Senior Defence Test & Evaluation Lead

Chaos1 Pty; New South Wales; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days of annual leave

Clearance sponsorship

Job summary

Chaos1 Pty is seeking a mission-first Senior Test & Evaluation Analyst to join the Test & Evaluation team within our Mission Operations business line. You will design and run test events end to end, from the customer's question through the measures to the reported result, working alongside end-users in operational environments and briefing findings to the problem owner.

This role offers ownership of test design, rapid data reduction, and the chance to set standards for analysts, with onsite at

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics or a related technical discipline.
• Over 4 years in test and evaluation, operational test or trials of Defence systems, including time running test events.
• Experience designing tests against critical operational issues, measures and confidence levels, and analysing the data that results.
• Hands-on experience executing test events in the lab, on the range and in the field, with the data capture and reporting that follows.
• Working proficiency in at least one of Python, MATLAB or R, and in reducing telemetry, video and log data against the measures.
• Fluency in Defence T&E documents including test plans, trial directives and test reports.
• Ability to brief findings clearly to operators, engineers and senior customers.
• Willingness to deploy to Defence sites and ranges for extended periods, including irregular hours in campaign windows.
• Australian citizenship and ability to obtain a NV1 security clearance.
• Ability to be onsite at Chaos1's XFACTORY, Sydney. The role is open to hybrid work.

Responsibilities

• Design test events from the customer's question. Derive critical operational issues, measures and confidence levels, and write the test plan that runs inside a campaign sprint, for the Test & Evaluation Manager's approval.
• Run the range floor for your event through serials, instrumentation, data capture and the daily log, with the analysts working alongside you.
• Reduce and analyse test data into findings inside days, and draft the report and the brief for the problem owner.
• Keep the traceability matrix live for your event from the customer's question through the measures to the result, and close deficiencies on the record.
• Apply Chaos1's rapid assessment and operational test methodologies, and write the changes to them after each event for the Test & Evaluation Manager
• Bring your event to test readiness with the flight operations and engineering teams, including configuration under test and data standards
• Represent the test team in customer working groups and at allied test activities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics or a related technical discipline

Over 4 years in test and evaluation, operational test or trials of Defence systems

Tools

Python

MATLAB

R

Job description

Chaos1 Pty is seeking a mission-first Senior Test & Evaluation Analyst to join the Test & Evaluation team within our Mission Operations business line. You will design and run test events end to end, from the customer's question through the measures to the reported result, working alongside end-users in operational environments and briefing findings to the problem owner.

This role offers ownership of test design, rapid data reduction, and the chance to set standards for analysts, with onsite at