Test Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

This role is eligible for a $30,000 Sign-On Bonus About the job: CollabraSpace PRIME contract is seeking a Test Engineer 2 to perform automated testing and use DevOps practices and tools as well as standard test processes and procedures, standing up test and devops best practices at the organizational level. With a strong mix of technical, communication, organization, and management skills, the candidate will be responsible for engineering the test strategy used across teams within an organization. The candidate will work directly with each team to
assess the current test processes and align the overall test strategy to include successful patterns from each team. The test strategy engineered will enable automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment across the organization. The candidate will be instrumental in standing up a Testing and DevOps best practices team that operates at the organization level, which would enable a standard process across all products and versatility amongst testers within the organization. Preference will be given to candidates with strong leadership and strategic design experience and those experienced with: automation testing and techniques, DevOps practices and tools, configuring CI/CD environments, programming and developing automation scripts, standard test processes and creating test plans and procedures. Requirements:
- Five (5) years' experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
- Experience in automation testing and techniques
- Experience in automated testing of web services
- Experience with version/source code management (Git, SVN)
- Experience training and leading other test engineers
- Assist with any or all of the Level 1 tasks as constrained by technical training and previous testing experience
- Conduct research into and apply knowledge of Government test and evaluation concepts and related 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&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support
- Analyze performance risk areas to focus T&E 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, & use analysis tools
- Execute the evaluation plan on data collected by the Testing Tasks
- Plan and Execute Performance Data Collection
- Plan program and event level testing for collection of data required for analysis and to synch T&E events with supported decision points
- Establish and employ Data & 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 & conditions; levels of T&E include inspection, demonstration, paper analysis, survey, simulation, and physical test
- Design surveys for evaluation of Subject Matter Expert (SME) input and user assessments of performance
- Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of evaluation plans
- Produce Evaluation Plans (metric framework, scenarios/threads, timelines, requirements/T&E cross-walk), 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, & facilities
- Ensure test readiness including training of test event participants re conduct of the event; equipment readiness, and security, legal, and privacy compliance arrangements
- Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of data collection plans
- 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
- Recommend draft plans and reports from the Level 1 tasks for approval by the task leader
- 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
- Clearance: Applicants must be U.S. Citizens possessing an active TS/SCI security clearance with a Polygraph. Desired Skills:
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD environment
- Experience in programming in Ruby, Python, or scripting languages
- Proficiency in programming using Java
- NiFi
- Tomcat

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