Overall Assignment Description:

Senior-level Test Systems Engineers assist in leading Application, System and Integration Testing teams performing test and evaluation across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include:

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing test and evaluation across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Performs testing of applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) in DevOps pipelines utilizing quality assurance measures established by the government and industry best practices.

• Performs independent integration testing on system software and hardware to determine the system’s compliance with specified requirements.

• Plans and executes manual tests, and automated test scripts using scripting and programming languages. 

• Supports technical investigations for defects discovered during test activities.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• Senior-level systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.

• Experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated testing strategies.

• 12 years of experience working in a Requirements Engineering discipline or a closely related field that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the tasks associated with this work.

• 12 years of systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience tracing program/project requirements to the source requirement such as the Joint Architecture Reference Models (JARM), and JARM Technical Service Types (TSTs) for duplication analysis and gap analysis.

• Ability to coordinate with users and stakeholders to develop Sensor program requirements for new and changing mission needs.

• Experience with requirements development, RFC documentation and tracking

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.

• Experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated testing strategies.

• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Experience with JMeterand, Jenkins, Docker, Postman, Swagger, Nexus, Apigee or GitHub/GitLab (or equivalent software packages), Java, Bash, Curl, XML, JSON, SQL, Python, Javascript, and AWS and C2S.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.