Northrop Grumman is looking for a Missile Defense Test Architect 5 to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world, specifically in the area of missile defense testing.
Requirements
- Experience developing standard operating procedures for missile processing, test plans, master test plans and test reports.
- Experience with the full lifecycle of a missile defense product
- Ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning technical concepts
- Current U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance adjudicated within the past 5 years and the ability to upgrade to a Top-Secret Security Clearance level.
- Current Top-Secret Clearance adjudicated within the past 5 years
- Experience with missile defense systems including launch, targeting and fire control systems.
- Wide knowledge of testing strategies in hardware and software
Responsibilities
- Development of the approach to complete the missile system lifecycle testing including: prototyping, design verification testing, environmental qualification testing, functional qualification testing, and acceptance testing
- Ownership of the development and qualification hardware utilization matrix, to include units under test, software configuration, special test equipment, and software for special test equipment
- Development of test requirements and constraints to ensure test resources are necessary and sufficient to meet program testing requirements.
- Establish test strategies and use cases to ensure in development that the system is designed correctly and in production the system is produced correctly.
- Developing and establishing test requirements and constraints across the product lifecycle.
- Oversight of the transition of Special Test Equipment from DVT to Qualification to Production
- Oversight of the development of test plans for sustainment at the depot and for fielded assets.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with 12+ years of experience OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years of experience.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
- Ability to work full-time, on-site at our facility in Northridge, CA.
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
