Software Test Engineer 2/3 (AHT)
Northrop Grumman
- Location
- Onsite (Los Angeles, CA,US)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons is seeking a Software Test Engineer to support the development of next-generation missile weapon systems. The role involves defining test objectives, authoring test plans, and performing hands-on troubleshooting and integration in a lab environment.
Skills
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
Perks
- Relocation assistance
Full job details
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons has an opening for an Object Oriented Software Test Engineer 2/3 with an active clearance, to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The selected candidate for this position is required to be on-site at our Northridge, CA location. Relocation assistance, while not guaranteed, may be available.
As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in the Advanced Weapons division, you will be on the forefront of developing next-generation solutions to protect technology for our nation’s warfighters. The ideal candidate will be supporting one of our programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. This position may require collaboration with team members of other disciplines, such as software and systems engineering within the organization for requirements validity.
Roles and Responsibilities:
A successful candidate will have the qualities and essential functional expertise with:
- Author Software Test Plans, Procedures, Subsystem Acceptance Test Procedures, and Test Reports.
- Generate test artifacts for developmental, integration, qualification, and acceptance testing.
- Develop automated test approaches for new software capabilities.
- Compile test data, identify gaps, and recommend procedural changes.
- Perform hands‑on troubleshooting and support organic/COTS SW/HW integration in the labs.
- Working with SW development teams to document and resolve SW issues.
Basic Qualifications for a Software Engineer level (T02) and Principal Engineer level(T03):
- US Citizenship and Active DoD Secret Clearance.
- For Software Integration and Test Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 2+ years of experience or Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of experience.
- For Principal Integration and Test Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 5+ years of experience or Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of experience.
- Extensive experience defining test objectives from requirements, writing Software Test Plans, test procedures, performing dry runs and Formal Qualification Tests, code inspections, performing post-processing analysis, writing Test Readiness Reviews and Test Reports.
- Advanced hands‑on system troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis.
- Experience working in a Lab environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Working experience in Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.
- Familiar with setting up test benches and using test equipment (Oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.).
- Experience working with requirements development.