Test and Evaluation Engineer / Integrated Test Team Member

Location: San Diego, CA
Salary: $160,000–$200,000
Clearance: Active Top Secret required
Travel: Approximately 8–10 domestic trips annually, averaging seven days and six nights per trip

Osprey Talent Solutions is seeking a Test and Evaluation Engineer for a client supporting Government technical programs in San Diego.

You'll join a multidisciplinary product team responsible for planning, conducting, documenting, and improving testing for systems, subsystems, hardware assemblies, support equipment, and associated technical documentation. Working directly with the Product Owner in a SAFe Agile environment, you'll translate requirements and user needs into measurable tests and evidence supporting engineering decisions and Government acceptance.

What you'll do:

• Develop test strategies, plans, procedures, cases, verification matrices, schedules, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct developmental, integration, functional, regression, hardware, and system-level testing in laboratory, field, and operationally representative environments.
• Evaluate cables, assemblies, adapters, fixtures, and other fabricated hardware against approved drawings, specifications, workmanship standards, and functional requirements.
• Use test equipment and instrumentation to collect data, analyze results, and document findings.
• Identify and track failures, anomalies, and deficiencies; support root-cause analysis and verify corrective actions.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, acceptance criteria, test procedures, results, and corrective actions.
• Prepare technical reports, engineering analyses, verification documentation, and progress reports.
• Participate in engineering reviews, test readiness reviews, configuration-control activities, and Agile planning and delivery events.
• Collaborate with engineering, logistics, configuration management, cybersecurity, technicians, and Government stakeholders.
• Maintain configuration control of test articles and documentation, and support test asset accountability, shipping, receiving, and inventory activities.

Required qualifications:

• At least five years of experience in engineering test and evaluation, systems integration, verification and validation, hardware testing, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, physical science, or a closely related technical discipline. A combination of relevant education, training, and progressively responsible technical experience demonstrating equivalent capability may also qualify.
• Experience developing or executing test procedures, collecting and analyzing test data, documenting results, and tracking deficiencies through resolution.
• Active Top Secret clearance and the ability to meet and maintain program access and training requirements.

Preferred experience:

• Navy, warfare center, defense acquisition, research and development, or comparable Federal technical programs.
• Testing electronic, electrical, mechanical, communications, software-enabled, or integrated hardware/software systems.
• SAFe Agile, integrated product teams, or DevSecOps environments.
• Requirements management, configuration management, product data management, defect tracking, and Agile workflow tools such as Jira.
• Interpreting technical drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, system manuals, and engineering change documentation.
• Cable fabrication, assembly inspection, first-article inspection, functional testing, or production quality assurance.
• Relevant training or certifications in systems engineering, test and evaluation, Agile/SAFe, quality assurance, configuration management, or project management.

Travel and benefits:

Travel supports testing, engineering integration, hardware delivery and inspection, technical meetings, field activities, and program reviews. Potential destinations include Charleston, SC; Virginia Beach, VA; Wallops Island, VA; St. Petersburg, FL; and other Government-directed locations.

Benefits include HMO/PPO medical options, an employer-sponsored Health Reimbursement Arrangement, 401(k), dental and vision coverage, company-paid life insurance, voluntary life and AD&D coverage, pet insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays.

Apply through Osprey Talent Solutions for consideration.