SimIS, Inc.

Test Planner

Who We Are: Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

Job Title: Test Planner (Quick Reaction Test Coordinator) for JTE 

Job Description: Serve as the Test Planner/Quick Reaction Test Coordinator for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Joint Test and Evaluation (JTE&E), Joint Program Office (JPO) coordinating with JPO elements, Combatant Command(s)/Sponsor(s), and supporting agencies to resolve a joint warfighter critical operational need through data collection and management, analysis, test event scheduling and planning, testing and evaluation, reporting, and closedown activities for joint test.

Job Location: Suffolk, Virginia.

Type position: Full time/on-site.

Experience Required:

• 6 or more years of experience in test planning and execution in the DOD operational testing and evaluation environment.
• Applying the joint exercise process, the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC), and JT&E Program Handbook (or similar guide) to support joint warfighter test and evaluation requirements.
• Current expertise developing, refining, and maintaining test project schedules to include the planning and allocation of resources and identification of project tasks and milestones.
• Conducting research and coordination in order to draft, coordinate, and execute comprehensive program test plans.

Special Skills/Knowledge/Training Required/Desired:

• Expert knowledge observing and analyzing test and evaluation operations to ensure conformity with military doctrine, policies, and procedures.
• Expert knowledge developing and executing test concepts, test scenarios, test design, test products, and identifying candidate test venues and resource requirements for joint test and evaluation projects.
• Expert knowledge performing technical risk assessment, identifying test limitations, and assisting in developing risk mitigation strategies for JT&E project planning.

Security Clearance: possess an active DOD Top Secret Clearance and eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)

Education: Bachelor’s Degree, in a Technical field such as IT, ORSA, or Engineering.

Certifications: None.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Short Term Disability (SimIS provides Short-Term Disability benefits at no cost to you)

• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Holidays each year

• SimIS, Inc. is an AA / EOE / M / F / Disability / VET / Drug Free Employer

** The job description and experience listed are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities and skills required. Company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove responsibilities and assign other duties as necessary.**