Software Integration & Testing Engineer

Responsibilities

The Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) under NESDIS is responsible for advancing space weather observational capabilities to meet NOAA programmatic needs. NOAA’s Space Weather Next (SWX) program maintains and extends space weather observations from various vantage points, selected to most efficiently provide comprehensive knowledge of the Sun and the near-Earth space environment needed to protect our technological infrastructure.

The Space Weather Ground Services (SWGS) is responsible for comprehensive ground services for all SWX projects, ensuring successful implementation and operation of observing assets and ensuring the continuity of space weather measurements made by SWFO-L1 and the GOES-R series satellites.

The SWGS Mission Operations Services (MOS) program must provide a full mission satellite command and control solution to support the L1 Series with two new independently launched observatories.

Overview:

Peraton is seeking a Software Integration & Test Engineer to support Software Integration Test and Check Out (ITCO) activities across a new satellite ground system development program supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This position will support all Software Engineering activities throughout the full system lifecycle—from architecture and design through integration, assessment, authorization, and operational deployment.

The selected candidate will be responsible for supporting the program’s ITCO function. This role requires close collaboration with other program functional elements including Systems Engineering, Cyber, Networks, Infrastructure, Architecture, Operations, Quality and program leadership.

• Perform system level software integration and test (I&T) activities for Satellite Ground Station Command and Control applications ensuring system compatibility to meet program technical, schedule and cost objectives. This includes the test and integration of COTS-based systems and custom software, from the system design phase through development, documentation, installation, and commissioning of the completed system
• Generate test plans and procedures for the verification and validation (V&V) of software components to ensure requirements traceability and test cases to allow requirement V&V
• Support test readiness reviews, formal system verification of the system requirements and final test reports
• Organize, execute, and report on software testing
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing and efficient use of resources
• Utilize RedHat Enterprise Linux to resolve configuration issues and integrate Red Hat Linux systems with other existing environments
• Create and modify bash scripts
• Write and edit scripts in Python, Perl, Powershell, Java, C,etc.
• Utilize JIRA in an Agile development environment
• Support development