DMO Tester

At PLEXSYS, our teams design, build and deliver Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) innovation and training solutions to customers around the world. With over 200 employees in seventeen states and four foreign countries, we contribute our success to enabling better training…everyday…across the globe.

As an employee of PLEXSYS, you’ll find a culture that empowers you to achieve your professional objectives, give your personal best, and work with other highly passionate individuals. Our core values of integrity, excellence, teamwork and agility drive our daily decisions, identify our focus areas, and inspire our organizational culture.

The Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2

ISR) Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) Test Support Engineer will provide support to the Joint Theater Air-to-Ground Simulation Systems (JTAGSS), Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), Airborne Surveillance Command and Control (ASC2), and/or Theater Air Control System (TACS) training and ground systems and networks by performing DMO Test Support Engineer services and advising the DMO Standards Support Engineer on testing and test results on PLEXSYS software products and their respective assigned systems.

He/She will manage all aspects of DMO standards compliance testing of PLEXSYS, their assigned systems, and ASCOT software products. This position includes occasional travel to attend CAF DMO Standards Development Working Groups, Standards Integration Working Groups and Test Planning/Procedures Working Group meetings as required. Coordination with other CAF DMO Federate partners and System Program Office Engineer is required to fulfill all documentation requirements to verify PLEXSYS, operation system software, and ASCOT products comply with the current CAF DMO standards.

This will require a close working relationship with internal and external software engineering departments to effectively communicate implementation requirements and subsequent testing to validate compliance with published CAF DMO standards requirements. This position will support After Action Review (VADAAR) and sustainment requirements to include troubleshooting, repair, demonstration, upgrades, and training.

• Develop, maintain, and execute Federate System Test Plans (FSTP) and Federate System Test Reports (FSTR) in support of annual DMO Mission Package implementations
• Participate in meetings and teleconferences as a member of the Test Procedures Working Group (TPWG) and System Problem Report Working Group (SPRWG) for the purpose of scheduling test events and resolving interoperability issues
• Develop, maintain, and execute C2
  
  ISR system specific test scripts to support integration requirements of current and future DMO standards
• Analyze and troubleshoot issues impacting local software related to Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol data units
• Assist the DMO Standards Support Engineer on Government or Contractor led tiger teams to review DMO standards changes and impacts to C2
  
  ISR system software
• Work with the DMO Standards Support Engineer and the software engineering staff to implement DMO standards requirements into current C2
  
  ISR system software
• Coordinate with Government engineering representatives on planned and current CAF DMO standards implementation and impacts on their C2
  
  ISR system
• Coordinate with Lead Hardware Engineer to become VADAAR subject matter expert
• Other tasking and duties as assigned

• BS or BA degree in a technical area, or technical training in a high technology field such as Computer Science, or five years’ experience operating PLEXSYS software products (ASCOT 5, ASCOT 7, sonomarc, VADAAR, etc.)
• Working understanding of typical software and testing lifecycle/objectives along with industry testing best practices
• Experience with Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software testing and/or development roles
• A demonstrated capability to work with aggressive timelines involving government agencies or other contractors
• Working knowledge of DoD virtual and constructive simulation training…