Test Engineer - levels - Clearance and Polygraph

T&E WIPTs and integrated test teams to align T&E activities

Due to federal contract requirements, United States citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph are required for the position.

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have TS/SCI clearance w/ active polygraph
• This position is open to multiple levels of years of experience; two (02) years within the last five (05) years must be directly related to the job you are applying for.
• Eight (08) years of experience as a Test Engineer (TE) on programs of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or a related field from an accredited institution or (Alternate Qualification) Four (4) additional years of TE experience substituted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience conducting research into and applying knowledge of government test and evaluation concepts to support engineering acquisition and operations activities.
• Experience planning and executing performance analysis.
• Experience analyzing performance risk areas to inform T&E planning.
• Experience specifying, validating, and adapting modeling and simulation tools for T&E use.
• Experience applying statistical analysis of performance variation to assess confidence in estimates.
• Experience selecting, developing, and using analysis tools to support evaluation.
• Experience executing evaluation plans using data collected by the testing team.
• Experience planning and executing performance data collection.
• Experience planning program and event-level testing to collect analysis data and synchronize with decision points.
• Experience establishing and using data and configuration management capabilities.
• Experience coordinating with systems engineering (SE) teams and reviewing T&E-related SE data to inform evaluation efforts.
• Experience assessing operational environments and scenarios to support evaluation planning and user participation.
• Experience planning risk-tailored estimation and analysis of effectiveness and suitability metrics across all levels of T&E (inspection, demonstration, paper analysis, simulation, physical test).
• Experience designing surveys to evaluate Subject Matter Expert (SME) input and user performance estimates.
• Experience producing evaluation plans, analysis plans, data requirements, risk assessments, and evaluation reports, and providing input to government T&E documentation.
• Experience designing data sampling schemes to optimize resource use and control test uncertainty.
• Experience coordinating data collection plans with T&E WIPTs and integrated test teams.
• Experience executing testing and data collection in accordance with approved plans.
• Experience producing test plans, test procedures, test reports/briefings, and data management plans.
• Experience defining and providing technical guidance to junior test engineers (Level 0 and Level
  1).
• Experience reviewing and recommending draft plans and reports from junior test engineers for leadership approval.
• Experience working directly with government sponsors to coordinate task implementation.
• Experience maintaining knowledge of current and emerging standards related to system development.
• Experience leading T&E tasks and serving as the primary liaison to the government for contract coordination.
• Experience communicating issues and solutions across government and contract leadership.
• Experience ensuring independence of the T&E team from the solution provider to mitigate objectivity risk.
• Experience managing T&E resources, overseeing test tasks, and ensuring quality assurance in test execution.
• Experience coordinating and integrating evaluation and testing tasks and deliverables.
• Experience participating in T&E WIPTs and integrated test teams to align T&E activities.
• Experience driving innovation and responsiveness to changing program needs, developing mitigation strategies, and continuously re-evaluating risks.

• Experience working with/developing system requirements documentation and working directly with stakeholders.

$130,000 - $210,000 a year

The pay range for this job, with multi-levels, is a general…