What You’ll Get to Do:

• Develop customer contractual needs and requirements into test solutions that acknowledges technical schedule and cost constraints.
• Develop and direct preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules.
• Review and evaluate test requirements for completeness of test program.
• Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts, Element Test teams, System Test teams, and other stakeholders to identify test objectives, test requirements, and risks that require test to mitigate
• Supporting development of instrumentation requirements for Hardware in the Loop testing.
• Identify test support requirements and coordinate with Design & Integration team for budget and personnel needs
• Overseeing test activities in support or requirement verification and validation.
• Conduct daily briefing and approve test start for each test event.
• Approve Break of Configuration on the test floor
• Conduct tabletop reviews and dry run test procedures with test team prior to execution
• Coordinate and conduct Technical and Safety Review Boards, and Test Readiness Reviews
• Support customer Test Plan Working Groups
• Prepare Test Planning Team charters
• Coordinate with Quality organization for test support
• Review and approve major test amendments

Position Benefits

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Job Qualifications

BQs/You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• 2 years of relevant experience with a bachelors; 0 years with a masters; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need 
• Knowledge of system integration and test principles and processes
• Experience supporting the development, plan, and execution of test plans and reporting
• Basic Knowledge of systems engineering principles including requirement decomposition and allocation of requirements
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to define test objectives and requirements for test activities in a hardware in the loop lab.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have (PQs):

• Understanding of Model Based System Engineering principles, working experience with CAMEO
• Knowledge/experience with AF Test Directive 99-103
• Experience with ICBMs (MM, PK, Small Missile) or DOD programs
• Knowledge/Experience with IBM DOORS database
• Support the generation of test procedures and test readiness reviews (TRRs)
• Strong background of test instrumentation
• Creation of test Concept of Operations (ConOps) flows that maximizes the utility of test resources while meeting schedule and technical requirements and/or constraints
• Generate and support test data decomposition and test reports to other IPTs.
• Assist in consolidating and processing of final test data for requirements verification/model validation sign-off
• Strong understanding of entire product lifecycle, modeling and engineering best practices

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