Test Coordination Systems Engineer

Peraton • Fort Meade, MD

11d • $135,000 - $216,000

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Test Coordination Systems Engineer to support a mission-critical High Performance Computing (HPC) program of national importance. This cutting-edge program encompasses everything from HPC test planning and execution, to architecture design, prototyping, and vendor collaboration. Technical areas span commercial cloud technologies, HPC, and enterprise architecture directly supporting the success of U.S. national security objectives.
This is an opportunity to be part of a high-profile, tactically important program, where your contributions are directly recognized for their impact.
This is a government-contracted Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) role in which the selected systems engineer will serve as the central, active facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events by driving communication, streamlining information reception, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors. They will be assigned one or more high-visibility, staggered test events to concurrently coordinate, spanning the full test life-cycle of the test event, and will provide timely status updates to Government Leads (Agile Release Train (ART) Leads, Project Directors, CORs, etc.). This role will support the following functions:
Communications and Collaboration:
Facilitate regular meetings and communications mechanisms to discuss progress, address issues, and mitigate risks.
Liaise between the vendor, integrator, development and testing teams to ensure effective communications.
Identify information gaps and provide recommendations to address them.
Test Event Coordination:
Track testing activities across different project phases.
Monitor test case execution and track progress against the test plan,
Ensure defects are documented, prioritized, tracked and resolved.
Provide stakeholders with updates on testing activities.
Capture, document, and promulgate testing lessons learned.
Issue Management:
Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing.
Facilitate issue resolution by collaborating with teams, vendors and stakeholders.
Planning and Scheduling:
Provide recommendations on test scope definitions, objectives, and success criteria.
Review test plans and test cases to ensure they are well-defined, relevant, and feasible.
As a Test Coordination Systems Engineer, you will:
Monitor systems test activities associated with HPC system capability activities.
Prepare and review compliance matrix associated with test activities.
Coordinate the integrated test schedule across stakeholders.
Represent the HPC program equities at HPC capability stakeholder test meetings.
Monitor HPC contracts testing requirements to ensure compliance by vendors and that appropriate annotations are recorded in program documentation as test events are successfully concluded. #AJCM

Requirements

• A High School Diploma or GED plus fourteen (14) years of general systems engineering experience, OR
• A Bachelor’s degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus ten (10) years of systems engineering experience, OR
• A Master’s degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eight (8) years of systems engineering experience.
• Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Polygraph must have been completed in the last 5 years.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Nice To Haves

• While experience as a tester is not required, a basic understanding of the purpose and function of various types of testing (Unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, and operational acceptance tests) is essential.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate regular meetings and communications mechanisms to discuss progress, address issues, and mitigate risks.
• Liaise between the vendor, integrator, development and testing teams to ensure effective communications.
• Identify information gaps and provide recommendations to address them.
• Track testing activities across different project phases.
• Monitor test case execution and track progress against the test plan
• Ensure defects are documented, prioritized, tracked and resolved.
• Provide stakeholders with updates on testing activities.
• Capture, document, and promulgate testing lessons learned.
• Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing.
• Facilitate issue resolution by collaborating with teams, vendors and stakeholders.
• Provide recommendations on test scope definitions, objectives, and success criteria.
• Review test plans and test cases to ensure they are well-defined, relevant, and feasible.
• Monitor systems test activities associated with HPC system capability activities.
• Prepare and review compliance matrix associated with test activities.
• Coordinate the integrated test schedule across stakeholders.
• Represent the HPC program equities at HPC capability stakeholder test meetings.
• Monitor HPC contracts testing requirements to ensure compliance by vendors and that appropriate annotations are recorded in program documentation as test events are successfully concluded.

Benefits

• Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees