Test Coordination Systems Engineer

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is hiring a Test Coordination Systems Engineer to support a mission-critical High Performance Computing (HPC) program of national importance. This cutting-edge program encompasses everything from HPC test planning and execution, to architecture design, prototyping, and vendor collaboration. Technical areas span commercial cloud technologies, HPC, and enterprise architecture directly supporting the success of U.S. national security objectives.

This is an opportunity to be part of a high-profile, tactically important program, where your contributions are directly recognized for their impact.

This is a government-contracted Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) role in which the selected systems engineer will serve as the central, active facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events by driving communication, streamlining information reception, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors. They will be assigned one or more high-visibility, staggered test events to concurrently coordinate, spanning the full test life-cycle of the test event, and will provide timely status updates to Government Leads (Agile Release Train (ART) Leads, Project Directors, CORs, etc.). This role will support the following functions:

• Communications and Collaboration:
• Facilitate regular meetings and communications mechanisms to discuss progress, address issues, and mitigate risks.
• Liaise between the vendor, integrator, development and testing teams to ensure effective communications.
• Identify information gaps and provide recommendations to address them.
• Test Event Coordination:
• Track testing activities across different project phases.
• Monitor test case execution and track progress against the test plan,
• Ensure defects are documented, prioritized, tracked and resolved.
• Provide stakeholders with updates on testing activities.
• Capture, document, and promulgate testing lessons learned.
• Issue Management:
• Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing.
• Facilitate issue resolution by collaborating with teams, vendors and stakeholders.
• Planning and Scheduling:
• Provide recommendations on test scope definitions, objectives, and success criteria.
• Review test plans and test cases to ensure they are well-defined, relevant, and feasible.

 As a Test Coordination Systems Engineer, you will:

• Monitor systems test activities associated with HPC system capability activities.
• Prepare and review compliance matrix associated with test activities.
• Coordinate the integrated test schedule across stakeholders.
• Represent the HPC program equities at HPC capability stakeholder test meetings.
• Monitor HPC contracts testing requirements to ensure compliance by vendors and that appropriate annotations are recorded in program documentation as test events are successfully concluded. #AJCM

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Qualifications

 Required Qualifications:

•  Required Education and Experience:
• A High School Diploma or GED plus fourteen (14) years of general systems engineering experience, OR
• A Bachelor’s degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus ten (10) years of systems engineering experience, OR
• A Master’s degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eight (8) years of systems engineering experience.
• Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Polygraph must have been completed in the last 5 years.

Desired Qualifications:

• While experience as a tester is not required, a basic understanding of the purpose and function of various types of testing (Unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, and operational acceptance tests) is essential.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.