Peraton is hiring a Zero Trust Test Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. As a Test Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a part-time position requiring 1664 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a Zero Trust Test Engineer on our team, you will support the government with planning, test oversight, and verification and validation activities as part of a customer organization at an Annapolis Junction Maryland Complex. You will support the governments effort to establish a formal approach to developmental test and evaluation, operational test and evaluation and interoperability testing for a large program. In particular, you will assist the government by providing:

• Expertise in Test Configuration Management,
• Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) strategy development,
• Test planning to include advise on design and implementation of test and evaluation strategies,
• Leadership for technical reviews on Systems Engineering/Testing artifacts, and prepare comments and recommendations,
• Participation in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements,
• Engagement with Governments procured development test team on test planning, feature mapping, bug fixes, technical debt,
• Awareness of status and schedule of programs of interest,
• Monitoring of program preparation and execution of comprehensive test and evaluation plans, procedures, and schedules,
• Coordination to ensure system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities remain aligned across all stakeholders,
• Recommendations of necessary changes in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing process, or new testing requirements,
• Providing the Government with IV&V, assisting during testing activities, and
• Planning for and monitoring of interoperability testing.

Individual Capabilities/Experience Required:

• Eight (8) years of experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Be experienced in software testing of systems at the component, integration, systems, and end-to-end levels.
• Position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired:

• Experience in a Cyber environment

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

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