Test Engineer (Mid)

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

As a Test Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:

Work with DoD Civilians, USN Fleet Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Industry and other contractors in the planning and execution of test plans, test procedures, and system evaluation.
• Acquire a deep understanding of NAVAIR training devices and simulators in determining optimum test scenarios and mission based testing methodologies.
• Conduct background research and provide analytical support and recommendations for the development of data collection plans for testing the operational effectiveness and suitability.
• Trace and validate training systems requirements to test procedures to ensure all requirements have adequate coverage.
• Author and validate test procedures with support from USN fleet SMEs.
• Support or lead onsite test events as the American Systems test engineer and document defects.
• At the completion of formal test events, coordinate the writing and promulgation of test reports.
• Travel in support of program objectives at the direction of the Program Manager.

• Active TOP SECRET Clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
• BS/BA

• Minimum 4+ years of software and hardware testing experience.

• Experience in Acceptance Testing.

• Experience working in an Agile Development environment.

• Excellent analytical, debugging, problem-solving and root-cause analysis skill.

• Experience designing functional and non-functional test cases that verify requirements and validate functionality.

• Experience detecting, reporting, and tracking defects.

• Experienced in test result evaluation, reporting and metrics.