Requirements Analyst & Systems Engineer – Active Secret Clearance

Position Title: Requirements Analyst / Systems Engineer – Active Secret Clearance

Location: Washington D.C.

Assignment Type: Contract to Hire

Pay Rate: $60 - $65 / Hr

Work Schedule: 3 Days Onsite in DC

Benefits: This position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Job Description:

Addison Group is partnering with a growing IT services firm that supports DoD mission systems to find a Requirements Analyst / Systems Engineer. This is a great opportunity for an early-career professional who likes figuring out what a system needs to do and then proving that it does.

You’ll work directly with the military operators who use mission-critical software every day, turn what they tell you into clear, testable requirements, and write the test procedures that verify each software release. Just as important, you’ll explain why a request should or shouldn’t be built, and stand behind that recommendation.

Our client hires for talent and drive over years on a résumé. Candidates with an active Secret clearance and 0–4 years of experience are encouraged to apply.

What You’ll Do

Requirements Gathering & Analysis

• Meet with operators, subject matter experts, and government leads through interviews, site visits, and demos to understand mission workflows and pain points
• Break customer and contract requirements down into clear, testable requirements that can be weighed against the effort to build them
• Capture non-functional requirements such as performance, reliability, and security
• Maintain traceability from operator input through design and test

Prioritization

• Log every operator request in the backlog, link it to existing requirements, and track it to a decision
• Weigh requests against mission value, technical constraints, and the existing backlog, then recommend build, defer, or decline and explain why
• Reconcile conflicting input from different stakeholders and close the loop with operators on what was decided

Documentation

• Document requirements, use cases, and workflows in formats both operators and developers understand
• Write user stories with measurable acceptance criteria, including Given-When-Then (Gherkin) scenarios
• Use quick prototypes or mockups to confirm intent with operators before development begins
• Produce workflow diagrams, meeting minutes, and test reports

Test Support

• Write step-by-step test procedures that operators and developers can follow
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for software releases
• Log defects with clear reproduction steps and verify fixes
• Write basic scripts for test data and log checks, and help automate repeatable tests with the test lead

Collaboration

• Work alongside developers, test leads, cybersecurity staff, and program management in an Agile environment
• Participate in sprint planning, technical exchange meetings, and customer reviews
• Brief findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Required Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship
• 0–4 years of experience in systems engineering, requirements analysis, business analysis, software testing, or QA (internships, co-ops, and capstone projects count)
• Experience gathering requirements from end users or stakeholders and writing them as clear, testable statements with measurable acceptance criteria
• Experience writing and executing test cases or test procedures
• Basic scripting in at least one language (e.g., Python, Bash, JavaScript)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and a backlog or defect-tracking tool (e.g., Jira, Git Lab, Azure Dev Ops)
• Strong, structured written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain a recommendation and the tradeoffs…