Senior Test & Evaluation Support Specialist

The Marlin Alliance, Inc.

Senior Test & Evaluation Support Specialist leading T&E activities for U.S. Navy Systems Command program office.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeSan Diego • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $155,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and support planning, execution, direction, documentation, and reporting for experimental, developmental, and operational test events across operational, hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), virtual, and other applicable environments.
Develop and coordinate test objectives, procedures, schedules, data collection plans, test reports, briefings, after-action materials, and other deliverables to ensure test activities are organized, traceable, and aligned to program objectives.
Serve as a senior test lead during operational test events by coordinating participants, managing execution flow, tracking issues, capturing observations, and ensuring results are clearly documented and communicated.
Coordinate cross-functional teams of engineers, developers, operators, analysts, and program personnel to support integrated testing of complex Navy capabilities across technical and operational environments.
Apply experience with mission engineering, fires, modeling and simulation, and data analytics to help inform system design, operational concepts, test objectives, performance assessments, and risk-based recommendations.
Support testing and evaluation of communications systems, routing, broadcast capabilities, tactical networks, datalinks, and Aegis Weapon System (AWS) related capabilities, as applicable to program needs.
Provide leadership and management support within team-of-teams environments by coordinating priorities, tracking action items, communicating status, supporting issue resolution, and mentoring less experienced test personnel.
Communicate test objectives, execution status, technical findings, operational impacts, risks, and recommendations clearly across operational, technical, program management, and executive audiences.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience planning, test directing, executing, documenting, and reporting on operational testing.
Demonstrated leadership and management capability within cross-functional technical and operational team-of-teams environments.
Ability to coordinate engineers, developers, operators, analysts, and program stakeholders in support of complex test events.
Experience developing or reviewing test documentation, test reports, briefings, after-action materials, and other deliverables used to capture results, observations, issues, risks, and recommendations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical information for operational, program, and executive audiences.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate tasks, communicate status, manage stakeholders, support issue resolution, and provide senior-level test support in a dynamic program environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

test planningtest executiontest documentationdata analyticsmodeling and simulationoperational testingtest reportingtest objectives developmentperformance assessmentsrisk-based recommendations

Soft Skills

leadershipmanagementcommunicationcoordinationissue resolutionmentoringstakeholder managementorganizational skillsteam collaborationstatus reporting