Test Engineer at Centuria – Scott AFB, Illinois

Job Title: Test Engineer

Location: Scott AFB, IL

Program: HQ CCC

Clearance: Secret

Company/ Program Description:

Centuria, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), has been delivering IT, Engineering, and Scientific solutions to the Federal Government since 2002. During our two decades of service we have earned the trust and respect of our government clients for the simple reason that we have great people who are experts in their fields and take pride and ownership in everything they do.

The Washington Post has recognized Centuria Corporation as one of the top workplaces in the DC Metro area for 2024. This award celebrates nationally recognized companies that make the world a better place to work together by prioritizing a people-centered culture and giving employees a voice. The Top Workplaces USA award is based entirely on feedback from an employee engagement survey completed by the employees of participating workplaces. Centuria is honored to have been awarded this distinction.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assess software products for supportability, operability, compatibility and security to ensure the software products present a low risk to the AFNet and SIPRNet and placement on the AF Evaluated Products List (AF EPL). The evaluation shall consist of but is not limited to the below.
• Review AF customer certification requests via the Application Request Worksheet (ARW). Review ARW for completeness to include software documentation and add each new request into the AF EPL SharePoint site. The review shall include items of functionality, supportability, operability, compatibility, and security.
• Provide feedback to the AF customer and assist customers throughout the software certification process using the AF EPL SharePoint site.
• Review the software product installation documentation. Ready the test environment for software product installation on the latest AF Standard Desktop Configuration, DoD Server Core Configuration, web or mobile hosting environment.
• Perform the software product installation and conduct assessment tests that shall at a minimum include supportability, operability, compatibility and security of the installed software product. Conduct assessment tests in the C2Net Test Environment or other networking environments. Analyze results and present findings in a Certification Memo that identifies any found vulnerabilities and any possible mitigation. Should the software product have any identified immitigable vulnerabilities, coordinate with the software product sponsor to determine if the vendor has a possible mitigation.
• Provide the Certification Memo and test results to HQ CCC for submission to the AF Security Control Assessor for certification and inclusion in the AF EPL. Use the AF EPL SharePoint site to monitor and update the status of each certification request through each phase of the software certification process and provide metrics to HQ CCC.
• Elevate unresolvable course-of-action mitigation to HQ CCC government representatives for resolution.

Job Requirements:

• Must be local to Scott AFB.
• 3+ years of technical experience as a client support technician, help desk specialist, system administrator, software test evaluator, or other related activity.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification. (Security +).