JOB TITLE: SYSTEMS ENGINEER/TEST
RATE RANGE: 65.00-70.00 PER HOUR
LOCATION: MERRIFIELD, VA/HYBRID
JOB #: 47565-1
REQUIRED SKILLS:
• A minimum of twelve (12) years experience with a Bachelors degree or nine (9) years experience with a Masters degree.
• Experience with requirements analyzing and developing software requirements; software testing and experience in quality assurance in a software development environment
• Must be proficient with SQL/Oracle SQL Developer.
Candidates must be local to Merrifield VA area - role will be hybrid, two days in office and three days remote.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Looking for a Senior System Engineer and Tester to join our Engineering, Delivery & Mobile Technology team to support one of our customers. The selected candidate will conduct technology evaluations assessing the feasibility of proposed concepts, develop requirements documents and statements-of-work to support the internal customers' business needs, design and implement efficient technical solutions, evaluate, test, and certify all software and hardware technologies prior to pilot and production release, provide maintenance support including managing on-going changes and/or enhancements throughout the life of the system, develop short- and long-term technology plans driven by the internal customers' business needs.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for overseeing the systems development life cycle (SDLC) process including business needs analysis, requirement gathering, information system architecture, design, integration, implementation, QA, deployment, and production maintenance.
• Create and maintain project plans and schedules, set milestones, assign resources, and identify/mitigate risks to ensure successful execution.
• Oversee activities of vendors providing hardware and software solutions related to the project.
• Coordinate major releases with local and remote deployment support teams, as well as briefing customer group representatives on new features and changes.
• Interface with customer groups to understand business needs and drive effective requirements gathering.
• Manage iterations of design, implementation, and deployment efforts. Keep customers engaged to ensure that the final work product meets customer expectations.
• Review proposed new features and connectivity to provide feedback on feasibility and potential impact
• Responsible for synthesizing customer contractual needs and requirements into system test solutions that acknowledges technical, schedule and cost constraints.
• Develops and directs preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules for completing systems.
• Coordinates integrated testing activities.
• Reviews and evaluates test requirements to insure completeness of test program.
• Performs technical analysis of complete systems and prepares comprehensive system level evaluations.
• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains standards for software quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures.
• Conducts software inspection, testing, verification and validation.
• Implements software development and maintenance processes and methods.
• Ensures measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives.
• Ensures that project and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contract.
• Reviews software design, change specifications, and plans against contractual and/or process requirements.
• Reviews include applicable specifications, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies.
• Performs or directs verification of software requirement allocations, traceability, and testability.
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
