Test Engineer 3

RealmOne • MD

119d

About The Position

RealmOne was built on the principle that people matter first and foremost. We believe in providing a strong work/life balance by investing in our employees and encouraging professional and personal growth. We do this by offering exceptional benefits, flexible schedules, and the tools necessary to achieve success through paid training, mentoring, and the opportunity to work alongside top-notch industry professionals. We are searching for talented individuals who provide intelligence, engineering, and mission management expertise for the Government. This program will maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of our country’s most important missions both at home and abroad. If you are ready to support a high-performing team that truly makes a difference, then come join us!

Requirements

• Eight (8) years' experience as a Test Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope type and complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of additional Test Engineer experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Position requires active Security Clearance with appropriate Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes system requirements and 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 the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports.
• Work with other test organizations to support T&E program integration.
• Provide specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance area as assigned in the SOW.
• Assist with any or all of the Level 1 tasks as constrained by technical training and previous testing experience.
• Conduct research into and apply knowledge of Government test and evaluation concepts related to engineering acquisition and operations activities.
• Plan and execute performance analysis.
• Review planned acquisition approaches to support T&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support.
• Analyze performance risk areas to focus T&E planning.
• Specify, validate, and adapt Modeling and Simulation for T&E use.
• Apply Statistical Analysis of variations in performance behavior to characterize confidence in performance estimates.
• Select, develop, and use analysis tools.
• Execute the evaluation plan of data collected by the Testing Task.
• Plan and execute performance data collection.
• Establish and employ Data & Configuration Management capabilities.
• Support Data Authentication group functions; comply with program Discrepancy Reporting criteria and processes.
• Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to frame and prioritize T&E objectives.
• Coordinate with program Systems Engineering (SE) and review T&E-related SE information.
• Assess operational environments and priorities for evaluation attention and scenario selection.
• Plan program and event level risk-tailored performance estimation and analysis of system and operational Effectiveness and Suitability metrics.
• Design surveys for evaluation of Subject Matter Expert (SE) input and user estimates of performance.
• Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of evaluation plans.
• Produce Evaluation Plans, Analysis Plans, Data Requirements, Risk Assessments, Evaluation Reports, and Status reports.
• Design data sampling schemes to optimize the information/resource balance.
• Select, coordinate, and calibrate Instrumentation, collection and data management tools, targets, and facilities.
• Ensure test readiness including training of test event participants, equipment readiness, and compliance arrangements.
• Execute Testing and Data Collection per plan.
• Produce associated Test Plans, Procedures, and Reports/Briefings, Data Management Plan.
• Define and provide technical direction and guidance for the Level 1 tasks to the Level 0 and Level 1 TEs assigned to the task.
• Recommend draft plans and reports from the Level 1 tasks for approval by the task leader.
• Work directly with the Government sponsor to coordinate task implementation.
• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest.
• Provide overall leadership of the T&E task and serve as primary liaison to the government for supporting contract coordination and task execution.
• Communicate issues and solutions to the broader government and contract management structure as requested by Leadership.
• Ensure the appropriate level of independence of the team from the solution provider to support government management of objectivity risk.
• Manage T&E resources and tasks; ensure quality assurance of test processes and product.
• Coordinate and integrate Evaluation and Testing tasks and products.
• Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving T&E status to help manage program risk.

Benefits

• Exceptional benefits
• Flexible schedules
• Paid training
• Mentoring
• Opportunity to work alongside top-notch industry professionals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees