Systems Engineer 3 (Test Coordinator)

Position Summary

The SE3 Test Coordinator serves as the central, active facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events by driving communication, streamlining information flow, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors. This role supports one or more high-visibility, staggered test events concurrently across the full test lifecycle and provides timely status updates to Government Leads, including Agile Release Train (ART) Leads, Project Directors, and CORs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Actively participate in communications across multiple channels, including chat, email, and verbal coordination, on both unclassified and classified networks.
• Identify communication or information gaps and provide recommendations to resolve them.
• Escalate issues to appropriate teams and, when necessary, to Government Leads.
• Centralize presentation of test event data across teams and vendors.
• Create standard operating procedures (SOPs) and templates for Government use.
• Maintain a broad view of all testing activities for assigned equipment across multiple test phases.
• Actively 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 status messaging for each test event.
• Coordinate with other teams to support setup of the system or environment under test, including hardware, software, and network configurations.
• Ensure each test environment meets the required criteria for its respective test event.
• Triage, prioritize, and summarize issues reported during testing.
• Facilitate issue resolution by working with teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Summarize regular test status reports for stakeholders.
• Facilitate the development of multiple test reports summarizing the environment, detailed results, and recommendations.
• Identify, track, and help mitigate risks that could impact test schedule, scope, or quality.
• Provide recommendations regarding decisions and prioritization of test activities.
• Provide recommendations to help define test scope, objectives, and success criteria.
• Facilitate review of detailed test plans, including timelines and milestones.
• Coordinate resources and schedules among vendor, integrator, and testing teams.
• Coordinate with Government teams to develop test cases covering 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 status messaging.
• Facilitate capture and implementation of lessons learned to improve future testing efforts.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.
• Twelve (12) years of general systems engineering experience with a High School Diploma or GED; or seven (7) years of systems engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline from an accredited college or university; or five (5) years of systems engineering experience with a Master's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline from an accredited college or university; or three (3) years of systems engineering experience with a PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Experience analyzing user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to support development of system requirements specifications.
• Experience analyzing system requirements and supporting design and development activities.
• Ability to guide users in formulating requirements, advise on alternative approaches, and support feasibility studies.
• Ability to provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• Experience incorporating new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations.
• Experience developing technical documentation, including system architecture and system design documentation.
• Experience supporting system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• Ability to interact with the Government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Ability to communicate effectively with program personnel, Government overseers, and senior executives.
• Ability to coordinate multiple concurrent, high-visibility test events across the full test lifecycle.
• Ability to provide timely status updates to Government Leads, including ART Leads, Project Directors, and CORs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience coordinating schedule-driven, project-level activities across multiple participants, such as Project Directors, Program Managers, and Test Leads.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to accurately synthesize and summarize complex technical information for diverse audiences.
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders, including Government teams, industry vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Comfort escalating issues to Government Leads, including ART Leads and CORs.
• Proficiency supporting requirements validation activities.
• Proficiency tracking schedules and anticipating logistical challenges.
• Proficiency using ticketing systems, collaboration platforms, and dashboard tools.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to identify gaps, assess risks, and recommend prioritization of test activities.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency
Education Years of Experience High School Diploma/GED 12 Associates Degree 12 Bachelors' Degree 7 Masters' Degree 5 PhD 3 Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

Pay & Benefit Highlights
Compensation

• Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
• Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
• Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

• 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
• 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

• 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
• 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).