Test Engineer at Cognosante, LLC

We need one to ensure systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience, 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related scientific or technical discipline
• Knowledge in testing functionality, matching to requirements, and in having primary responsibility for individual projects and systems
• Experience working in an Agile scrum solution development and testing environment
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Visio, One Note, Outlook)
• Able to pass a background check to obtain a VA Public Trust (High-Risk) clearance
• Candidates that do not meet the required qualifications will not be considered

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in the Federal Government, Veteran's Administration (VA) experience a plus.
• Extensive knowledge of VA VISTA systems and VA financial systems.
• Experience working in a geographically dispersed project team environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Visio, One Note, Outlook)
• Active VA Public Trust (High-Risk) clearance

Description

Security Clearance required:

Able to obtain Public Trust

Cognosante is on a mission to transform our country’s healthcare and national security systems. With our health and security-focused solutions, we help public sector organizations achieve the important task of providing the best possible public services to American Citizens. From Enterprise IT, Data Science, and Security Services, to full-scale Consumer Engagement and Interoperability solutions, we are moving government services forward with transformation and innovation. Learn how we are making a difference in people’s lives today!

Job Description

The Test Engineer manages testing activities; coordinates the development and execution of test plans; documents, implements, monitors, and enforces all processes and procedures for testing; assigns testing tasks within the testing team; facilitates communications between the development and testing teams; verifies readiness of release through release review process; obtains customer signature on deliverables; reviews and approves contractor test plans; drafts testing reports and forwards to Project Managers, Activity Project Managers, and Contract Project Managers; and prepares QA reports for release ready builds. Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills are essential to this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Synthesizes customer contractual needs, requirements including technical, schedule, and cost constraints into solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.
• Establishes standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders.
• Evaluates enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation, and transition impacts.
• Designs, develops, and implements test and evaluation strategies; plans and measures to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system specifications and defined enterprise capabilities; and integrates system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole.
• Reviews, evaluates, and derives requirements for testability.
• Ensures systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods.
• Generates system requirement and enterprise capability verification approaches and customer acceptance criteria.
• Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirement compliance through verification and validation.
• Develops and directs preparation for and execution of comprehensive test and evaluation plans, procedures, and schedules which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system requirements, performance and operability.
• Coordinates system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities with other organizations.
• Conducts readiness for system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities.
• Compiles data and defines changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing processes, or new testing requirements.
• Implements testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.
• Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.
• Performs analysis and evaluations of systems under test.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments.
• Evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities.
• Provides direct, interfacing support to the customer for system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities.
• Has extensive knowledge of VA VISTA systems and VA financial systems.
• Perform interface testing and act as a liaison between vendor and VA legacy system teams.
• Analyze Interface Control Specification documents and create test suites for validation.
• Monitors for continual process improvement and lessons learned, and reports to management periodically.

Compensation

$110,609.43 - $182,506.63

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may will be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosante’s total compensation package for employees and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee.

Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

Like many other growing companies, Cognosante has been targeted by scammers attempting to make fraudulent job offers to potential candidates. Communication from Cognosante recruiting will only be sent with an official corporate domain email (e.g., @cognosante.com or @accurate.com) and not a commercial domain e-mail (e.g., @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at

[email protected]

. Thank you.

Cognosante is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.