Sr. Principal Engineer Software – TS Test Verification Lead (25-041)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems – Launch and Missile Defense Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a Sr Principal Engineer Software – TS Test Verification Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Huntsville, AL.

Position Overview:

The selected Sr. Principal Software Engineer will support the C2BMC program and manage software requirements verification for the Track Server product team.  You will achieve customer acceptance of test procedures, verifying automated test procedures, creating/managing software tools to assist with automated requirements verification, and work with the Track Server scrum teams to analyze software performance, observations, and requirements verification.

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program integrates the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to see the battle develop collectively, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives.

C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks integrate, synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is integral to all system ground and flight tests, which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.

Essential Functions:

• Create a test development plan to ensure all applicable functional and performance requirements are verified
• Will write automated test plugins that integrate with the C2BMC test framework using the Java software language
• Analyze functional and performance requirements to create logical flow diagrams of tests
• Will work and communicate effectively with systems engineers/architects’ analysis of test results, and present verification analysis to the Government customer
• Assist with Software Development
• Assist with managing lab assets
• Apply Agile Methodologies

Basic Qualifications:

Please note your updated security clearance and IAT/relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Information Systems, Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience or a Master’s degree in a related STEM discipline and 6 years of experience, or a PhD and 4 years of experience, or 12 years of related experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.
• Applicants must have a current active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs
• Applicants must have experience in testing and evaluating a software-intensive system in various test environments/venues, utilizing Agile development
• Applicants must have experience in the use of DoD test methodologies, functional capability-related test/analysis planning and execution, planning and execution of test data collection, and test data analysis and reporting
• Applicants analysis experience should involve characterizing system, software, or component performance using quantitative methods, reporting the characterization to subsequent users, and contributing to performance assessment by program system engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

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