Ground Systems and Test Engineer (IVVT)

Location US-VA-Chantilly
ID 2025-7552
Category
Information Technology
Position Type
Full-Time
Remote
No
Clearance Level
Top Secret w/SCI

Overview

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

 

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

 

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

 

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

 

Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description

Markon Solutions is seeking a Ground Systems (IVVT - Independent Verification, Validation, and Testing) Engineer to support one of our customers in the Intelligence Community from Chantilly, VA. This is an opportunity to work on some of the most amazing geospatial systems ever built. 

Responsibilities

The selected candidate will support a wide-range of Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) and programmatic activities, to include:

  • Support SE&I across customer program office IVV&T activities, including test planning, scheduling and integration, cross-program coordination in support of verification, test case analysis, test witnessing, applying automated testing concepts, and interacting with cross-component activities to ensure end-to-end requirements tracing through sell-off and reporting.
  • Synthesize customer needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into recommendations and solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.
  • Create, review/analyze, and coordinate a myriad artifacts, strategies, plans, conops, schedules, risks, Request For Change (RFC) documents, requirements, requirements traceability, test-related content, briefings, tasker responses, etc.
  • Assist in the planning, management, review, execution, and improvement of related-enterprise and component-level SE&I agile processes.
  • Assist the Program Office in preparation for, and engagement in, agile planning and management activities to include increment and sprint planning and providing status, backlog grooming, scrum participation and facilitation, and impediment identification and resolution.
  • Perform assessment and consultation on various mission, domain area, and technical products and activities as needed.
  • Perform data analysis tasks and provide recommendations and status reporting on various metrics and systems/processes/activities.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Active TS/SCI with CI Poly in required
    • CI Poly eligibility may be considered depending on the active SCI/clearance status.
  • Experience working in government or industry in relevant SE&I-related functions including:
    • Requirements processes, execution of requirements derivation, decomposition and sell-off;
    • Software test planning and scheduling, integration, verification, validation and transition, and/or automated testing.
  • Experience authoring, reviewing, and coordinating a variety of technical documentation to include Request For Change (RFCs), Test plans and schedules, context diagramming with respect to test events.
  • Demonstrated experience with, and understanding of, the systems engineering life cycle, governance processes, and project management.
  • Experience and ability to work collaboratively with mission partners and stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
  • Great customer teaming skills: ability to lead and collaborate in cross-functional teams.
  • Accomplished written communicator and presenter.
  • Ability to organize, schedule, and accomplish a wide variety of tasks.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Atlassian Jira and Confluence.

 

Desired:

  • Experience with TestRail or Zephyr test tools
  • Experience with Atlassian Jira Roadmaps
  • Agile Solution Implementation

Salary Range

USD $125,000.00 - USD $140,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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