Senior Test Engineer

at  Belay Technologies

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal’s (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!
Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior Test Engineer (TE) to join our intel team. The TE analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results. The TE supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. The TE works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. The TE provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance area as assigned in the SOW.

CANDIDATES SHOULD HAVE THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• TS/SCI with full scope polygraph is required.
• Eight (8) 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.
• Required Experience Description:
• Three (3) years’ experience testing products written in Java or GoLang
• Five (5) years’ experience testing in Linux, Unix, Windows, or Cisco OS operating system
• Desired Qualifications:
• Three (3) years’ experience testing a messaging service (such as Java Messaging
• Service, TIBCO, ActiveMQ, Artemis, Kafka)
• One (1) year experience using a requirements tracking tool (such as Redmine,
• Jira)
• Two (2) years’ experience using automated testing tools
• CWIP: IAT Level I Certification, IA Baseline Certification
• Shall possess the following capabilities:
• 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
• Provide overall leadership of the T&E task and serve as primary liaison to the government for supporting contract coordination and task execution
• Communicate issues and solutions to the broader government and contract management structure as requested by Leadership
• Ensure the appropriate level of independence of the team from the solution provider to support government management of objectivity risk
• Manage T&E resources and tasks; ensure quality assurance of test processes and products
• Coordinate and integrate Evaluation and Testing tasks and products
• Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team as needed to ensure proper coordination of T&E activities
• 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 fall-back positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones

ALL CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

• Experienced with IAT Level I (A+, CCNA-Security, CND, Network+, SSCP)

ALL CANDIDATES ARE DESIRED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:

• Familiarity with SIGINT security rules
• CWIP Requirements: IAM Level I Certificate, IA Baseline Certificate for the Primary Computing environment/Operating System/Security tool: Security+ CE; CAP; CND; Cloud+; GSLC
  ETR Test Team: ETR applications require full stack (front-end and back-end) testing. Two of the main applications (JDTS and JUMPGATE) have UIs that provide an ability for a user to configure the software as well as monitor and see metrics for data flows configured to go through each instance. Front-end testing is required to verify UI functionality and back-end testing to fully test software capabilities related to data flow functionality, streams, logging, and integration testing. The ETR test team also supports DARKGATEWAY, this application is a web-based tool that has centralized monitoring and metrics about data flows, as well as health and status monitoring. The majority of DARKGATEWAY testing is front-end focused.

Please refer the Job description for details