Principal Test Engineer

Job ID: 2617641
Location: Colorado Springs, CO, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-06
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Test Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID
Description
SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Test Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Test Engineer is responsible for development and execution of system test solutions in accordance with engineering documentation to ensure test plans and methodologies meet system needs, are accurate, comprehensive, consistent, and complete.
Job Duties:

• Participate, prepare, and execute comprehensive subsystem and enterprise-level test plans and procedures, and support system/element level test planning and test readiness reviews.
• Document test requirements and methodologies in the requirements management system.
• Support the development of system integration plans, procedures and scenarios used in the conduct of software/hardware system integration testing.
• Development of innovative Test Automation solutions and support the software development teams focused on DevSecOps solutions.
• Ensure personnel management actions are completed, and tasks are conducted in accordance with contract requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and nine plus (9+) years' of relevant experience.
• Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience in using a requirements management tool, such as DOORS.
• Familiarity or experience with continuous integration and deployment environments and tools such as Bamboo.
• Experience with version control tools such as Bitbucket.
• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.

Desired:

• Familiarity or experience with Agile software development methodologies, i.e., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, to include use of Jira and Confluence.
• Experience sustaining UEWR and/or PARCS ground based radar systems.
• Experience in writing scripts using scripting languages such as Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, Python, Perl, bash, tcl, etc.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .