Test Coordinator 3 - (Test Coordination)

Akina • Fort Meade, MD

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Test Coordinator 3 role focuses on the coordination and facilitation of contractual and programmatic test events. This position serves as a central facilitator, driving communication, streamlining information reception, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors. The coordinator will manage one or more high-visibility test events, spanning the full test life cycle, and provide timely status updates to Government Leads. Responsibilities include facilitating meetings, liaising between teams, actively participating in communications across various networks, identifying and resolving communication gaps, escalating issues, centralizing data presentation, creating SOPs and templates, maintaining a broad view of testing activities, monitoring test case execution, ensuring defect tracking and resolution, providing status updates, coordinating system/environment setup, triaging issues, facilitating issue resolution, summarizing test reports, culminating test reports, identifying and mitigating risks, providing recommendations on test scope and priorities, facilitating review of test plans, coordinating resources and schedules, and facilitating lessons learned.

Requirements

• Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required
• Strong experience in coordinating scheduled-driven, project-level activities across multiple participants (e.g. roles such as Project Director, Program Manager, Test Lead)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to accurately synthesize and summarize complex technical information for a diverse audience
• Experience in working across multiple stakeholders such as government teams, industry vendors, and internal stakeholders; comfortable with escalating to Government Leads (e.g. ART Leads and CORs)
• Proficiency with supporting requirements validation activities
• Proficiency with tracking schedules and anticipating logistical challenges
• Proficiency with tool usage of ticketing systems, collaboration platforms, and dashboard tools
• Analytical mindset with the ability to identify gaps, assess risks, and recommend prioritization of test activities
• A High School Diploma or GED plus twelve (12) years of general system engineering experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus seven (7) years of systems engineering experience.
• A Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus five (5) years of systems engineering experience.
• A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus three (3) years of systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Be assigned one or more high-visibility, staggered test events to concurrently coordinate, spanning the full test life cycle of that test event, and provide timely status updates to Government Leads (Agile Release Train (ART) Leads, Project Directors, CORs, etc.).
• Facilitate regular meetings and communication mechanisms to discuss progress, address issues, and mitigate risks.
• Liaise between vendor, integrator, development and testing teams to ensure effective communication.
• Actively participate in communications from multiple communication channels (chatrooms, emails, verbal, etc.) on unclassified and classified networks.
• Identify and provide recommendations to remove gaps in information or communication.
• Escalate issues to appropriate teams or, if necessary, Government Leads.
• Centralize data presentation of test events across teams and vendors.
• Create SOPs and Templates for government use.
• Maintain a broad view of all testing activities for a given set of equipment across different test phases.
• Actively track and communicate information across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor test case execution and track progress against the test plan.
• Ensure that defects and issues are properly logged, prioritized, tracked, and resolved.
• Provide periodic messaging on status updates for each test event.
• Coordinate with other teams in the setup of the system/environment under test, including hardware, software, and network configurations.
• Ensure that the environment under each test event meets the criteria per each event.
• Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing.
• Facilitate the resolution of issues by working with teams, vendors and stakeholders.
• Summarize regular test status reports for stakeholders.
• Facilitate culmination of multiple test reports summarizing the environment, detailed results, and recommendations.
• Identify, track and help mitigate potential risks that could impact the testing schedule, scope, or quality.
• Provide recommendations on decisions and priorities of test activities.
• Provide recommendations to help define the testing scope, objectives, and criteria for success.
• Facilitate review of detailed test plans, including timelines and milestones.
• Coordinate resources and schedules between the vendor, integrator, and testing teams.
• Coordinate with Government teams to develop test cases that cover all required functionality and edge cases.
• Review test cases to ensure they are well-defined, relevant, and feasible.
• Coordinate test closure activities, including final testing, documentation updates, and messaging.
• Facilitate identification of and instrumentation of lessons learned to continually improve in future testing efforts.

Benefits

• 24 days PTO accrued annually
• 11 federal holidays
• 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary.
• Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents.
• Educational assistance towards college classes
• Will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED