Systems Integration & Testing Engineer VV&T
Company: Solvarus
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: January 17, 2023
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Job Description:
Solvarus Consulting is dedicated to solving the toughest
challenges facing the Intelligence Community and Department of
Defense. Join our team of experienced engineers in the development
and institutionalization of a Digital Engineering environment set
to confront these challenges. As a member of the Verification,
Validation and Transition (VV&T) team you will be responsible
for technical support of the planning and execution of enterprise
and system-level verification, validation and transition activities
for national assets, associated ground segments and services, and
information processing systems within the enterprise. The
Verification, Validation and Transition (VV&T) team is
responsible for technical support of the planning and execution of
enterprise and system-level verification, validation and transition
activities for national assets, associated ground segments and
services, and information processing systems within the enterprise.
In support of the Verification, Validation and Transition
(VV&T) team, the candidate is required to have a strong GEOINT,
SIGINT, or COMM Test engineering background and significant space
and ground domain knowledge in customer mission technical
capabilities and performance. The candidate may have daily
interaction with the customer and supporting contractors and will
need to follow customer standards and processes as the program
matures through the life cycle. Candidate will interact with
multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs) and facilitate risk and action
closure with Acquisition Offices and users, and support technical
consultation, meeting coordination, and support to recommendation
briefings. Duties include: + Evaluation of architecture,
requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for VV&T
impacts. + Evaluation of architecture, requirements, risks and
opportunities, and processes for VV&T impacts. + Definition of
VV&T activities and associated VV&T products (e.g.,
strategies, plans, Requests for Change (RFC), procedures,
checklists, RVTMs, briefings, etc.) for new and modified mission
and service capabilities. + Lead or support the execution of those
VV&T activities (e.g., Test events, Transitions, Milestone
Readiness Events. + Prepare reports describing the results, risk
assessment, discrepancy reporting and lessons learned of those
VV&T activities. + Synthesizes customer contractual needs,
requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into
solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning
systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities. + Plans
and arranges the labor, schedules, and resources required for
integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems. +
Establishes standards, practices, and procedures for integrating,
testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise
capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders. + Evaluates
enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts,
requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for
integration, test, evaluation, and transition impacts. + Designs,
develops, and implements test and evaluation strategies, plans and
methods to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system
specifications and defined enterprise capabilities, and integrates
system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole. +
Reviews, evaluates, and derives requirements for testability. +
Ensures systems and enterprise capabilities comply with
requirements and standards through formal verification methods. +
Generates system requirement and enterprise capability verification
approaches and customer acceptance criteria. + Participates in
reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure
traceability of requirements compliance through verification and
validation. + Develops and directs preparation for and execution of
comprehensive test & evaluation plans, procedures and schedules
which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system
requirements, performance, and operability. Coordinate's system
integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities with other
organizations. + Conducts readiness for system integration, test,
evaluation, and transition activities. + Compile's data and defines
changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures,
testing processes, or new testing requirements. + Implements
testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those
processes. Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test
metrics. + Performs analysis and evaluations of systems under test.
+ Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical
performance measures. + Performs analysis of test results and
prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk
assessments. Evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration
regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting
systems and enterprise capabilities. + Provides direct, interfacing
support to the customer for system integration, test, and
evaluation and transition activities. Qualifications: + Minimum of
10 to 12 years with a B.S/B.A. or 8 to 10 years with a MS/MA/MBA or
5 to 7 years with a PhD. + Current and Active TS/SCI with Poly U.S.
Security Clearance. + Verification, Validation and Transition
(VV&T) experience within overall customer domain. + Strong
business acumen: ability to relate professionally inside the work
environment. + Detailed knowledge of GEOINT, SIGINT or COMM systems
and overall space and ground architecture. + Expertise in mission
technical capabilities and system performance analysis and
assessment. + Experience with Mission Planning, Control or
Processing functions in support of space and ground. Architecture.
+ Experience writing test strategies and plans, executing tests,
analyzing data, and summarizing results. + Experience in system
integration and transition approaches to accommodate the End-to-End
GEOINT, SIGINT or COMM lifecycle. + Commitment to recognize,
understand, respect, and operate effectively within various SETA,
FFRDC, and Government lines of authority. Desired Skills: +
Familiarity with overall Intelligence Community Customer, technical
familiarity with one or more GEOINT, SIGINT or COMM systems. +
Experience with VV&T from an acquisition office, operations or
systems engineering perspective. + Prior experience with our
customer's VV&T Branch. Prior experience with GEOINT, SIGINT,
communications, ground systems and services, and/or mission
operations is highly desired. + Experience with commercial VV&T
techniques in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments, or
for infrastructure or application service provider environments, is
also highly desirable. Solvarus employment relationships are made
without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, national
origin, marital status, veteran status, the presence of any
physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other
status or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Discrimination or harassment based upon any of these factors is
wholly inconsistent with our company values. Solvarus employment
relationships are made without regard to age, race, color,
religion, creed, sex, national origin, marital status, veteran
status, the presence of any physical or mental disability, genetic
information or any other status or characteristic protected by
federal, state, or local law. Discrimination or harassment based
upon any of these factors is wholly inconsistent with our company
values and will not be tolerated. Powered by JazzHR
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