Test Engineer (UAS) (Finance)

OSS is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, AL. We are focused on "Making a Difference" in the lives of our Department of Defense Customers, Communities, and Employees. Our greatest strength is our people. We expect competence and character and look for uniquely skilled and passionate individuals bound by a collective vision to bring their best to our mission. OSS believes in taking great care of our employees, evidenced by our exemplary benefits package: OSS covers 75% of the monthly insurance cost towards employee Health Insurance, we offer multiple Principal product options, and we have a fantastic 401k plan match with eligibility to start immediately upon hire. If you are interested in an opportunity to join a great mission, supporting awesome customers with a growing company, please reach out to us to learn more!

OSS is seeking a Test Engineer to assist in the development, coordination, and staffing of Test & Evaluation Master Plans (TEMP) which may include Design of Experiments (DoE) & Developmental Evaluation Framework (DEF) strategies in support of Launched Effects. The candidate will support the Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Product Office (PO). This position is located in Huntsville, AL.

Responsibilities may include but not be limited to:

• Plan, document, coordinate, manage, execute, and report Test and Evaluation (T&E) functions for a weapon system.
• Develop, coordinate, monitor, or evaluate requirements within a Statement of work for a weapon system.
• Develop, coordinate, monitor, or evaluate requirements within a Specification in a weapon system acquisition process.
• Ensure a weapon system is within compliance of its lower level requirements (i.e., MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461/464).
• Developing T&E unique requirements (i.e., Critical Operational Issues and Criteria; Measures of Effectiveness; or Measures of Performance) for a weapon system modification or new design.
• Perform requirements traceability from a Capability Production Document/Capability Development Document to a system specification or a system specification to a test plan.
• Execute and/or coordinate system performance level testing (example: aviation flight, system of systems, command and control, network, software, etc.) in support of a program office test program.
• Execute developmental testing (DT) of systems, subsystems, components, or associated systems qualification in support of a weapon system to determine conformance with test requirements (i.e. Transportability, Mobility, E3, Climatic, NBC Analysis, High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), Cold Environments, Tropic Environments, etc.).
• Developing, coordinating, or maintaining test plans, test procedures and/or test reports for an acquisition weapons program component, subsystem, system or System of Systems.
• Develop and/or update a Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) in support of a weapon system program.
• Support operational testing such as: Limited User Test (LUT), Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E), or Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation (FOT&E).
• Support a T&E Working Integrated Product Team (WIPT) in the development of a test program for a weapon system.
• Development of T&E strategies and crosswalks of Capability Development Document (CDD) / Capability Product Document (CPD) requirements through the T&E process, evaluate testability of requirements & develop methodologies for the testing of these requirements.
• Test Management & Support of test planning, coordination, execution, safety releases, airworthiness, frequency allocations, development of detailed test plans, data collection plans, data management plans, data analysis plans, test reports, quick-look briefings, test readiness reviews, and resource allocation management for but not limited to the following: system and system of systems (SoS) performance, climactic, transportability/mobility, E3, NBC analysis, dynamics, safety, reliability, air drop, lethality, airworthiness, command & control (C2) environments, missile open air & live fire, aviation flight/ground, integrated & standalone sensors testing.

Qualifications:

• ABET accredited Bachelor of Science in Engineering is required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of U.S. Army aviation-related technical experience is required. UAS experience is highly desired.
• Program Management Office experience desired.
• Professional experience using Microsoft Office applications to include Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, and Word is required.
• Candidate must possess strong oral and written communication skills.
• Must be a self-starter that thrives in a dynamic team environment.
• Candidate must possess a proven ability to develop and provide reports to management.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance and the ability to maintain such is required.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)