Ground Vehicle Systems Center – GVSC Looking for Software Test Engineer (Ref #R0953) at Warren, MI Full Time

Software Test Engineer or Senior Software Test Engineer

Job Title:

Software Test Engineer or Senior Software Engineer with CCDC GVSC’s Software Engineering Center, Department of Army, Warren, Michigan

About the position:

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities and Development Command (CCDC) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) is fully committed to supporting the warfighter. In order to fulfill our mission requirements we need a strong and ready civilian workforce. As a government employer, CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center offers an attractive benefit package that includes: flexible work schedule, health and life insurance, retirement plan, accrued paid annual/sick leave, professional development training and educational tuition assistance programs for qualified employees. Applicants must be United States citizens able to successfully complete a full background check.

The mission of CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center is to develop, integrate and sustain the right technology solutions for all manned and unmanned Department of Defense (DoD) ground systems and combat support systems to improve Current Force effectiveness and provide superior capabilities for the Future Force.

The CCDC GVSC’s Software Engineering Center provides software engineering and software life cycle management services to ground systems acquisition and technology development programs. We develop, acquire, integrate, assess, test, maintain & support software products.

For more information visit: https://gvsc.army.mil/

Duties:

Candidate will serve as the Software Test Lead to direct and manage all technical and programmatic aspects of the project throughout the entire software development life-cycle.

Specific duties associated with this position are as follows:

• Contributing to the development of program’s test strategy, approach, process, planning, schedule, and resource requirements. In addition, managing the implementation of an evaluation methodology and framework for product/system under test.

• Developing of test materials/data for technical and progress reviews, to include risk assessment. In addition, the identification and coordination of SEC personnel.
• Becoming familiar with the software under test and any other related software
• Understanding the master test plan and/ or the project plan
• Developing/updating formal test plans and test cases based on the review and analysis of requirements, use cases, and other design documents
• Ensure requirements traceability matrices (RTM) trace from/to test cases and requirements
• Work closely with development engineers, QA engineers, and other stakeholders who support the verification/validation testing
• Procuring test data required for testing
• Setting up required test beds (hardware, software and network)
• Creating or assist in creating test automation
• Testing of software releases by executing assigned tests (manual and/ or automated)
• Reporting test results and defects to the stakeholders
• Creating test logs
• Troubleshooting faults or anomalies with the hardware, software, and test procedures
• Expected to travel occasionally to various locations in support of related meetings and test events as testing, site assessments, and product/process audits and acceptance.
• Understanding of CMMI process areas and process requirements related to testing

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Must be able to obtain a U.S. Government Security Clearance.
• Work independently and in a team environment with minimal supervision.
• Must have strong writing skills to generate scopes of tests, procedures, schedules, and to assist in generating technical documentation in support of various GVSC programs
• Must have the ability to work in a collaborative environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow through on tasks
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to meet short and long term deadlines
• Ability to work with, mentor, and lead other test resources
• Knowledge of different test methodologies, tools, and practices
• Knowledge of software automation to include scripting, debugging, execution, and analysis
• Understanding of object oriented and component based product development

Desired Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience with languages: C/C++, Windows and Linux shell scripts
• Working knowledge of embedded software systems
• Ability to test and manage vehicle electronic software solutions to provide and sustain operational capabilities within military ground systems and vehicles.
• Knowledge and experiences with the engineering and integration of military ground vehicle electronics systems and subsystems.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply ISO/IEC 12207 standards for software and systems engineering and industry best practices associated with SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) level 3 and above and Lean/6-Sigma principles to software process engineering, management and control.

Applicants:

Please email your resume to:  usarmy.detroit.devcom-gvsc.mbx.sec-sw-acquisition