Test Engineer; Prime

Position Title: Test Engineer (PRIME Contract)

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Reports To: Technical Task Lead

Job Type: Full-time

Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI with polygraph, U.S. citizen

Summary: Seeking a Test Engineer who enjoys digging into tasks and has a desire to push secure access solutions forward to support the customer. This individual should enjoy engaging with teammates and have strong communication skills to effectively communicate at all levels, both those that work with them and those they serve. To be successful you bring attention to detail, possess the agency to make decisions in support of problem solving and completing tasks in a timely manner, value the support from company leadership to deliver the highest quality product while supporting a healthy work/life balance, and want to grow and contribute to improve the mission.

• Experience in automating all levels of tests, including traditional manual testing, across a wide variety of platforms.
• Proficient with popular open source testing platforms and tools to perform integration, system and load/performance testing.
• Uncanny ability to think about how to test the untestable followed up with planning and executing creative testing ideas.
• Ability to plan, execute and present test Performance Data.
• Knowledge of security testing as part of a Dev Sec Ops  development process and the ability to plan program and event level testing for collection of data required for analysis and to sync T&E events with supported decision points.
• 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.
• Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of evaluation plans.
• Structure tests for build/deploy in stages for Dev, Test/Integration, and Production environments.
• 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).
• Work directly with the Government sponsor to coordinate task implementation.
• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest.
• Provide overall leadership of the T&E task and serve as primary liaison to the government for supporting contract coordination and task execution.
• Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving T&E status to help manage program risk: develop alternative courses of action, work-arounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline from accredited college or university is required.

Experience:

• Eight (8) years experience as a Test Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
  • 4 years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of constructing and implementing test plans (including Strategies, Suites, Cases, Cycles, & Archiving Test Artifacts)
• Familiarity with Agile tools like Jira & Test Ray
• Test Frameworks with Cypress (strong background), Selenium and/or Puppeteer
• Familiarity with Java J2EE, Gradle, and Node.js
• CI/CD knowledge strongly encouraged. Configuring gitlab-ci.yml and gitlab runners
• Working knowledge of running Docker containers
• Strong knowledge of types of tests needed for the program:
  Unit, Integration, End-to-end, Regression, Performance, Accessibility, etc. Familiarity with dashboard technologies such as Splunk, Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to collaborate with others to determine root…