Systems Engineer Test Tool Development and Automation

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KBRs National Security Solutions team provides highend engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position your work will have a profound impact on the countrys most critical role protecting our national security.

Why Join Us

• Innovative Projects: KBRs work is at the forefront of engineering logistics operations science program management mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

This is a contingent position based upon contract award.

KBR is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support government customers in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The Systems Engineer for Test Tool Development and Automation provides the expertise and experience of a Systems Engineer to establish and maintain a development environment incorporating industry standards and best practices to enable management of development epics and support an agile sprint development schedule. This individual will also provide support maintenance and continued updates of the business process applications in use by the customer while pursuing epics to consolidate disparate business processes into a single cloud based capability.

Responsibilities:

• Apply industry standards and best practices for managing test tool and software development including: discrepancy tracking reporting and resolution.

• Utilize industry best practices for dev test staging and production environments to include (but not limited to):

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • Platform as a Service Construct

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deploymen (Delivery) Tools for development deployment and configuration management of the architecture

  • Design for failure architecture approach

  • Containerization of Services where possible

  • Continuous Monitoring and Inspection of health and compliance to policy of Services/Environments

• Establish and maintain an agile sprint development environment in support of customer web tools and test tool development and maintenance; adhere to agile processes and methodologies.

• Adhere to prescribed processes and guidelines for web/tool development workstations and the development environment to include: requesting approval for software download/installation software configuration and software version control.

• Manage and maintain content for the customer web presence on multiple security domains to include site design content updates collecting web metrics and supporting access by external customers.

• Perform physical installation customization support maintenance license updates configurations and monitoring of business process applications that are part of the internal support environment.

• Develop a consolidated business process tool integrating and replacing the current project management capabilities; provide installation customization support maintenance license updates and monitoring of the consolidated business tool after implementation.

• Provide automated and manual test management capabilities to identify standardize and import test objectives test procedures test plans test documentation releases and cycles structure and design of overall and low level process flows.

• Provide database design development and maintenance (Oracle PostGRSQL or other as specified) for Test related web and tools projects.

• Attend and support customer planning events and technical meetings to include Vendor product reviews and daily startup and wrapup meetings.

Required Education Experience & Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Management Information Systems Information Technology Information Science Business Computer Science Mathematics or related quantitative science field.

• Over 8 years of relevant experience related to test automation engineering.

• Handson Linux experience

• Experience with Agile Software Development

• Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps DevSecOps Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

• Handson experience with Selenium automated test tool or similar products

• Ability to plan and conduct security testing

• Meaningful and relevant experience in developing test procedures

• Experience with systems engineering and configuration management processes Ability to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations

• Experience with requirements development and management

• Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following program languages: Perl Ruby Python and/or JavaScript

• Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following database technologies: SQL Oracle MySQL JBDC NOSQL etc.

• Experience and/or familiarity with automated test tools such as Docker Jenkins Rational Team Concert JIRA Git Chef Ansible Puppet Junit JMeter RSpec and/or Cucumber

• Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques.

Desired Education Experience & Skills:

• Masters degree in Engineering Management Information Systems Information Technology Information Science Business Computer Science Mathematics or related quantitative science field.

Security Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI (with poly preferred)

Belong Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin veteran status genetic information union status and/or beliefs or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.