Sr. Test Engineer; TS​/SCI Scope Poly

Position: Sr. Test Engineer

Location: Columbia Gateway, MD

Clearance: Active TS/SCI with FSP Polygraph

DeNOVO Solutions is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to analyze system requirements, concepts of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures. The TE will also prepare for and conduct the data collection, analysis, and report status and results. This role 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.

The test engineer works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. The test engineer also provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance areas.

• Conduct research into and apply knowledge of government test and evaluation concepts related to 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&B schedule alignment with decision‑maker needs for T&E support.
• Analyze performance risk areas to focus T&B 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.
• Plan program and event‑level testing for the collection of data required for analysis and to support T&E events with supported decision points.
• Establish and employ data and 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 and conditions. Levels of T&E include inspection, demonstration paper analysis, survey simulation, and physical test.
• Design surveys for the 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 the 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, and facilities.
• Ensure test readiness, including training of test event participants regarding the conduct of the event, equipment readiness, and security, legal, and privacy compliance arrangements.
• Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team for the coordination of the data collection plan.
• 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.
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