Top Test Engineer Jobs

Designs, analyzes, and implements RF test plans, procedures, architectures, and automation for satellite and aerospace communication systems. Develops reusable test systems, performs RF measurements, analyzes results, manages laboratory equipment, supports design-for-test activities, and guides equipment purchasing. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, presents findings to customers and executives, and contributes to proposals. The role requires expertise in RF instrumentation, test architecture, statistics, metrology, and hardware-software integration.

Analyzes and diagnoses autonomous vehicle system faults across perception, planning, and AI software using on-road and simulation data. The role triages and prioritizes safety issues, performs root-cause analysis, identifies failure trends, develops tooling and workflows, and produces reports that guide engineering and leadership decisions on vehicle quality, safety, and robustness.

Owns and improves production and engineering test equipment, including PLC controls, instrumentation, data acquisition, HMI applications, and automated test systems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, software, and controls issues; designing and upgrading test stands; integrating sensors, PLCs, servo systems, and measurement hardware; supporting product testing; leading root-cause investigations; and maintaining technical documentation, calibration, maintenance, and software records.

Build, align, and operate optical test setups for laser and optical communications hardware. Measure optical performance, analyze data, develop and execute test procedures, support satellite integration and field campaigns, automate measurements, investigate anomalies, and maintain calibration and configuration records. The role requires hands-on optics laboratory work, precision alignment, optical test equipment operation, Python-based analysis, and laser safety practices.

Designs, develops, maintains, troubleshoots, and improves automated test equipment for aerospace and electronic products. Responsibilities include hardware and software design, LabVIEW and TestStand programming, test procedure development, data analysis, configuration management, root-cause analysis, and validation. The role leads multifunctional capital test engineering projects, supports product development and sustaining activities, and ensures compliance with customer, quality, cost, schedule, and regulatory requirements.

Designs, implements, and maintains automated test frameworks, scripts, test cases, and system test environments. Conducts integration, acceptance, security certification, and system testing; analyzes defects and supports root-cause remediation. Reviews test plans and reports, manages software and hardware baselines, integrates code into builds, and provides test status, metrics, audit support, and decision materials. Collaborates with developers, government stakeholders, and cross-functional teams while ensuring compliance with FBI and program standards.

Design, fabricate, commission, and improve experimental systems, prototype hardware, laboratory equipment, and test infrastructure for advanced reactor technology. Investigate technical problems through engineering analysis and hands-on experimentation; integrate mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, instrumentation, software, and control systems; develop testing, automation, and data acquisition solutions; troubleshoot hardware; document procedures and results; and support facility commissioning, operation, and maintenance.

Develop and deploy PCBA end-of-line functional test systems for production. Responsibilities include creating automated tests and fixtures, interfacing with embedded communication protocols, supporting PCBA bring-up and validation, analyzing yield data, troubleshooting failures, maintaining test documentation and equipment, and deploying systems with contract manufacturers. The role requires collaboration with electrical and firmware engineers to improve coverage, quality, and production performance.

Conduct functional, regression, integration, acceptance, and ad-hoc testing of custom and containerized software. Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to resolve defects, perform root cause analysis, create test cases, document results, and improve testing procedures. Coordinate software demonstrations, operational tests, and inspections, including on-site testing at classified government facilities. Support missile warning and missile defense software applications.

Develops automated optical and electrical test solutions for silicon photonic integrated circuits. Responsibilities include test planning, instrument control, data acquisition, device characterization, high-speed measurement, calibration, data analysis, troubleshooting, and improving test coverage and reliability. The role uses Linux, Python, and C/C++ and collaborates with cross-functional teams supporting semiconductor technology development and product qualification.

Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks, scripts, and reusable testing artifacts for distributed applications. Test REST and SOAP APIs, query databases, integrate automation into Jenkins and Git CI/CD pipelines, and implement effective test strategies. Collaborate with Agile delivery, QA, and SDET teams to improve automation standards, delivery velocity, and software quality.

Develop and execute automated hardware and software qualification tests across production, environmental compliance, and HIL environments. Build test fixtures and software frameworks, operate laboratory instrumentation, support embedded hardware and firmware integration, troubleshoot failures, and document verification artifacts. Collaborate with hardware, firmware, production, and external qualification laboratories to ensure product reliability, compliance, and test coverage. The role requires up to 20% travel to third-party labs and customer integration sites.

