- Requisition ID: 2897
- Standard Title: Systems Engineer
- Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
- Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
- Work Type: On-Site
- Shift: First
- Referral Eligibility: Eligible
- U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes
Position SummaryBase-2 Solutions is seeking a Systems Engineer 3 / SETA Test Coordinator to serve as the central, active facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events across multiple Government teams and vendors. This role coordinates one or more high-visibility, staggered test events across the full test life cycle and provides timely status updates to Government leads.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Serve as the central facilitator of contractual and programmatic test events by driving communication, streamlining information reception, and removing dependencies across multiple Government teams and vendors.
- Coordinate one or more high-visibility, staggered test events concurrently across the full test life cycle.
- Provide timely status updates to Government Leads, including Agile Release Train Leads, Project Directors, CORs, and other stakeholders.
- 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 chatrooms, emails, and verbal communication, on unclassified and classified networks.
- Identify and recommend actions to remove gaps in information or communication.
- Escalate issues to appropriate teams or, when necessary, to Government Leads.
- Centralize presentation of test-event data across teams and vendors.
- Create SOPs and templates for Government use.
- Maintain a broad view of testing activities for assigned equipment 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 status messaging for each test event.
- Coordinate with other teams in the setup of the system or environment under test, including hardware, software, and network configurations.
- Ensure each test environment meets event-specific criteria.
- 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 culmination of multiple test reports summarizing the environment, detailed results, and recommendations.
- Identify, track, and help mitigate risks that could impact testing schedule, scope, or quality.
- Provide recommendations on decisions and priorities for 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 the 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 messaging.
- Facilitate identification and incorporation of lessons learned to improve future testing efforts.
Required Qualifications- Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.
- Experience in systems engineering sufficient to meet one of the stated education/experience pathways.
- Strong experience coordinating schedule-driven, project-level activities across multiple participants.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to synthesize and summarize complex technical information for diverse audiences.
- Experience working across multiple stakeholders, including Government teams, industry vendors, and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to escalate appropriately 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.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to identify gaps, assess risks, and recommend prioritization of test activities.
- Ability to coordinate environment setup, issue management, reporting, planning, scheduling, and closure activities across the test life cycle.
Required Education and Experience EquivalencyEducationYears of ExperienceHigh School Diploma/GED12Associates Degree12Bachelors' Degree7Masters' Degree5PhD3
Required CertificationsRequired Security Clearance- Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.
Pay & Benefit HighlightsCompensation- 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).
