Test and Evaluation Support Engineer, Senior

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Test and Evaluation Support Engineer, Senior located Kettering, OH (Dayton/WPAFB area) to support our EPASS GB contract. As part of the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES), the Depot Maintenance Systems Integration (DMSI) is six software applications integrated by a consolidated database. DMSI manages programmed and un-programmed repair, upgrade, or modification of major weapon systems. It identifies materials for pre-positioning and initiates cost-control measures for material usage. It establishes and maintains labor standards for planning and pricing. It supports depot capacity simulations to determine capability for surge planning and normal operation tempos. DMSI assigns item-tracking numbers to all parts and tracks through disassembly, repair, and assembly activities. It provides the capability to plan, induct workload, control inventory, and track repair operations to completion. It documents standard labor hours earned by depot level maintenance activities. DMSI provides command-level data for mission capability assessments by the Air Force Materiel Command.

As a Test and Evaluation Support Engineer, Senior your duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide Test and Evaluation (T&E) support for product lines, capability delivery teams, and development and delivery of BES Test Services accomplished in accordance with DoW, AF, AFMC, AFLCMC, BES, product line, and/or capability delivery team, Acquisition and T&E policy, guidance processes and procedures, and standard tools and services.

• Prepare, coordinate review and approval, and manage execution oftest strategy, concepts, methodology, plans, processes and procedures;

• Provide T&E-related expertise in various DoW Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) and System/Software Development Life Cycles (SDLCs); advise, advocate, and/or incorporate; optimal combinations within test strategies, plans, policy & guidance, and/or procedures

• Apply Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques (STAT) and Design of Experiments (DoE) methods;

• Provide support to plan, implement, and execute test automation leveraging DevSecOps;

• Manage and support test execution, data gathering. data reduction and analysis, and reporting;

• Review, analyze, report, and recommend updates to Key Performance Indicators (KPis), Critical Technical Parameters (CTPs), and/or measures (of effectiveness, suitability, performance, and survivability);

• Support implementation and management of system/software quality reporting, e.g., cumulative tracking and management of software problem reports and/or defects;

• Support capability delivery team Integrated Test Team (ITT) formation, organization, and operations;

• Independently prepare (or advise others in the preparation of) test criteria, computation/analyses, specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports;

• Select and apply T&E techniques and procedures to analyze and evaluate specific problems, data, or other features of the work which are broad in scope and complexity;

• Review and evaluate the quantity, quality, and overall adequacy of results and conclusions drawn from accomplishment of T&E tasks;

• Devise new and innovative approaches to problems encountered, and accomplish assigned tasks with efficiency, timeliness, and thoroughness;

• Evaluate the configuration, capability, and operational relevance of test environments and ensure they are properly available for the thorough testing of software releases, e.g., fault insertion/fault identification;

• Prepare T&E segments of Acquisition documentation;

• Support T&E-related certification test activities, e.g., Joint Interoperability Test Center (JITC);

• Support T&E-related audit and/or inspection activities;

• Provide and/or support T&E-related training required to execute test activities;

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