Senior Test and Evaluation Engineer

Mclean, Virginia

Position overview

Info Gain Consulting (IGC) is seeking a Senior Test and Evaluation Engineer to provide objective technical assessment, integration analysis, and test-and-evaluation support for a portfolio of emerging mission technologies supporting a federal law-enforcement and intelligence customer. You will convert operational needs into testable criteria, support design and architecture reviews, develop scenarios and data-collection methods, coordinate authorized test events, analyze evidence, and document findings on performance, usability, scalability, interoperability, reliability, and operational suitability.
This position is the evidence engine of the technology-pilot portfolio and reports to the Technology Portfolio Lead. Objectivity and vendor neutrality are central: you will generate defensible evidence and recommendations, clearly separating observed fact from inference, while the Government makes all transition, acquisition, and operational decisions.

Key responsibilities

Develop and refine operational needs, use cases, technical and operational requirements, and evaluation questions for each pilot.
Translate mission needs into measurable, testable performance measures, success criteria, and evaluation methods.
Support system design reviews and architecture evaluations, identifying strengths, limitations, interfaces, standards, and data dependencies.
Support integration assessments with existing Government systems, infrastructure, data sources, and workflows.
Develop test plans, evaluation scenarios, test procedures, structured data-collection instruments, and analysis plans for Government review.
Coordinate and execute or support authorized test activities using consistent, repeatable procedures.
Validate data quality; document sources, assumptions, limitations, anomalies, and vendor-provided evidence; and preserve traceability.
Analyze performance, usability, scalability, interoperability, reliability, and operational suitability.
Maintain a defensible pilot evidence file and prepare test findings, integration-assessment inputs, and deployment-condition and transition recommendation inputs.

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, data science, operations research, applied mathematics, or a related technical field; four additional years of directly relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
At least 7 years in test and evaluation, technical assessment, systems integration, operational analysis, or engineering analysis.
Demonstrated experience developing testable requirements, performance measures, evaluation criteria, test plans, scenarios, and structured data-collection methods.
Demonstrated experience analyzing qualitative and quantitative evidence and documenting assumptions, limitations, and confidence.
Experience supporting system design reviews, architecture evaluations, interface analysis, or integration planning.
Ability to assess performance, usability, scalability, interoperability, reliability, and operational suitability in realistic environments.
Strong technical writing, data-presentation, briefing, and vendor-neutral analytical skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and appropriate data-analysis, requirements, or test-management tools.

Preferred qualifications

Experience supporting DHS, DoD, federal law enforcement, public safety, intelligence, or another operational test environment.
Experience in one or more relevant domains, such as vehicle sensing, computer vision, digital-media exploitation, RF sensing or geolocation, maritime systems, counter-surveillance, or AI-enabled analytics.
Experience with operational test and evaluation, independent verification and validation, or field experimentation.
INCOSE certification, DAU test-and-evaluation training, Certified Test and Evaluation Professional, or comparable credential.
Experience managing vendor-provided data and protecting objectivity in an acquisition-sensitive environment.

Work arrangement

This position reports to the Technology Portfolio Lead. On-site performance depends on completion of applicable Government suitability, credentialing, workstation, facility, and access requirements. Work arrangements remain subject to Government direction and final contract requirements. On-site participation may be driven by authorized test-event needs.

Security and access requirements

This position requires successful completion of applicable background investigation, suitability, fingerprinting, credentialing, training, nondisclosure, and access requirements. The employee must be able to obtain and maintain any required Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential and associated facility, system, and information access; comply with secure-facility restrictions; and properly safeguard Controlled Unclassified Information, personally identifiable information, sensitive personally identifiable information, and other protected information. Candidates must satisfy any citizenship, immigration-status, suitability, and access requirements applicable to the assigned facility, system, or information.

Role boundaries

The Test and Evaluation Engineer produces objective evidence, findings, and recommendations but does not determine acquisition, deployment, transition, operational, safety, or funding outcomes. The position coordinates vendors only as directed, does not accept vendor conclusions without validation, and may not alter findings to support a preferred outcome.

Contingency statement

This position is contingent upon contract award, funding, final staffing approval, successful completion of applicable suitability and credentialing requirements, and confirmation of the anticipated start date.

Equal employment opportunity

Info Gain Consulting, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. IGC provides equal employment opportunity without unlawful discrimination and provides reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.