ENGINEER​/SCIENTIST

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Duties

• You will serve as a Test Lead Engineer/Scientist in a large-scale agile software development team in the Strategic and Computing Systems Department of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.
• You will develop test strategies, plans, and test case development, execution, analysis, and reporting.
• You will advocate for test-driven development (TDD).
• You will contribute to the test suite through automated testing performed at various levels (exploratory, system, integration, unit, end-to-end, contract, security and performance).
• You will record and report test key performance indicators (test coverage, defect density, test execution rate, defect resolution time, defect leakage, test automation rate, test case effectiveness, and test team utilization).
• You will track test traceability and evaluate and improve test processes.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Secret security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition
  
  Functional Area
  
  and category assigned to the position is required within established category time frames.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications
This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by a General Engineer (0801-series), a Mechanical Engineer, an Electrical Engineer (0850-series), a Computer Engineer (0854-series), an Electronics Engineer (0855-series), a General Physical Scientist (1301-series), an Operations Research Analyst (1515-series), a Mathematician (1520-series), or a Computer Scientist (1550-series) depending on the qualifications of the candidate. Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0801, 0830, 0850, 0854, 0855, 1301, 1515, 1520 and 1550) may apply;

however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications.

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-3 pay band (GS-9 through GS-11 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:
As a professional engineer or scientist conducting testing activities for software applications. Examples of qualifying experience may include (1) developing test strategies outlining the overall approach to testing software applications; (2) preparing detailed test plans that outline test objectives, schedule, deliverables, test environment setup, and resource allocation; (3) performing analysis of alternatives and selecting test automation tools; (4) creating automated test scripts and maintaining the test automation framework;

(5) experience with unit testing in JUnit/Jest, code coverage tools such as Ja Co Co , UI testing tools such as Graphene/Selenium, load testing tools such as JMeter, dynamic security testing tools such as Burp Suite and JavaScript; (6) experience with traceability tools such as Jira Requirements & Management and Jira X-Ray.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).-PROF

Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR):
All Professional Engineering Positions, 08XX
General Physical Science Series, 1301
Operations Research Series, 1515
Mathematics Series, 1520
Computer Science Series, 1550

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional,…