Systems Engineer Test Coordinator - Level 3

About

CCS Global Tech is a rapidly growing Information Technology company with a diverse portfolio of technology products and services and a large network of industry partnerships. With over 22 years of success and a global talent pool, CCS is a certified Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in Microsoft-based solutions. Recognized by Inc. 500 Magazine as one of the fastest growing small companies in the United States.

We are a Tier 1 vendor for the City and County of San Francisco for Cloud Services, Staffing Services, and Training Services. We hold sizable Government accounts in the San Francisco Bay area including City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County, and Santa Clara County.

Responsibilities

• Analyze users' requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
• Lead design and development activities based on system requirements.
• Guide users in formulating requirements, advise alternative approaches, and conduct feasibility studies.
• Provide technical leadership for integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• Incorporate new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations.
• Develop technical documentation including system architecture and design documentation.
• Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Serve as central facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events by driving communication, streamlining information reception, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors.
• Facilitate regular meetings and communication mechanisms to discuss progress, address issues, and mitigate risks.
• Liaise between vendor, integrator, development and testing teams to ensure effective communication.
• Participate in communications from multiple channels on unclassified and classified networks.
• Identify and provide recommendations to remove gaps in information or communication.
• Escalate issues to appropriate teams or Government Leads.
• Centralize data presentation of test events across teams and vendors.
• Create SOPs and Templates for government use.
• Maintain a broad view of all testing activities across different test phases.
• Track and communicate information across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor test case execution and track progress against the test plan.
• Ensure defects and issues are properly logged, prioritized, tracked, and resolved.
• Provide periodic messaging on status updates for each test event.
• Coordinate with other teams in the setup of the system/environment under test, including hardware, software, and network configurations.
• Ensure that the environment under each test event meets criteria per event.
• Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing.
• Facilitate resolution of issues by working with teams, vendors and stakeholders.
• Summarize regular test status reports for stakeholders.
• Facilitate culmination of multiple test reports summarizing environment, detailed results, and recommendations.
• Identify, track and help mitigate potential risks impacting testing schedule, scope, or quality.
• Provide recommendations on decisions and priorities of test activities.
• Provide recommendations to help define testing scope, objectives, and criteria for success.
• Facilitate review of detailed test plans, including timelines and milestones.
• Coordinate resources and schedules between vendor, integrator, and testing teams.
• Coordinate with Government teams to develop test cases covering all required functionality and edge cases.
• Review test cases to ensure they are well-defined, relevant, and feasible.
• Coordinate test closure activities including final testing, documentation updates, and messaging.
• Facilitate identification and instrumentation of lessons learned to improve future testing efforts.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED plus twelve years of general system engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline plus seven years of systems engineering experience.
• Master's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline plus five years of systems engineering experience.
• PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline plus three years of systems engineering experience.
• Strong experience coordinating schedule-driven, project-level activities across multiple participants.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to synthesize and summarize complex technical information.
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders including government teams, industry vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Proficiency supporting requirements validation activities.
• Proficiency tracking schedules and anticipating logistical challenges.
• Proficiency using ticketing systems, collaboration platforms, and dashboard tools.
• Analytical mindset to identify gaps, assess risks, and recommend prioritization of test activities.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.