Principal Penetration Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Act as an emerging authority, applying extensive technical expertise.
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems.
• Exercise considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
• Synthesize customer contractual needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.
• Plan and arrange labor, schedules, and resources required for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems.
• Establish standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinate with stakeholders.
• Evaluate enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation, and transition impacts.
• Design, develop, and implement test and evaluation strategies, plans, and methods to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system specifications and defined enterprise capabilities, and integrate system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole.
• Review, evaluate, and derive requirements for testability.
• Ensure systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods.
• Generate system requirement and enterprise capability verification approaches and customer acceptance criteria.
• Participate in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements compliance through verification and validation.
• Develop and direct preparation for and execution of comprehensive test & evaluation plans, procedures, and schedules which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system requirements, performance, and operability.
• Coordinate system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities with other organizations.
• Conduct readiness for system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities.
• Compile data and define changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing processes, or new testing requirements.
• Implement testing processes and ensure all test activities follow those processes.
• Produce reports on each test activity and track test metrics.
• Perform analysis and evaluations of systems under test.
• Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Perform analysis of test results and prepare comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments.
• Evaluate discrepancy reports and perform integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities.
• Provide direct, interfacing support to the customer for system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities.
• Monitor for continual process improvement and lessons learned, and report to management periodically.

Qualifications

• Education: BS (8–10 years), MS (6–8 years), or PhD (3–5 years)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance

The projected compensation range is $103,142.28 to $202,942.36. Differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate include Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies, geographic location (for remote opportunities), education, and certifications, as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Retirement and Savings
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Other optional benefit elections