Senior Systems Test Orchestrator; SETA

Analyzes users’ requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies. Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation.

Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

The SETA coordinator will serve as the central, active facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events by driving communication, streamlining information reception, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors. They will be assigned one or more high-visibility, staggered test events to concurrently coordinate, spanning the full test life cycle of that test event, and will provide timely status updates to Government Leads (Agile Release Train (ART) Leads, Project Directors, CORs, etc.).

• Facilitate regular meetings and communication mechanisms to discuss progress, address issues, and mitigate risks
• Liaise between vendor, integrator, development, and testing teams to ensure effective communication
• Actively participate in communications from multiple communication channels (chatrooms, emails, verbal, etc.) on unclassified and classified networks
• Identify and provide recommendations to remove gaps in information or communication
• Escalate issues to appropriate teams or, if necessary, Government Leads
• Centralize data presentation of test events across teams and vendors
• Create SOPs and Templates for government use

• Maintain a broad view of all testing activities for a given set of equipment across different test phases
• Actively track and communicate information across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Monitor test case execution and track progress against the test plan
• Ensure that defects and issues are properly logged, prioritized, tracked, and resolved
• Provide periodic messaging on status updates for each test event

• Coordinate with other teams in the setup of the system/environment under test, including hardware, software, and network configurations
• Ensure that the environment under each test event meets the criteria for each event

• Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing
• Facilitate the resolution of issues by working with teams, vendors, and stakeholders

• Summarize regular test status reports for stakeholders
• Facilitate the culmination of multiple test reports summarizing the environment, detailed results, and recommendations

• Identify, track, and help mitigate potential risks that could impact the testing schedule, scope, or quality
• Provide recommendations on decisions and priorities of test activities

• Provide recommendations to help define the testing scope, objectives, and criteria for success
• Facilitate review of detailed test plans, including timelines and milestones
• Coordinate resources and schedules between the vendor, integrator, and testing teams

• Coordinate with Government teams to develop test cases that cover all required functionality and edge cases
• Review test cases to ensure they are well-defined, relevant, and feasible

• Coordinate test closure activities, including final testing, documentation updates, and messaging
• Facilitate the identification of and instrumentation of lessons learned to continually improve in future testing efforts