Test Director

Company: Lockheed Martin
Location: Herndon
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID-19 Community Level at the specific work location.Description:Stormbreaker Operations team is seeking a highly motivated Systems Engineer to direct all phases of verification, testing and installation of software changes and hardware component changes to a large, complex information system. Lead projects pertaining to software testing and transition, and ensure that schedules, activities, requirements and resources are properly coordinated.The Test Director is expected to perform work under general direction. The selected candidate is also expected to meet technical results, quality and schedule objectives for assigned tasks as well as thoroughly understand and apply technical principles and concepts solving moderately complex problems with minimal assistance.Other responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following: participation in test status meetings and review boards, authoring Problem Reports, test plan development, coordination with end users,enterprise verification and test procedure management (i.e. development, release and maintenance). Software engineering to include some occasional programming is possible in order to resolve minor software bugs and other code baseline maintenance activities are also possible in this role.Weekend/evening or call-in work occasionally required in support of scheduled and unscheduled test activities. Occasional travel may be required to New Mexico and/or Pennsylvania.Other common Test Director activities include: - Coordinate and conduct segment level and multi-segment testing - Define test requirements and system transition procedures - Conduct external segment interface verification - Develop, write and issue test documents - Coordinate and schedule system resources to support testing - Conduct test and operational demo planning - Chair or participate in Test Status Meetings - Support integration and plan of future deliveries and systems - Support system anomalies as required - Participate in engineering review boards - Coordinate and support off-hours testing for associated projectsBasic Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering, Test Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Assurance and/or technical training.- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to work in a dynamic, team-based environment.- Demonstrated individual initiative - Experienced with evaluation/troubleshooting test failures using diagnostic methods and tools- Experience with virtual computing environments using at least one of these technologies: Linux, Java, C/C++/C#, Oracle, SQL, Perl and Shell Scripting, XML and .NET Development Studios- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems- Current TS/SCI w/Poly ClearanceDesired Skills:- Prior Customer / Mission experience- Stormbreaker experience including knowledge of Stormbreaker mission software and/or testing methodology as well as software problem reporting and configuration management tools- Experience with Agile Software Processes in an O&M environment

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