Test Engineer

Description

Job Description:

Are you seeking a new and challenging position supporting a complex Program for the Warfighter? Well, look no further! This is an exciting time to contribute to a mission-critical program with lasting impactful results. The Test Engineer will 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 the data collection and analysis, and report status and results. Supports 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. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance area as assigned in the SOW.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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 and related engineering, acquisition, and operations activities as needed to support the T&E 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, & use analysis tools

• Execute the evaluation plan on data collected by the Testing Tasks

• Plan and Execute Performance Data Collection

• Plan program and event level testing for collection of data required for analysis and to synch T&E events with supported decision points

• Establish and employ Data & 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 frame and prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning

• Coordinate with program Systems Engineering (SE) and review T&E-related SE information to leverage functional analysis, system descriptions, parameter selection and dependencies, Modeling and Simulation, and initial performance risk assessments to inform evaluation planning

• Assess operational environments and priorities for evaluation attention and scenario selection, and to coordinate user participation in T&E

• Plan program and event level risk-tailored performance estimation and analysis of system and operational Effectiveness and Suitability metrics & conditions; levels of T&E include inspection, demonstration, paper analysis, survey, simulation, and physical test

• Design surveys for evaluation of Subject Matter Expert (SME) input and user assessments 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 (metric framework, scenarios/threads, timelines, requirements/T&E crosswalk), Analysis Plans, Data Requirements, Risk Assessments, Evaluation Reports, Status reports; provide input to Government T&E products (e.g., Technology Readiness Assessments, Test & Evaluation Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, T&E Plans & Procedures and Test Readiness Reports)

• Design data sampling schemes to optimize the information/resource balance and to control testing uncertainties

• Select, coordinate, and calibrate Instrumentation, collection and data management tools, targets, & facilities

• Ensure test readiness including training of test event participants re conduct of the event, equipment readiness, and security, legal, and privacy compliance arrangements

• Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of data collection plans 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 products

• Coordinate and integrate Evaluation and Testing tasks and products

• Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team as needed to ensure proper coordination of T&E activities

• Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving T&E status to help manage program risk: develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestone

Basic Qualifications

Eight (8) years’ experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Test Automation

• Continuous Integration

• Automated Test Tools

• CAMEO

• Strong Quality Assurance (QA) background.

• Strong Quality Control (QC) background

• Design, develop and implement scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development, using a strong understanding of model-based design patterns.

• Strong experience in developing BDD and Gherkin test scripts.

• Proficiency in automation testing frameworks building integration, acceptance, and performance test automation – Robot Framework, Selenium, Cucumber (Gherkin), Jmeter;

• Strong experience in writing automated test code, using the same standards as a Software Engineer, that allows for repeatable, reliable testing solutions to test the wide functionality of products and software, maintaining automation codebase in a version control system (GIT);

• Knowledge of any APM (application performance monitoring) tool, knowledge of any NoSQL database, knowledge of any Open-source logging and monitoring tool, knowledge of any CI/CD tool, knowledge of Unix commands and Linux OS, Cloud Technologies.

• Proficient in analyzing the test results like application threading issues, memory leaks, CPU race conditions, network throughput bottlenecks, database contention.

• Experience with Bug Tracking Tools – Jira.

• Experience with Collaboration Tools – Confluence and SharePoint.

• Experience with all types of development methodologies – Waterfall, Agile, and Iterative.

• Experience reviewing and analyzing complex programming specifications to test each application’s performance properly and effectively.

• Experience designing and developing complete automated performance testing of the application.

• Experience in Performance Test Script maintenance, improvements, execution/Troubleshooting.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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