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Test Engineer I - ProSidian Consulting, LLC
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Entry‑level Test Engineer supporting FDA CFSAN IT system development and lifecycle management, focusing on project coordination, software testing, and compliance with regulatory standards.
About the role
- 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. Representative tasks to be performed.
THE BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT IS DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING (9) TASK AREAS:
- 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. | DOCUMENTATION: The Contractor shall use FDA supplied templates which will be provided on each individual Task Order as applicable. If an FDA template does not exist, the Contractor may be tasked with drafting a template for approval by the COR.
- 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. The goal is a stable evolutionary progression from an organization’s current state to its envisioned future state by identifying tools and technologies that work together to satisfy the needs or changing busin