Test Systems Engineer (Senior-Level):

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 may 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: 

• 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 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.

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. 

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• 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. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly