Principal Test Engineer
About The Position
Envision Innovative Solutions is seeking a Principal Test Engineer to support mission-focused technology programs for the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. The position is onsite in Columbia, Maryland, and works in a collaborative environment supporting national security programs. The Principal Test Engineer plans, coordinates, and manages program- and event-level testing and evaluation. The role develops evaluation and test plans and procedures, conducts data collection and analysis, reports status and results, and contributes to Government test and evaluation documentation. It also coordinates with other test organizations and Systems Engineering, supports data and configuration management, and provides technical direction and quality assurance for assigned test and evaluation tasks.
Requirements
- Eight years of experience as a Test Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university; four additional years of experience may substitute for a bachelor's degree.
- Current and active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Responsibilities
- Analyze system requirements, concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures; prepare for and conduct data collection and analysis; and report status and results.
- Support development of Government test and evaluation documentation, including T&E strategies, Test and Evaluation Master Plans, event test plans, test readiness assessments, and T&E reports.
- Work with other test organizations to support T&E program integration.
- Review planned acquisition approaches to align T&E schedules with decision-maker needs.
- Plan program- and event-level testing to collect data for analysis and synchronize T&E events with supported decision points.
- Establish and employ data and configuration management capabilities.
- Support Data Authentication group functions and comply with program discrepancy-reporting criteria and processes.
- Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning.
- Coordinate with program Systems Engineering and review T&E-related systems engineering information, including functional analysis, system descriptions, parameter selection and dependencies, modeling and simulation, and initial performance assessments.
- Plan risk-tailored performance estimation and analysis of system and operational effectiveness and suitability metrics and conditions at program and event levels.
- Design surveys for subject matter expert input and user estimates of performance.
- Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team and/or Integrated Test Team to coordinate evaluation plans and T&E activities.
- Produce evaluation plans, analysis plans, data requirements, risk assessments, evaluation reports, and status reports; provide input to Government T&E products.
- Define and provide technical direction and guidance for Level 1 tasks to assigned Level 0 and Level 1 Test Engineers.
- Recommend draft plans and reports from Level 1 tasks for approval by the task leader.
- Manage T&E resources and tasks and ensure quality assurance of test processes and products.
- Coordinate and integrate evaluation and testing tasks and products.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