Develop automated test scripts and strategies using Java and testing frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, and Rest Assured. Perform functional, regression, system, data, API, JSON, XML, and database testing; generate test data; validate results; document defects; and support Agile requirements in JIRA. The role requires collaboration throughout the software development lifecycle and hybrid work in Ashburn, Virginia.

Develops and maintains production manufacturing test software for autonomous vehicle components and systems. Automates configuration, verification, and testing; improves test coverage and capacity; transitions prototypes into reliable production platforms; integrates tests with MES, PLM, databases, and traceability systems; enhances operator interfaces; and collaborates across manufacturing, quality, embedded, IT, and cybersecurity teams.

Tests software supporting the Sentinel ICBM system, verifies requirements, supports safety certification and formal reviews, and serves as a software subject matter expert. The role develops test procedures, evaluates software systems engineering artifacts, coordinates with stakeholders, and communicates issues to developers. It requires C++, software testing tools, secure coding knowledge, encryption standards, DevSecOps pipelines, and Secret clearance, with preferred aerospace and developmental or operational test experience.

Develops and supervises testing for plastic container products, including test procedure development, methodology research, data analysis, reporting, and communication. Maintains testing equipment and procedures, supports production trials and customer evaluations, coordinates external testing, and addresses product performance issues. The role follows ISO quality processes, uses SAP and Microsoft Office, supports technical training, and requires safe forklift operation and 10% travel.

Leads complex EMI/EMC test campaigns for electronic systems and subsystems, including test planning, equipment setup, execution, data analysis, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and compliance reporting. Develops and approves procedures, coordinates readiness reviews and facilities, recommends mitigation strategies, and mentors engineers and technicians. Collaborates with design and systems teams and supports occasional travel, extended work weeks, and weekend testing.

Develop test automation tools and frameworks for cloud-based products and AI features, including skills, agents, and MCP servers. Automate test execution against deployed environments in collaboration with DevOps, identify and prioritize defects with application developers, and support QA needs through daily cross-functional communication. The role is remote, aligned to Eastern U.S. hours, with approximately two weeks of travel annually and occasional off-hours support.

Leads the design and development of software infrastructure for testing satellite components, hardware, software, and system interfaces. Develops Python automation, integrates flight hardware and instrumentation, analyzes test data, troubleshoots software-hardware failures, and improves manufacturing test processes. Provides technical leadership, manages projects and milestones, delegates work, and delivers reliable test systems for production and engineering verification.

Defines and executes manual and automated software test cases for medical device products, validates results against specifications and requirements, documents test activities, maintains test fixtures, investigates issues, and escalates findings in a regulated environment. Collaborates on technical reviews, prepares project documentation, and supports testing of embedded Linux systems, Windows services, SQL platforms, and virtual environments.

Leads verification and validation strategies, hands-on subsystem and system testing, test fixture and laboratory setup development, statistical analysis, failure investigations, technical documentation, and process automation for complex medical automation systems. Collaborates cross-functionally with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Product, and Automation teams while mentoring junior engineers and improving reliability and test coverage.

Leads functional, integration, qualification, and acceptance testing for complex aerospace and communications hardware systems. Develops verification plans, test procedures, instrumentation strategies, and automated test configurations; directs test execution; analyzes data and investigates failures; validates corrective actions; manages laboratory equipment and calibration; and documents results. Collaborates across electrical, mechanical, RF, software, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams while ensuring configuration control, ESD, FOD, and AS9100 compliance.

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Supports manufacturing, integration, troubleshooting, and testing of complex electronic, electro-optical, and infrared imaging systems. Develops automated test solutions, fixtures, and procedures; leads root-cause investigations and corrective actions; analyzes production data; supports NPI transitions; and improves manufacturability, testability, quality, yield, and throughput. Provides technical guidance to manufacturing personnel while collaborating with design engineering, quality, and operations teams.

Set technical direction for AI-enabled automation across build, CI, testing, and release. Build agent harnesses and integrations with GitLab, Jira, test results, logs, and observability systems. Develop evaluation methods, guardrails, and auditability for nondeterministic automation. Deliver quality engineering capabilities such as failure attribution, defect deduplication, coverage-gap analysis, and release-readiness summaries while mentoring engineers and guiding cross-team adoption.