. Coordinates integrated testing activities. Reviews and evaluates test requirements to ensure completeness of test program. Performs technical analysis of complete systems and prepares comprehensive system level evaluations.

This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work. 

This requisition may be filled at a higher job grade based on the qualifications listed below

This requisition may be filled as either a level 2 or level 3.

Basic Qualifications for a Level 2:

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of relevant experience; 0 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Experience with ground system software deployment, integration and testing in complex, layered, cloud-based environments

• Understanding of requirements decomposition, verification activity planning and execution

• Ability to collaborate with software development teams to ensure understanding, reproduction steps, resolution approach

• Ability to proactively identify software issues, perform troubleshooting and root cause investigation in support of generating detailed problem reports and engage in rapid, collaborative resolution

• Experience with Scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash), Git, Containerization (Kubernetes, Helm), and Java

Basic Qualifications for a Level 3:

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree, or 1 year of relevant experience with a PhD. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Experience with ground system software deployment, integration and testing in complex, layered, cloud-based environments

• Understanding of requirements decomposition, verification activity planning and execution

• Ability to collaborate with software development teams to ensure understanding, reproduction steps, resolution approach

• Ability to proactively identify software issues, perform troubleshooting and root cause investigation in support of generating detailed problem reports and engage in rapid, collaborative resolution

• Experience with Scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash), Git, Containerization (Kubernetes, Helm), and Java

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Security+ certification

• Adjudicated and active CI Poly

• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

• Understanding of Agile roles and responsibilities

• Expertise/understanding of Robot Framework and AWS