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Systems Engineer I
Springfield, VA

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Overview:

Every day at Perspecta, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to take on our nation's most important work. We're a company founded on a diverse set of capabilities and skills, bound together by a single promise: we never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. Our team of engineers, analysts, developers, investigators, integrators and architects work tirelessly to create innovative solutions. We continually push ourselves-to respond, to adapt, to go further. To look ahead to the changing landscape and develop new and innovative ways to serve our customers.

Perspecta works with U.S. government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care, and state and local markets. Our high-caliber employees are rewarded in many ways-not only through competitive salaries and benefits packages, but the opportunity to create a meaningful impact in jobs and on projects that matter.

Perspecta's talented and robust workforce-14,000 strong-stands ready to welcome you to the team. Let's make an impact together.

Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

Responsibilities:

Description:

The Systems Engineering & Integration for the National Systems for Geospatial-Intelligence program delivers full life-cycle systems integration and engineering services to the missions of its customer. This program is chartered to provide technical leadership for many of NGA's highest priorities, including the NSG IV&V project, which supports the NGA Test Organization. As the NGA Test Organization (NTO) test engineer and/or test director the candidate will be responsible for understanding the tested entity in order to fully exercise independently created day-in-the-life scenarios across all required interfaces to validate acceptance of the entity for operational use.

Responsibilities include the following:

* Acts as NTO Test Director and/or test engineer for variety of test activities, for example, a set of future or transformational NGA capabilities for a major NSG production system.
* Assists in planning test schedules for the NTO, also coordinates activities with Enterprise planners.
* Communicates test plan activities across NGA program offices and staffs.
* Reports and briefs status and progress, to senior management personnel within NGA.
* Tracks and reports significant activity regarding system development, development schedules, and readiness milestone reviews/results and issues (e.g., requirements/design/test readiness reviews).
* Assists in executing and validating the integration of NGA projects, segments, applications, and services into the Enterprise architecture.
* Reviews Requests for Change (RFCs) and Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) for test impacts and provides required inputs.
* Represents the NTO at technical meetings regarding systems and test issues and project and effectivity schedules, including meetings with program offices and users.

Qualifications:

Requried Qualfications:

* TS/SCI Clearance
* Minimum of 1 year of experience in related field
* BS in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent
* Ability to work independently and within a team environment
* Ability to operate NGA imagery-handling applications or the potential and interest to rapidly learn to use them in order to test them as an operator.
* Well-developed speaking and writing ability
* Ability and interest to learn NTO test policies and requirements as documented in the NSG Enterprise TEMP and T&E Process documentation
* Ability to brief senior forums

Desired Qualifications:

* Advanced degree in a technical field
* Imagery and/or geospatial systems experience takes precedence over test experience as a required qualification
* Knowledge of one or more components of the NGA imagery/geospatial archive/dissemination/exploitation architecture
* Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
* Experience

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