Test Program Manager

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Job Number: R0235349 Test Program Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with strategic program leadership to ensure mission‑critical national security space systems are thoroughly tested, validated, and ready for operational use? Do you understand how complex space and ground systems move from development through integration, verification, operational test, and final acceptance? If so, join the Space Sensing Systems Engineering and Integration (SE & I) team and help deliver resilient, high‑confidence space capabilities to the warfighter.

As a Test Program Manager, you will lead the planning, integration, and execution of system‑level test and verification activities across development, integration, and transition to operations. You will ensure that the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System (USNDS) ground segment meets performance, reliability, cybersecurity, and operational readiness requirements prior to operational acceptance and sustainment.

You will work across government, FFRDC, and contractor teams to define and execute test strategies aligned with DoD acquisition milestones. Your leadership will ensure disciplined verification and validation (V & V), integrated test planning, operational readiness certification, and smooth transition into sustained operations.

Your client will rely on you to coordinate with the contractor testing team to manage integrated test plans, coordinate developmental and operational test activities, manage risk and defect resolution, and provide data‑driven assessments of system readiness. You will chair test working groups, support major program reviews such as Test Readiness Reviews and System Verification Reviews, and ensure traceability between requirements, verification methods, and operational outcomes.

You will also engage directly with operators and warfighters to ensure test scenarios reflect real‑world mission use and operational constraints.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 6+ years of experience supporting large‑scale national security space missions in systems engineering, integration, or test
• 5+ years of experience leading or supporting system‑level test programs for DoD space or ground software systems
• Experience developing and executing integrated test strategies across developmental test (DT), integration test, system test, and operational test (OT)
• Experience with verification and validation (V & V), requirements traceability, test readiness reviews, and operational readiness reviews
• Experience coordinating cross‑functional teams across engineering, cybersecurity, operations, and sustainment
• Experience supporting DoD acquisition programs and milestone reviews
• Knowledge of systems engineering life‑cycle processes, including requirements development, integration, verification, validation, and configuration management
• Ability to communicate clearly and provide senior leadership with objective readiness assessments and risk insights
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field

• Experience leading agile software programs or test campaigns for agile software programs
• Experience supporting ground segment integration tests
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, mission‑driven environment
• Experience with test automation, modeling and simulation, or digital engineering environments
• TS / SCI clearance
• Master's degree in a STEM‑related field

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Secret clearance is required.

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