Description

SAIC has a funded need for a Senior Software Test Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to support a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer for a complex space and ground effort within the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, VA.

The customer is developing a next generation of space and ground systems architectures.

Job Duties will include:

• Support oversight of the planning and execution of requirements verification testing to ensure our ground processing system is meeting the required capabilities and identify any deficiencies in the system.
• Provide test execution support, advice, and leadership of staff in close coordination with the Government test director and other program leadership
• Draft and coordinate test requirements for new contracts and/or contract modifications and support evaluation of proposed solutions
• Evaluate and monitor the use of plans for system testing, test procedures, and anticipated outcomes for test events, including security requirements and constraints
• Serve as a subject matter expert to enable the successful integration of the system elements and integrated system testing
• Create, edit, and lead execution of test documentation throughout all phases of the requirements verification testing program, including data analyses
• Observe the contractor-led software tests, coordinate data inputs/outputs, and capture of mission data and required metadata
• Uncover and report discrepancies, assess impacts, and make recommendations on workarounds and fixes to ensure the system meets requirements
• Work with staff to compile test evidence into overall test summaries to sell off all requirements
• Communicate strategies, plans, summaries, successes, concerns, issues, and lessons learned with leadership

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors and 5 years of experience OR Masters and 3 years or more experience
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Polygraph
• Experience leading testing and requirements sell-off processes, including negotiating and ensuring compliance with oversight organizations (e.g., independent test or enterprise test organizations)
• Sound technical skills in testing principles and terminology
• Specific knowledge of software testing and analysis
• Experience communicating testing strategies, plans, status, and results through presentations and in writing
• Coordinating with other technical personnel and program users to ensure test results are commonly understood and effectively communicated to technical and non-technical personnel
• Knowledge of space operations and ground processing systems

Desired Experience

• Experience with Intelligence Community or Department of Defense organizations, especially with space-based systems
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar framework experience

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