Job Title: Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) Tester

Location: Fort Meade, MD.

Clearance: Active Secret Clearance

Job Description:

Business Integra is seeking an Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) Tester to join our team in Fort Meade, MD. The selected candidate will lead and perform interoperability test planning and conduct interoperability T&E, including analyzing test results and preparing thorough, accurate, and complete formal test documentation. The selected candidate will oversee all OT&E activities on the NBIS project. Travel estimate is 10-15%.

Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Provide T&E expertise on a wide range of Science and Technology activities and missions including test planning, test execution, data management, and test reporting.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of OT test planning documentation to determine system under test (SUT) OT requirements standards and criteria are met. Documentation to support this effort includes requirements analysis plans, data management analysis plans, and OT evaluation plans.
• Review applicable SUT requirements documents (e.g., Initial Capabilities Documents (ICDs), Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Capability Production Documents (CPDs), Information Support Plans (ISPs), Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), Concept of Operations (CONOPs), etc.) to ensure user requirements and criteria are correctly documented and included early in the T&E planning process.
• Recommend adjustments to the T&E process or detailed procedures to the program manager, program office staff, and other stakeholders.
• Incorporate Design of Experiment (DOE) and Scientific Based Test Design (SBTD) into T&E approaches.
• Ensure OT test requirements, test scenarios and test scripts adequately cover Key Performance Parameters (KPPs).
• Collect all OT related technical data found during T&E events.
• Record all initial findings and document final test results into applicable OT reports.
• Convene Data Authentication Groups (DAG) to score and authenticate data and investigate the causes of anomalies before the data proceeds further in data management processes.
• Record all Test and Incident Problem Reports (TIPRs) in Jira.
• Utilize manual data analysis methods and automated test tools to execute assessment of collected data.
• Execute collection of real-time test data, analysis of test results and drafting thorough, accurate, and complete formal test documentation.
• Deliver all formal test documentation via confluence.
• Participate in Working Integrated Product Team (WIPT) meetings, Test Concept Briefs (TCBs), Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), program reviews, teleconferences, and video teleconferences.
• Serve in a key technical role during design reviews to ensure tasks and actions meet specified milestone entrance/exit criteria and government-established top-level requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Must have extensive T&E Background
• Must have leadership experience.
• Must be able to interact with and brief government leadership in a fast past environment.
• Must be able to oversee and direct an OA team to accomplish OT&E testing and reporting in an agile environment on the NBIS system.
• Familiarity with the Agile Product Development Cycle
• Experience with Agile development processes and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
• Must be proficient with MS Office tools
• Experience with at least some of the following applications: ServiceNow, SharePoint
• Must possess solid organization abilities and be a motivated, flexible team player
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills