Senior Software Systems Test Engineer (DoD Clearance)

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Paid time off

Overtime

Shift differential

Discretionary bonus

Annual bonuses

Long Term Incentives

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Huntsville, AL seeks a Principal Software Systems Test Engineer to lead system, integration, and automation testing for complex defense software products.

You will develop test plans, execute verification activities, analyze results, and collaborate with development, systems, and QA teams to resolve defects while ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases on the Tactical Ground Equipment BONES program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in STEM with required experience.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance.
• Strong test engineering principles (verification vs validation, coverage).
• Experience with test case design techniques (equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, use cases).
• Experience with test automation and at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Ability to read and interpret requirements, ICDs, and design specs.
• Familiarity with configuration management and version control (Git).
• Experience with API testing, UI testing, performance or security testing as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain test plans, procedures, and test cases for assigned systems/subsystems.
• Perform system, integration, and regression testing (manual and/or automated).
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot issues, and work with dev/Systems/QA to resolve defects.
• Document test evidence and support formal reviews, audits, and customer witness events.
• Contribute to requirements verification (traceability from requirements to test cases).
• Develop and/or maintain automated test scripts and test frameworks as applicable.
• Support test environment setup: hardware, software, tools, data, and configurations.
• Support continuous improvement of test processes, tools, and metrics

Skills

Test engineering

Test automation

Python

Bash

Requirements analysis

ICDs interpretation

Git

APIs testing

Education

Bachelors in STEM

Masters in STEM

Tools

Git

Job description

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Huntsville, AL seeks a Principal Software Systems Test Engineer to lead system, integration, and automation testing for complex defense software products.

You will develop test plans, execute verification activities, analyze results, and collaborate with development, systems, and QA teams to resolve defects while ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases on the Tactical Ground Equipment BONES program.