System Engineer / Tester

Peraton is seeking a Systems Engineer/Tester to join our Engineering, Delivery & Mobile Technology team in support of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). In this role, you will assess the feasibility of proposed concepts through technology evaluations, develop requirements documents and statements of work to meet internal customer business needs.  The ideal candidate will design and implement efficient, scalable technical solutions. You will evaluate, test, and certify software and hardware technologies prior to pilot and production deployment, while also providing maintenance support to manage ongoing changes and enhancements throughout the system life-cycle. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of both short- and long-term technology strategies aligned with customer objectives to ensure optimal performance and alignment with business goals.

Location: On-site in Merrifield, VA

Day to Day Work Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing the systems development life cycle (SDLC) process including business needs analysis, requirement gathering, information system architecture, design, integration, implementation, QA, deployment, and production maintenance.
• Create and maintain project plans and schedules, set milestones, assign resources, and identify/mitigate risks to ensure successful execution.
• Oversee activities of vendors providing hardware and software solutions related to the project.
• Coordinate major releases with local and remote deployment support teams, as well as briefing customer group representatives on new features and changes.
• Interface with customer groups to understand business needs and drive effective requirements gathering.
• Manage iterations of design, implementation, and deployment efforts. Keep customers engaged to ensure that the final work product meets customer expectations.
• Review proposed new features and connectivity to provide feedback on feasibility and potential impact
• Responsible for synthesizing customer contractual needs and requirements into system test solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints.
• Develops and directs preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules for completing systems.
• Coordinates integrated testing activities.
• Reviews and evaluates test requirements to ensure completeness of test program.
• Performs technical analysis of complete systems and prepares comprehensive system level evaluations.
• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains standards for software quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures.
• Conducts software inspection, testing, verification and validation.
• Implements software development and maintenance processes and methods.
• Ensure measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives.
• Ensure that project and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contract.
• Reviews software design, change specifications, and plans against contractual and/or process requirements.
• Reviews include applicable specifications, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies.
• Performs or directs verification of software requirement allocations, traceability, and testability.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience or or a Masters degree and 3 years of experience or a High School Diploma and 9 years of experience
• Must be a U.S Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card)
  • Candidate must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years. 
  • Candidate must have an active Public Trust.
• Experience with requirements analyzing and developing software requirements.
• Software testing and experience in quality assurance in a software development environment.
• Experience with requirements analyzing and developing software requirements.
• Experience in quality assurance in a software development environment.
• Must be proficient with SQL/Oracle SQL Developer.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.