Systems/Test Engineer

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 Systems/Test Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:

Plan, coordinate, and execute test activities for aircraft systems, subsystems, and integrated capabilities.
• Develop test strategies, test plans, test procedures, test cases, and test reports for developmental, integration, qualification, verification, validation, and operational testing.
• Support test events involving aircraft avionics, mission systems, communications, sensors, software, hardware, interfaces, and related subsystems.
• Coordinate with systems engineers, software developers, hardware engineers, flight operations, maintenance personnel, and program leadership to prepare for and execute tests.
• Define test objectives, success criteria, data requirements, resource needs, and test configurations.
• Support test readiness reviews, safety reviews, technical interchange meetings, and post-test debriefs.
• Conduct or support bench, lab, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, taxi, and flight test activities, as applicable.
• Collect, analyze, and document test data, discrepancies, observations, and performance results.
• Identify defects, anomalies, integration issues, and performance shortfalls and support corrective action efforts.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, test procedures, test results, and verification evidence.
• Support test environment setup, configuration control, instrumentation coordination, and data collection planning.
• Prepare formal test documentation and status updates for program management, engineering leadership, customers, and certification authorities, as applicable.
• Support regression testing, retesting, and validation of resolved deficiencies.
• Ensure test activities are conducted in accordance with applicable safety, quality, airworthiness, and regulatory standards.

THIS HYBRID POSITION REQUIRES 3 DAYS OF WORK IN THE OFFICE AND 2 DAYS REMOTE PER WEEK

• BS/BA and 5-7 years of test engineering and/or systems engineering experience (Related MPRA experience can be substituted for a degree).
• Secret Clearance
• Test and Integration experience on complex flight simulators