This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. This position is located in Warren, Michigan, and is within the Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC-SEC).

Duties

Serve as the Software Engineering Center (SEC) Subject Matter Expert (SME) and technical lead for Software Automated Testing. Work under the guidance of Software Engineering Center (SEC) Technical Experts to lead and modernize embedded software testing for military ground vehicles. Leverage cloud technologies to automate current manual testing processes. Design and implement reusable common test code for multiple projects. Separate low-level functional test software from high-level tests scripts via well-defined Application Program Interfaces (APIs). Design and implement test scripts on a per-project basis. Design and implement strategies for cataloging tests and organizing test results. Determine best practices for the use of containers and Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines to improve testing efficiency. Determine best practices for the use of testing tools and languages (e.g., Eggplant, Cucumber, Gherkin, and pytest). Investigate ways to automate generated tests from written requirements, and/or well-defined interfaces. Maximize test coverage using formal methods and/or artificial intelligence. Lead in the development of new and improved tools for Agile testing of embedded systems. Lead and facilitate the structuring and linking of existing requirements to test cases. Lead and facilitate the translation of Digital Engineering requirements/models into executable tests.

Requirements

• A three year probationary period will be required in accordance with Lab Demo policy.
• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• This position may require up to 20% of temporary duty (TDY) travel.
• This position is a TERM position not to exceed four (4) years. This TERM position may be extended to a maximum of four year increments. This position will not be made permanent.
• This is an Army Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT and L) Workforce position. The employee must meet DODI 5000.66 requirements applicable to the duties of the position.
• Practitioner Career Certification must be met within 60 months (5 years) of employment.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GSVC) is participating in an alternative personnel system known as the Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project. The DB-03 (CAT II) pay band is equivalent to the GS-12 step 1 to GS-14 step 10 level. In order to qualify, you must meet the education, and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirement for Engineering (0801,0806,0830,0850,0854,0855,0858,0893 series): A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR; B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Basic Requirement for Physical Scientist (1301 Series): A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR; B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to one of the majors, as shown in A above, that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Requirement for Physicist (1310 Series): A. A degree (bachelor's or higher) in physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. The courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. OR; B. A combination of education and experience-education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours. The courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. Basic Requirement for Chemist (1320 Series): A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in the physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics. OR; B. Combination of Education and Experience: Course work equivalent to a major in the physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering, including at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Requirement for Computer Scientist (1550 Series): A bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 SH must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Education

In addition to meeting ONE of the Basic Requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

Specialized Experience: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02, higher-end of the Pay Band equivalent to GS-11 grade level, in the Federal service which includes: (1) Demonstrated leadership skills to lead or direct a test development team; (2) Generalized experience in the development, integration, and testing of software for military vehicles and supporting equipment; (3) Generalized experience in software testing tools, frameworks, and cloud computing; (4) Demonstrated familiarity with architectural patterns and middleware approaches (e.g. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model-View-Controller (MVC), Data Distribution Service (DDS), Review of Systems (ROS)); and (5) Demonstrated knowledge of software interfaces including Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), network/bus protocols, and data communication standards.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service DB-02 (equivalent to a GS-05 through GS-11). Pay Band DB-03 (Category II) is equivalent to a GS-12 through GS-14 grade level.

***NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED even if you are a current federal employee.***

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.If using education to qualify for this job, TRANSCRIPTS WILL BE REQUIRED, even if you are a current federal employee.

Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html .

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Post-secondary students being considered for initial appointments to positions leading to target positions with positive education requirements should be enrolled in directly-related degree programs in order to meet the OPM qualification requirements for the target position upon completion of their academic program.

Contacts

• Address FN-W4GHAA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Warren, MI 48397 US
• Name: Kevin Bell
• Phone: 586-282-7941
• Email: [email protected]