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# Systems/Test Engineer

- **Company:** AMERICAN SYSTEMS
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $96,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, System Configuration, Regression Testing, Subsystems, Systems Integration, Test Data, Strategies of Testing, Test Scripts, SC Clearance
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9040745/systemstest-engineer

## About the Role

* BS/BA and 5-7 years of test engineering and/or systems engineering experience (Related MPRA experience can be substituted for a degree).
 * Secret Clearance
 * Test and Integration experience on complex flight simulators

## Description

As a Systems/Test Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:

 * Plan, coordinate, and execute test activities for aircraft systems, subsystems, and integrated capabilities.
 * Develop test strategies, test plans, test procedures, test cases, and test reports for developmental, integration, qualification, verification, validation, and operational testing.
 * Support test events involving aircraft avionics, mission systems, communications, sensors, software, hardware, interfaces, and related subsystems.
 * Coordinate with systems engineers, software developers, hardware engineers, flight operations, maintenance personnel, and program leadership to prepare for and execute tests.
 * Define test objectives, success criteria, data requirements, resource needs, and test configurations.
 * Support test readiness reviews, safety reviews, technical interchange meetings, and post-test debriefs.
 * Conduct or support bench, lab, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, taxi, and flight test activities, as applicable.
 * Collect, analyze, and document test data, discrepancies, observations, and performance results.
 * Identify defects, anomalies, integration issues, and performance shortfalls and support corrective action efforts.
 * Ensure traceability between requirements, test procedures, test results, and verification evidence.
 * Support test environment setup, configuration control, instrumentation coordination, and data collection planning.
 * Prepare formal test documentation and status updates for program management, engineering leadership, customers, and certification authorities, as applicable.
 * Support regression testing, retesting, and validation of resolved deficiencies.
 * Ensure test activities are conducted in accordance with applicable safety, quality, airworthiness, and regulatory standards.


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