Acara Solutions is hiring a Junior Test Engineer

Hours: Standard Business Hours
Location: Overland Park, KS or Atlantic City, NJ - MUST be able to travel to Overland Park, KS 50% of the time

We are currently looking for a Junior Test Engineer who is self-motivated, a critical thinker and with a strong technical background, to join the Radar Test Engineering Team in Overland Park, Kansas. This team is responsible for development and test of a next generation state of the art secondary radar system for the FAA, as well as providing deployment site support. The Test Engineering team guides all technical aspects of system test through the formal test process. With inputs from the system architects, the Test Engineering team defines the test approaches and test success criteria for each system requirement which result in integration and test procedures to validate the system to customer requirements. Additionally, the Test Engineering team applies their knowledge of the system's hardware, software, and networks to support and conduct test design reviews and perform system integration on multiple radar subsystems and external interfaces. The Test Engineering team also conducts formal in-plant test, and on-site development test campaigns for the validation of the FAA secondary radar system.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working on all phases of the test program, including planning, test approach and test success criteria development, test procedure development, test dry-runs, test conduct and test report development
• Responsible for mapping requirements into Test Phases, Test Events, Test Methods, Test Procedures and Test Cases
• Responsible for formulating and defining effective test approaches and success criteria through research and fact-finding to solve complex testing problems
• Responsible for system integration, debug (both hardware and software) and root cause analysis throughout the design, test and deployment phases.
• Responsible for conducting formal in-plant development tests in the presence of the FAA and other witnesses
• May be required to conduct formal on-site development tests in the presence of the FAA and other witnesses
• Responsible for performing data analysis on data collected at various stages of test
• Participation in developing Test Design Review Material in accordance with requirement test approaches.
• May be required to participate in field test activities, primarily equipment tuning and optimization.
• Able to learn technical information from written material
• Ability to identify test methods and to write detail technical documentation
• Customer facing ( good communication & customer service skills)

Pay Rate: $39/hr.

Requirements:

• US Citizenship or Green Card Holder Required
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or appropriate engineering field of study with a minimum 1-4+ years of experience or Master's degree in electrical engineering or appropriate engineering field with 0-2+ years of experience
• Surveillance experience and/or Radar
• Must have experience writing test procedures- Has wrote/developed formal test procedure (This is much more than just running test procedures)
• Understanding for formal test process
• Understanding on how to test both SW and HW (system level testing)
• Good understanding of surveillance or radar. Must be comfortable speaking to a small group and demo the product to customers and answer their questions.

Special Position Requirements:

This position will be required to obtain a Public Trust Clearance-US Citizenship or Green Card Holder Required