Test and Evaluation Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•San Diego, CA

4d•$86,900 - $198,000

About The Position

As a Test and Evaluation (T&E) Subject Matter Expert (SME) on our team, you’ll work with a team of experts to create comprehensive test plans and documentation to support acquisition strategies for Navy and Joint communications systems. You’ll support the development and maintenance of Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMP) in accordance with DoW and Navy T&E guidance, policies, and templates. You'll use your experience to collaborate with the Navy’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) stakeholders, developers, engineers, and cyber experts to identify and prioritize testing requirements, coordinate test resources to support test events, including equipment, personnel, and facilities, and ensure successful test execution. You’ll work with test organizations to support program integration plans, and plan and conduct activities with members from the user and DoW community. Additionally, you’ll identify and maintain relevant metrics for evaluating the success of T&E efforts and identify or assess recommended improvements or tools. You’ll analyze system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop test plans and procedures, conduct test execution, data collection, and analysis, and report the results. This is an opportunity to share your skills with a team as they design and deliver modernized systems and software.

Requirements

5+ years of experience supporting test events or exercises with appropriate configurations of hardware components
5+ years of experience with government acquisitions
5+ years of experience leading teams and managing the work of others
Experience assessing operational and system performance requirements to prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning
Knowledge of how T&E feeds into milestone and major acquisitions decisions of Programs of Record (PoR)
Ability to work and communicate effectively with developers, clients, stakeholders, and leadership
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously, and manage discrepancy reports identified during testing
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in a STEM, Software, or Cyber field

Nice To Haves

Experience with test automation
Experience working with Palantir Artificial Intelligence Ontology
Ability to write test automation scripts
Master’s degree in a STEM, Software, or Cyber field
Defense Acquisition University (DAU) T&E Level II or Certified Test and Evaluation Professional (CTEP) Certification

Responsibilities

Create comprehensive test plans and documentation to support acquisition strategies for Navy and Joint communications systems.
Support the development and maintenance of Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMP) in accordance with DoW and Navy T&E guidance, policies, and templates.
Collaborate with the Navy’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) stakeholders, developers, engineers, and cyber experts to identify and prioritize testing requirements.
Coordinate test resources to support test events, including equipment, personnel, and facilities.
Ensure successful test execution.
Work with test organizations to support program integration plans.
Plan and conduct activities with members from the user and DoW community.
Identify and maintain relevant metrics for evaluating the success of T&E efforts.
Identify or assess recommended improvements or tools.
Analyze system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop test plans and procedures.
Conduct test execution, data collection, and analysis.
Report the results.