SSDS Test Director
BAE Systems · Wallops Island, VA · Engineering & Technology
About this role
BAE Systems is hiring a director-level QA Engineer in the software engineering function based in Wallops Island, VA. The posting calls out experience with Security. Compensation is listed at $59,023–$100,339 per year.
- Role
- QA Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- director
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Wallops Island, VA
- Department
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from BAE Systems careersJob Description BAE Systems is seeking experienced SSDS Operations Test Directors to be part of our dynamic technical team, located in Wallops Island, VA at the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC). The SCSC is located on a barrier island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and is a tenant of the NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. SCSC provides live combat systems suites with platform specific radars and sensors and supports the following functions: combat system lifetime support engineering, platform certification, operational and technical evaluation, combat system training, interoperability testing and participates in at-sea exercises. SCSC provides a high-fidelity representative combat system of every ship in the AEGIS, Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) fleet today and those planned in the future. The selected candidate will: Setup mission events utilizing a daily site element schedule Coordinate the check-out and installation of computer programs and electronic data Energize and initialize computers and combat system elements Establish interface switch paths Perform system checkout, and other site preparations necessary to ensure the readiness of the requested systems and equipment to support a successful mission event Perform systematic take down at the completion of the mission event Prepare and initiate comprehensive mission operations reports Coordinate system level…