Test Engineer II (ITS16) Custom Computer Programming Services

ProSidian Consulting is a Management and Operations Consulting Services Firm that provides tailored solutions across various industries. They are seeking a Test Engineer II to support the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition with IT System Lifecycle Development and Management Support Services, including project management and technical services.

Responsibilities:

• Provide The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) IT System Lifecycle Development and Management Support Services on behalf of the Food and Drug Association (FDA)
• The FDA is seeking Small Business (SB) sources to determine the availability and capability of small business manufacturers or small businesses capable of IT System Lifecycle Development and Management Support Services
• The FDA | CFSAN is in need of project management services
• The Single Award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) will be awarded by the FDA contracting manager
• The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is the branch of the United States Food and Drug Administration that regulates food, dietary supplements, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products
• The scope of this contract is to provide the full range of technical and management services necessary to develop, maintain, and enhance CFSAN systems
• The general requirements include providing Custom Computer Programming Services (NAICS 541511) to the FDA and CFSAN; and to maintain, support, and evolve code, scripts, views, triggers, jobs, designs, documentation, reports, and templates
• There is also a need to establish an ordering vehicle that develops and maintains existing and future Computer to Plate (CTP) systems, which will process structured and unstructured data
• The FDA expects between 2-5 new applications/systems to be added to the BPA per year over the duration of this contract
• The ProSidian Engagement Team shall provide training services to CFSAN stakeholders for existing applications, application changes, or newly-developed applications
• CFSAN will issue individual Task Orders for the Contractor to provide IT Lifecycle Support for the CFSAN IT portfolio of systems as needed
• Task 1: Project Management: Task Order level project management to establish control, management, monitoring and notification mechanisms to ensure the individual task orders stay on track to meet the important milestones and performance measures within the awarded task
• Task 2: O&M and DME Architecture Support Services: The Contractor shall provide the full range of architecture support services in order to formulate the integrated, end-to-end automated systems that provide enhanced IT capabilities necessary to support CFSAN business and mission processes
• Task 3: Development, Modernization, and Major Enhancement: The Contractor shall provide the complete range of system development lifecycle support services necessary to develop and enhance CFSAN IT systems and tools as well as their external interfaces to FDA Enterprise and Center Systems and applications
• Task 4: Systems Integration and Engineering Services: The Contractor shall support CFSAN with integration services
• Task 5: Data Migration and Management Support: The Contractor shall provide data management support for activities related to the development and execution of data architectures, data policies, practices, and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of CFSAN
• Task 6: Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and Support Services: The Contractor shall provide the complete range of operations and maintenance support services necessary to maintain CFSAN IT systems
• Task 7: System and Data Disposition: The Contractor shall identify, recommend and implement the retirement and consolidation of systems, components, technologies, tools and data when they meet the appropriate disposition stage of the lifecycle as defined in the EPLC
• Task 8: Training Support for O&M and DME: The Contractor shall provide training services to CFSAN stakeholders for existing applications, application changes, or newly developed applications
• Task 9: Transition Activities: The Contractor shall provide the transition-in and transition-out of activities to develop, operate, and manage the CFSAN IT portfolio

Requirements:

• Expertise and experience in designing, developing, implementing, communicating, administering and evaluating human resources programs, with emphasis in compensation and classification in large (i.e., over 4,000 employees) geographically dispersed organizations with a technical, multi-faceted mission of national scope
• Demonstrated successful experience in designing and implementing innovative private and public sector compensation and pay for performance programs, and/or expertise in a unionized environment
• Experience in job analysis and evaluation, with expertise in making accurate Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemption determinations, and demonstrated ability to successfully defend those decisions to employees, management, and/or outside parties
• Expertise in state-of-the art compensation, pay for performance, and awards programs, with the ability to tailor such programs to a public-sector regulatory/operational organization
• Knowledge of existing laws and regulations pertaining to the federal compensation, classification, performance, and recognition programs, and to the federal financial regulatory agencies
• Evaluate, recommend and implement test tools and strategies in various technical environments
• Experience in performance testing, system testing, 508 testing, end user testing, and regression testing
• Write and modifies test scripts
• Reports test results