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Mission Control System Integration and Verification Engineering Support 1313099
2013-11-24 23:36:35| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Solenix is specialized in the provision of highquality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. This vacancy note concerns an onsite consulting position at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. Mission Control System Integration and Verification Engineering Support 1313099 Job Description The key person will provide hisher prime support to the integration and verification testing of the Monitoring Control System, but will also support integration and verification activities at Mission Control Function level including Flight Dynamics and Mission Planning Systems. The tasks of the key person will typically include Integration Verification activities Integration of the various components of a Monitoring Control System and integration of the Monitoring Control System with the rest of systems in the Mission Control Function. These integration activities include software deployment, software configuration, adjustment of interfaces, analysis and solution to problems, ... Generation and updates of test plan and test procedures both for the Monitoring Control System and at Mission Control Function level. This activity covers functional verification testing and nonregression testing manual and automatic testing. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results, troubleshooting of problems, ... Generation of test data and test tools that facilitate the software verification and non regression testing. Maintaining the verification status of the software requirement baseline for the Monitoring Control System. Software Maintenance Activities Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation of anomalies in the software systems and verification testing of the fixes. Technical Management Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. Routine reporting preparation and production of routine reports as necessary. Meeting participation participation to technical, progress and team meetings as needed and requested. Software engineering methodology Analysis activities focused on a common software engineering methodology and common software engineering tools for the GSI Mission Control Applications and Tools Team. Development of tools supporting these common software engineering methodologies. User Support Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. Training prepare and provide training covering endusage and maintenance aspects of the mission control facilities. Required Skills and Experience University degree in a relevant engineering discipline. Significant knowledge and experience in the area of software maintenance and testing. Experience in software maintenance and testing with the following mandatory areas System Integration Verification Skills Extensive experience minimum 3 years in integration activities for Satellite Monitoring Control Systems. This includes software deployment, software configuration, adjustment of interfaces and troubleshooting of problems both at subsystem and system level. Extensive experience minimum 3 years in verification testing activities of Satellite Monitoring Control Systems following formal software engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system and generation of test reports. Extensive experience minimum 5 years in the investigation of software anomalies and verification testing of fixes, preferably in the domain of Satellite Monitoring Control Systems. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Software Engineering Skills Experience in the maintenance of software applications following formal software engineering processes including at least configuration management, change management and anomaly reporting and tracking. Experience in developing and maintaining software applications using Java under UNIX operating systems. Experience in developing and maintaining software applications using C under UNIX operating systems. Experience with static and dynamic software analysis tools in support to testing and troubleshooting. Documentation and Configuration Management Skills Very good knowledge of MS Windows Office Suite applications and experience with documentation management systems. Experience in using configuration Management and anomaly reporting and tracking tools. Desirable Skills and Experience Knowledge and understanding of space related standards ECSS and CCSDS related to spacetoground interfaces and applicable to Satellite Monitoring Control Systems Packet Telemetry and Telecommand standards, PUS Packet Utilisation Standard, ... Experience with Monitoring Control Systems for LEO spacecraft. Experience with MICONYS Control System software from ESA. Experience with EPOCH IPS MC Product Suite from Integral Systems now KRA TOS. Knowledge of Flight Dynamics Systems. Knowledge of Mission Planning Systems. Experience with Satellite Simulators. IBM DOORS requirement management tool. Experience in version Control Systems CVS and SVN. Linux Operating System. Software applications using ODBCJDBC bridges and programmatic interfaces to MySQL RDBMS. Engineering of MySQL RDBMS. Administration of MySQL RDBMS. Interprocess communication mechanisms, in particular TCPIP and CORBA standards. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Eclipse Rich Client Platform applications development. shall be able to conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress and must be able to work with the minimum of supervision. The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of French. Work Location Darmstadt, Germany Dates Application Deadline 09 December 2013 Start of Work 01.03.2014 Important Notes Before applying to this position, please read the page Notes to Applicants on the Solenix website under Career. Applicants must be EU citizens or have a valid work and residence permit in Germany. Security, identity and reference checks on the candidates are part of the recruitment process. Job Application Please send your applications electronically to careersolenix.ch before the application deadline 09 December 2013 Learn more about us in Facebook
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