Test Engineer – Integration, Test, and Documentation

BTS; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health benefits

PTO

401K matching

Job summary

BTS Software Solutions is seeking a Test Engineer to support integration, verification, and delivery of complex hardware/software systems for national security missions. You will coordinate across hardware, software, firmware, and test teams to ensure proper integration, testing, and documentation.

You will develop test plans and system verification activities and produce clear engineering documentation and user materials.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance is required.
• Experience with systems engineering, system integration, or technical testing for complex hardware/software systems.
• Experience creating and managing integration and test plans and verification activities.
• Ability to coordinate work across software, hardware, firmware, and other engineering disciplines.
• Experience documenting system architecture, interfaces, configurations, requirements, and test results.

Responsibilities

• Support integration, verification, and delivery of advanced technical systems for national security missions.
• Coordinate across hardware, software, firmware, and test teams to ensure proper integration and testing.
• Develop and coordinate system-level verification and validation activities.
• Maintain technical documentation and capture system configurations and interfaces.
• Create user-facing materials including operating procedures and user manuals.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Systems engineering

Test planning

Technical writing

Documentation

Tools

DOORS

Jira

Confluence

Cameo

Job description

What You'll Get To Do

Support the integration, verification, and delivery of advanced technical systems for critical national security missions. You'll coordinate across hardware, software, firmware, and test teams to ensure complex systems are properly integrated, tested, documented, and ready for use.

More About The Role

As a Test Engineer, you'll help manage system integration activities, develop and coordinate test plans, track requirements and technical issues, and support system‑level verification and validation. You'll work closely with engineering teams to maintain technical documentation, capture system configurations and interfaces, and develop user‑facing materials including operating procedures and user manuals.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience supporting systems engineering, system integration, or technical test activities for complex hardware/software systems.
• Experience developing and managing integration plans, test plans, test procedures, and verification activities.
• Ability to coordinate technical work across software, hardware, firmware, and other engineering disciplines.
• Experience documenting system architecture, interfaces, configurations, requirements, and test results.
• Experience tracking technical issues, integration dependencies, risks, and corrective actions through resolution.
• Strong technical writing skills with experience developing clear engineering and operational documentation.
• Ability to translate engineering information into user manuals, operating procedures, installation guides, or training materials.
• Familiarity with requirements management, configuration management, and verification/validation processes.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting UAS, robotics, embedded systems, communications, sensor systems, or other integrated technical platforms.
• Experience managing hardware/software integration in laboratory, prototype, or rapid‑development environments.
• Familiarity with requirements traceability and systems engineering tools such as DOORS, Jira, Confluence, Cameo, or similar.
• Experience planning and executing system‑level acceptance, functional, regression, or field testing.
• Experience developing interface control documents, system specifications, test reports, and release documentation.
• Familiarity with configuration baselines, version control, change management, and release processes.
• Experience working directly with end users to capture feedback and improve system usability and documentation.
• Familiarity with MBSE or SysML is beneficial but not required.

Company Overview

BTS Software Solutions is a Service‑Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business who are community‑focused innovators who transform ideas into technology to serve people. We recognize that innovation is only valuable when applied towards a needed solution. Technology has no value without the hard work to turn ideas into reality. Our roots are in helping save Soldiers' lives through technology. We bring that ethos to serving our community. We create solutions that touch people's lives - products to communicate, to connect companies with customers, to stay informed, to save lives, and to enhance lives. We have a small company persona with a large company ethos and capabilities; we create elegant solutions for complex problems that will enrich people's lives. We offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry: Competitive health benefits package, PTO, 401K matching and vested from day one to name just a few of our benefits and perks.

BTS Software Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.