Senior Systems Test Engineer

Lead Systems/Test Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a Lead Systems/Test Engineer who will oversee the requirements verification ecosystem for multiple interconnected products. This role is integral in ensuring all program requirements are thoroughly captured, properly traced, verified, documented, and tested repeatedly. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with requirements management tools, maintain rigorous discipline, and be highly proficient in planning, writing, executing, and maintaining verification activities and test procedures. Experience with military or DoD communication systems and qualification standards is highly desirable. This position is central to ensuring engineering teams stay aligned with requirements, testers maintain consistent coverage, and the delivered system meets all contractual, technical, and regulatory commitments.

Responsibilities

• Manage requirements using tools such as DOORS, including structure, decomposition, trace links, change control, baselines, and review workflows.
• Interpret customer requirements and provide actionable feedback to ensure clarity, consistency, and testability.
• Own and maintain the requirement management process with full bidirectional traceability from requirements through verification.
• Ensure complete requirements coverage across development and test teams; proactively identify gaps or misalignments.
• Develop, write, review, and maintain test procedures, verification plans, and qualification strategies to ensure repeatable, AS9100-compliant testing.
• Coordinate verification and validation across software, hardware, systems, and test engineering.
• Work closely with developers and testers to ensure implementation aligns with requirements and test results are complete and repeatable.
• Lead verification readiness activities and formal events such as Test Readiness Reviews (TRR) and Production Readiness Reviews (PRR/FDR).
• Maintain system-level verification artifacts including test plans, verification matrices, integration flows, and compliance checklists.
• Drive configuration control for requirements, verification artifacts, and test procedures.
• Mentor junior engineers and strengthen systems/test engineering processes across the organization.

Essential Skills

• Bachelors Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in systems engineering, test engineering, verification management, or a similar role.
• Expertise with requirements management and traceability tools, preferably DOORS or similar, including creation of reusable templates, schemas, baselines, and complex traces.
• Ability to translate high-level customer requirements into detailed, verifiable requirement statements and associated test methods.
• Strong proficiency in full lifecycle systems engineering for embedded communication systems, with the ability to operate effectively in a fixed price, schedule-driven environment while supporting Agile development practices.
• Demonstrated ownership of requirements management in prior roles, ideally on DoD or complex embedded system programs.
• Experience writing clear, repeatable, AS9100-compliant test procedures for embedded hardware/software systems.
• Hands-on experience defining, refining, and maintaining traceable requirements baselines, performing system modeling and analysis, writing test software, and executing verification in alignment with contractual commitments.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience supporting Navy or other DoD development or acquisition programs.
• Knowledge of configuration management, controlled baselines, and digital engineering toolchains.
• Ability to write or modify test support software or automation scripts (e.g., Bash, Python, C#, Robot Framework, etc.).
• Familiarity with high-speed data buses such as Ethernet, PCIe, USB 3.x, and JESD204.
• Familiarity with environmental qualification standards and test methods, including MIL STD 461 and MIL STD 810.

Work Environment

The work environment is mission-driven, contributing to technologies that support critical defense, aerospace, and national security applications. Employees will work on products that have a real-world impact and high visibility. The role involves exposure to modern DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, AI-assisted development, cloud technologies, embedded systems, and secure software environments. Employees will have significant ownership and autonomy to drive process improvements and introduce new technologies, directly improving the productivity of large engineering organizations. The environment offers opportunities for career growth, working alongside experienced software, systems, hardware, and infrastructure engineers, with exposure to both traditional software development and highly specialized engineering environments. There are also long-term opportunities, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance, providing valuable career advantages within the defense and aerospace industries.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Melbourne, FL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $72.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Melbourne, FL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 10, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Melbourne,FL.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing winner for both client and talent service.

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