Senior Test Engineer, Systems Verification & HWIL Lead

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 123,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental & Vision coverage

401k

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Li

Paid Time Off

Health & Wellness Resources

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks a senior test engineer to prepare and manage facilities, labs, and test environments, translating customer requirements into system-level test solutions. You will develop, lead, and execute integrated test plans for complex defense/aerospace systems and coordinate across internal and external teams.

You will analyze test results, drive design improvements, oversee supplier tests, and contribute to proof-of-concept demonstrations to mitigate risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of relevant experience.
• OR a Masters degree and 6 years of relevant experience.
• OR a PhD and 4 years of relevant experience.
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage facilities, labs, HWIL/SWIL test environments, and supporting infrastructure for Phase 2 and future-phase test activities.
• Translate customer contractual requirements into comprehensive, system-level test solutions that balance technical performance, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Develop, lead, and execute integrated test plans, procedures, and schedules for subsystem, system-level, and environmental test events.
• Ensure test requirement completeness and traceability by contributing to and maintaining the Integrated Test Plan (ITP) and associated verification/validation artifacts.
• Coordinate and integrate test activities across internal engineering teams, lab operations, range organizations, and external suppliers to achieve coherent test campaigns.
• Perform technical analysis of test results and system performance, generate system-level evaluation reports, and provide data-driven recommendations to drive design improvements and risk reduction.
• Review and oversee supplier test efforts, including test requirements, plans, procedures, verification and validation of delivered components, and test data review.
• Design and implement proof-of-concept and risk-reduction test methods and demonstrations to identify and mitigate early program risks.
• Manage test data acquisition, configuration control, analysis, metrics, and documentation using modern toolsets (e.g., DOORS, Atlassian, data analytics) to support technical reviews and decision making.
• Serve as a primary technical liaison for test activities with customers, contractors, and senior stakeholders while ensuring compliance with safety, security, and export-control requirements.

Skills

Test planning

Test automation

Systems engineering

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

DOORS

Atlassian (Confluence, Jira)

Tableau

IBM Jazz

Job description

Northrop Grumman seeks a senior test engineer to prepare and manage facilities, labs, and test environments, translating customer requirements into system-level test solutions. You will develop, lead, and execute integrated test plans for complex defense/aerospace systems and coordinate across internal and external teams.

You will analyze test results, drive design improvements, oversee supplier tests, and contribute to proof-of-concept demonstrations to mitigate risks.