System Test Engineer - Space & DoD DevSecOps

NTG; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Technologies Group seeks a Mid-Level System Test Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency’s Space Systems Test & Integration team and the MDSEA under the IRES contract. The role provides technical guidance for verification, validation, and mission-readiness across complex satellite ground system environments.

You will lead system-level testing, automation, and DevSecOps-aligned development pipelines while coordinating with government stakeholders in secure DoD environments.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen required.
• Active DoD security clearance (DoW Secret).
• 6+ years of full-time general work experience; reduced with advanced education.
• 3+ years in complex enterprise IT system testing and integration.
• Experience with enterprise IT infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, virtualization, services).
• Proven ability to author test plans/cases and lead complex test campaigns.
• Experience designing/executing test automation solutions.
• Experience coordinating across vendors, engineering teams, Agile groups, and government stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of requirements analysis and the Systems Engineering V-model.
• Familiarity with Agile practices and secure development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute system-level test strategies, plans, procedures, and verification artifacts.
• Provide technical guidance to MDSEA System Engineers for test standardization and performance targets.
• Coordinate test activities across vendors, engineering teams, Agile groups, and government stakeholders.
• Manage the Integrated Master Test Schedule (IMTS) for DT/OT events and readiness reviews.
• Conduct functional, integration, regression, performance, cybersecurity, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate software builds, configuration changes, and enterprise satellite ground system components.
• Test IT infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, virtualization, services).
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for CI/CD pipelines in DevSecOps environments.
• Apply DevSecOps practices to Infrastructure as Code and automated deployments.
• Identify and track anomalies; lead defect triage and root-cause analyses.
• Produce test reports, readiness assessments, risk summaries for leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensure configuration management and cybersecurity compliance in testing.

Skills

Systems engineering

Test automation

DevSecOps

Agile practices

Vendor coordination

Requirements analysis

V-model

Systems testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Systems Engineering

Job description

Northern Technologies Group seeks a Mid-Level System Test Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency’s Space Systems Test & Integration team and the MDSEA under the IRES contract. The role provides technical guidance for verification, validation, and mission-readiness across complex satellite ground system environments.

You will lead system-level testing, automation, and DevSecOps-aligned development pipelines while coordinating with government stakeholders in secure DoD environments.