Job Title: Senior Specialist, Integration and Test Engineer

Job Code: 16521

Job Location: Sterling, VA

Job Description:

 We are seeking an experienced System Engineer /  Integration & Test Engineer with a minimum of 6 years’ experience integrating and testing complex network systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for integration of customized software and hardware in a quick paced, engineering oriented environment.  This Engineer will maintain development, test and production environments while integrating new technologies and maintaining system stability. This engineer will support creation of training material and conduct training of the products to the end user.

The Engineer will work mostly independently, under limited supervision, collaborating with developers and program leadership to identify and capture defects, troubleshoot, and resolve integration issues while ensuring conformance of products to specifications. This position will require excellent critical thinking skills to debug, analyze and verify products meet functional and performance requirements.

Essential Functions: 

• Support the set-up, configuration, and documentation of hardware and software systems under test, including loading custom and commercial software onto multiple systems
• Support design, development, automate and implementation of systems and procedures across multiple air-gapped networks
• Builds, configures, troubleshoots, and integrates new and existing configuration items (hardware) packages to provide service enhancements, application deployments and infrastructure upgrades
• Define, design and execute system level test events (create plans, procedures, and reports) with in a TS environment.
• Responsible for configuration hardware, mastering the system and training others to successfully use the system.
• Supports training system operations
• Ability to take ownership of projects through completion

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience
• Top Secret or TS/SCI Clearance 

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Engineering principles, especially verification/validation
• Self-motivated individual able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Direct experience interfacing with customer personnel and leadership
• Demonstrated ability and desire to learn from self-training as well as via transfer of experience and technique
• Demonstrated humble, leadership in small, diverse team, fast paced environment
• Strong communication ability: verbal and written using MS Word and PowerPoint
• Experience communicating and presenting complex technical issues to various audiences (technical counterparts, program management, customer leadership, etc.)
• Strong ability to develop and manipulate MS Excel