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Job overview
The Test Engineer supports test planning, analysis, and verification, helping engineering and test stakeholders evaluate capability performance, investigate problems, and document mitigation and verification outcomes. The position is contingent upon contract award and includes work on developmental, operational, follow-on software, and Government acceptance test analyses, as well as coordinated testing that may involve multiple sites.
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Come Join Our Team! First Division Consulting (FirstDiv) provides program management, acquisition, logistics, field service representative, explosive ordnance disposal, and personnel support services to Department of Defense and Federal Government Agencies. We are a Small Business Administration certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and a Small Disadvantaged Business. If you are looking for a company who has an overall rating on Glassdoor of 4.8 and who puts their people first, then continue to read below and join the FirstDiv team!
**Position is contingent upon contract award
The Test Engineer supports test planning, analysis, and verification with accurate procedures and evidence-based results. You will help engineering and test stakeholders evaluate capability performance, investigate problems, and document mitigation and verification outcomes.
Responsibilities
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Analyze requirements for testability and prepare status inputs for the Test and Evaluation (T&E) Lead.
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Support trade studies, process flows, baseline performance measurements, and engineering problem analysis.
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Prepare test plans and procedures and maintain supporting analysis and presentations.
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Contribute technical-risk assessments, mitigation plans, and corrective-action and verification activities.
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Participate in developmental, operational, follow-on software, and Government acceptance test analyses.
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Document system verification results and support coordinated testing, including multi-site activities as assigned.
Requirements
Required qualifications
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8 years of experience performing professional services associated with test planning, analysis, and verification.
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Bachelor’s Degree.
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Ability to develop test products, analyze engineering problems, and connect verification results to requirements and supporting evidence.
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Meet applicable background investigation, CAC, network, facility, and duty-specific classified-access requirements.
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Secret Clearance
Preferred qualifications
Experience with DoD system testing, test procedures, requirements verification, defect analysis, and C2 engineering support.
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, STD, LTD, holidays, Paid Time Off to include Maternity/Paternity leave, and 401(k) plan with company match.
FirstDiv is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,136 open Test Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Virginia median$90–145K/yr97 salary ranges
- US median$41–57/hr170 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 181 open Test Engineer jobs in Virginia and 3,136 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Test Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,630 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,655 of the 3,136 open Test Engineer jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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