Systems Test Engineer

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work”, has exciting opportunities providing Engineering solutions for innovative new-entrant space companies, as well as established space systems manufacturers, commercial space system operators and service providers, and other industry stakeholders including investors.

At Stellar Solutions, we offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers’ critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management and strategic planning. We are a leading service and expertise provider for high-tech commercial ventures, spanning communications, earth observation and remote sensing systems and data products, to the infrastructures that support earth orbiting and beyond earth orbit businesses.

Stellar Solutions is seeking a Systems Test Engineer to support testing of next-generation strategic satellite communications capabilities. The engineer will bring test, verification, integration, and evaluation expertise to a Strategic SATCOM program office, helping establish objective evidence that complex systems satisfy requirements and are progressing toward mission readiness. The role also supports early identification and mitigation of technical and integration issues.

The Systems Test Engineer will contribute directly to developmental test and evaluation across complex space, ground, cryptographic, and hardware systems. Working with Government and program stakeholders, the engineer will translate requirements into executable test activities and verification evidence while supporting system-of-systems integration and test readiness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Perform test, verification, validation, and system integration activities supporting strategic SATCOM capabilities.
• Plan, execute, analyze, and report developmental test and evaluation activities.
• Translate requirements and interface specifications into test objectives, procedures, acceptance criteria, and verification evidence.
• Support Test Readiness Reviews and operational-test readiness activities.
• Support system-of-systems and space-to-ground integration testing.
• Identify deficiencies, technical risks, and areas requiring early mitigation and support resolution activities.
• Develop and maintain Test and Evaluation Master Plan content, System Test Plans, requirements verification plans, and test reports.
• Apply DAFMAN 63-119 Mission-Oriented Test Readiness Certification requirements to applicable activities.
• Collaborate with Government customers, FFRDCs, and associate contractor teammates to achieve program test objectives.
• Support requirements and verification traceability throughout test planning and execution.
• Independently complete complex test and integration tasks in a fast-paced program environment.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with test, verification, and system integration for major defense acquisition programs involving complex space, ground, cryptographic, or hardware systems.
• Experience supporting Government developmental test and evaluation programs within a Lead Developmental Test Organization.
• Experience planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting DT&E activities, including operational-test readiness and required test artifacts.
• Experience translating requirements and interface specifications into test objectives, procedures, acceptance criteria, and verification evidence.
• Experience with Test Readiness Reviews, system-of-systems testing, space-to-ground integration testing, and deficiency management.
• Experience with DAFMAN 63-119 Mission-Oriented Test Readiness Certification.
• Experience developing Test and Evaluation Master Plans, System Test Plans, and…