Integration/Test Automation Engineer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek seeks an Integration/Test Automation Engineer to build and maintain automated regression, API, integration, and load tests for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. Remote with Chicago-area candidates preferred, you will drive test coverage and reproducible results throughout the software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with developers, integration engineers, cybersecurity, CI/CD, and government stakeholders to enhance regression coverage, validate interfaces, and deliver timely,

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.
• Minimum of ten years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, systems engineering, solution architecture, software architecture, or a related tech

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute, maintain, and improve automated software tests.
• Build automated regression suites covering critical application capabilities and mission workflows.
• Develop API tests that validate requests, responses, schemas, authentication, authorization, error handling, and business rules.
• Develop integration tests that validate interfaces, adapters, services, data exchanges, dependencies, and end-to-end processing.
• Develop load and performance tests to evaluate throughput, response time, concurrency, resource utilization, stability, and failure behavior.
• Translate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interface specifications, data mappings, and technical designs into automated test coverage.
• Maintain traceability among automated tests, requirements, interfaces, defects, and release content.
• Design and maintain representative test data for positive, negative, boundary, exception, and high-volume scenarios.
• Develop repeatable processes for test-data creation, setup, masking, refresh, reset, reconciliation, and cleanup.
• Protect sensitive data and use approved synthetic, masked, or controlled test data.
• Integrate automated tests into approved continuous-integration and continuous-delivery pipelines.
• Configure appropriate triggers, quality gates, result thresholds, notifications, and failure conditions.
• Ensure automated tests provide timely and actionable feedback to development, testing, integration, and operations teams.
• Maintain automated execution across development, integration, test, staging, and other approved environments.
• Improve test reliability by identifying and correcting unstable, inconsistent, environment-dependent, or non-deterministic tests.
• Produce complete and reproducible test results, logs, reports, metrics, and objective evidence.
• Document test configurations, dependencies, data conditions, execution procedures, expected results, and known limitations.
• Analyze failed tests and distinguish product defects from test-script, test-data, environment, configuration, or dependency issues.
• Create clear defect reports with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, evidence, and affected requirements.
• Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, correction verification, and regression testing.
• Coordinate with API and integration engineers to validate service contracts, mappings, schemas, data transformations, and interoperability.
• Coordinate with CI/CD engineers to improve automated execution, artifact retention, test reporting, and pipeline reliability.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to validate security corrections and integrate approved security testing where applicable.
• Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, release testing, and operational validation.
• Provide automation coverage, execution status, defect trends, performance results, and quality risks for release-readiness decisions.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Maintain test source code, scripts, configurations, data, and documentation in approved version-control repositories.
• Participate in peer reviews, code reviews, test reviews, and technical walkthroughs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of automation frameworks, test data, CI/CD integration, performance testing, and quality practices.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or a related field

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks an Integration/Test Automation Engineer to build and maintain automated regression, API, integration, and load tests for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role creates repeatable automated test coverage, maintains representative test data, integrates test execution with CI/CD pipelines, and produces reproducible results and objective verification evidence.

The Integration/Test Automation Engineer works with software developers, API and integration engineers, functional testers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, CI/CD engineers, operations teams, and Government stakeholders. The position helps identify defects earlier, improves regression coverage, validates interfaces and data exchanges, and provides reliable quality feedback throughout the software-development lifecycle.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Integration/Test Automation Engineer will:

• Design, develop, execute, maintain, and improve automated software tests.
• Build automated regression suites covering critical application capabilities and mission workflows.
• Develop API tests that validate requests, responses, schemas, authentication, authorization, error handling, and business rules.
• Develop integration tests that validate interfaces, adapters, services, data exchanges, dependencies, and end-to-end processing.
• Develop load and performance tests to evaluate throughput, response time, concurrency, resource utilization, stability, and failure behavior.
• Translate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interface specifications, data mappings, and technical designs into automated test coverage.
• Maintain traceability among automated tests, requirements, interfaces, defects, and release content.
• Design and maintain representative test data for positive, negative, boundary, exception, and high-volume scenarios.
• Develop repeatable processes for test-data creation, setup, masking, refresh, reset, reconciliation, and cleanup.
• Protect sensitive data and use approved synthetic, masked, or controlled test data.
• Integrate automated tests into approved continuous-integration and continuous-delivery pipelines.
• Configure appropriate triggers, quality gates, result thresholds, notifications, and failure conditions.
• Ensure automated tests provide timely and actionable feedback to development, testing, integration, and operations teams.
• Maintain automated execution across development, integration, test, staging, and other approved environments.
• Improve test reliability by identifying and correcting unstable, inconsistent, environment-dependent, or non-deterministic tests.
• Produce complete and reproducible test results, logs, reports, metrics, and objective evidence.
• Document test configurations, dependencies, data conditions, execution procedures, expected results, and known limitations.
• Analyze failed tests and distinguish product defects from test-script, test-data, environment, configuration, or dependency issues.
• Create clear defect reports with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, evidence, and affected requirements.
• Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, correction verification, and regression testing.
• Coordinate with API and integration engineers to validate service contracts, mappings, schemas, data transformations, and interoperability.
• Coordinate with CI/CD engineers to improve automated execution, artifact retention, test reporting, and pipeline reliability.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to validate security corrections and integrate approved security testing where applicable.
• Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, release testing, and operational validation.
• Provide automation coverage, execution status, defect trends, performance results, and quality risks for release-readiness decisions.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Maintain test source code, scripts, configurations, data, and documentation in approved version-control repositories.
• Participate in peer reviews, code reviews, test reviews, and technical walkthroughs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of automation frameworks, test data, CI/CD integration, performance testing, and quality practices.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.
• Minimum of ten years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, systems engineering, solution architecture, software architecture, or a related tech