Senior Test Engineer - DoD Systems Integration

Auria Space; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Flex Time

Holidays

Job summary

Auria seeks a Sr. Test Engineer to support the HADES program at Kirtland AFB, NM. This full-time role focuses on developing testing procedures, defining verification strategies, and coordinating system integration across hardware, software, RF, and cybersecurity components.

You will lead test activities, produce TEMP and test reports, and mentor junior SEIT staff while ensuring compliance with industry standards and DoD requirements, including TS/SCI and SAP environments.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and an active DoD TOP SECRET security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant systems engineering, integration, verification, validation, or test experience, including direct participation across requirements, design, integration, formal test, acceptance, and delivery.
• Experience with requirements traceability, verification methods and evidence, system-level troubleshooting, and discrepancy resolution through regression and closure.
• Experience applying practical systems engineering methods across requirements traceability and verification.
• Experience developing or reviewing formal technical documentation, customer deliverables, and configuration-controlled engineering artifacts. Experience supporting technical, integration, test readiness, acceptance, and configuration reviews, including closure of technical actions.
• Strong technical writing, communication, organization, and cross-functional coordination skills, with the ability to independently drive assigned SEIT activities to closure.
• Experience working in an Agile engineering environment using collaborative tools such as Jira and Confluence to manage engineering coordination, requirements, documentation, and test activities.

Responsibilities

• Develops and applies testing procedures.
• Devises and maintains quality control and reliability standards.
• Provides technical support to other engineering departments.
• Ensures testing procedures meet industry standards.
• Ensures accurate record of measurement data.
• Performs work under general supervision.
• Handles moderately complex issues and problems, and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Possesses solid working knowledge and defines, performs, analyzes, and interprets test for products and product components.
• May provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
• Develop and maintain system architecture artifacts, including use cases, operational scenarios, sequence diagrams, interface definitions, and configuration baselines.
• Plan and coordinate system integration across hardware, software, networking, RF, and cybersecurity components, including sequencing, interface readiness, dependencies, and issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain verification strategies, TEMP, test plans, test procedures, requirements verification matrices, entry and exit criteria, and test reports.
• Lead assigned integration and formal test activities, including test readiness, execution, evidence collection, discrepancy resolution, regression, and verification closure
• Develop and review CDRLs and other customer deliverables for technical accuracy, consistency with the system baseline, and contractual compliance.
• Support and lead technical reviews, integration and test readiness reviews, acceptance activities, configuration reviews, and technical action closure.
• Assess the impact of technical changes on requirements, interfaces, system baselines, verification, documentation, risk, cost, and schedule.
• Support system acceptance, field integration, delivery, training, and transition to operations.
• Provide technical guidance to less-experienced SEIT engineers and help improve repeatable systems engineering and integration/test practices.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirement traceability

Verification & validation

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems/Electrical/Computer Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Auria seeks a Sr. Test Engineer to support the HADES program at Kirtland AFB, NM. This full-time role focuses on developing testing procedures, defining verification strategies, and coordinating system integration across hardware, software, RF, and cybersecurity components.

You will lead test activities, produce TEMP and test reports, and mentor junior SEIT staff while ensuring compliance with industry standards and DoD requirements, including TS/SCI and SAP environments.