Lead Mission Test Engineer - SIGINT & EW Systems

Socket.dev; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 116,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI in Denver seeks a Mission Test Engineer to lead test strategy for complex hardware/software in Signals Intelligence. You will design for testability, coordinate with systems, software, and product teams, and deliver readiness reports throughout the development lifecycle.

This role requires a TS/SCI clearance, excellent communication, and experience across unit to system testing, enabling informed release decisions and government authorization support.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in computer science, engineering, information management, or related discipline.
• 10+ years’ operational intelligence experience including military intelligence training.
• Experience with targeting and tool development.
• Experience mitigating mission risks across lifecycle.
• Experience creating risk-based test strategies to validate operational effectiveness.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex results to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with workload/project management tools (e.g., Jira).
• Familiarity with the software life cycle from requirements to deployment.
• Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain quality and evaluation processes for hardware, software, and documentation aligned to program requirements.
• Define and track quality metrics; report status, trends, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to mission software quality and testing processes.
• Create risk-based test strategies and plans and oversee execution across unit, integration, system, and user acceptance levels.
• Design detailed test procedures for system, functional, regression, performance, load, installation, security, interoperability, stress, and boundary conditions.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and customer acceptance; deliver test reports and communicate readiness and risks for release decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align requirements and define test strategies and validation components, including automation candidates.
• Support Government authorization processes, including test planning, control validation, evidence collection, and system definition approvals.
• Participate in Change or Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Engineering Review Board (ERB) activities, providing test impact analyses.

Skills

Test Strategy

Quality Assurance

Risk Management

Communication Skills

Education

BA/BS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

CACI in Denver seeks a Mission Test Engineer to lead test strategy for complex hardware/software in Signals Intelligence. You will design for testability, coordinate with systems, software, and product teams, and deliver readiness reports throughout the development lifecycle.

This role requires a TS/SCI clearance, excellent communication, and experience across unit to system testing, enabling informed release decisions and government authorization support.