QA/Test Automation Engineer (Senior)

DecisionPoint Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a QA/Test Automation Engineer to validate complex accession-processing workflows, business rules, integrations, and exception paths for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role develops traceable functional test cases and test data, conducts exploratory and regression testing, supports automated test coverage, and documents objective evidence of software quality.

The role works with Government stakeholders, requirements analysts, developers, cybersecurity

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher required.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE or related field.
• At least eight years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience performing functional software testing.
• Experience validating complex workflows, business rules, decision logic, integrations, or exception paths.
• Experience developing and maintaining test cases, test data, expected results, and traceability.
• Experience documenting test execution results and retaining objective evidence.
• Experience identifying, documenting, tracking, and verifying software defects.
• Experience conducting exploratory and regression testing.
• Ability to support development, execution, or maintenance of automated regression tests.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and designs to determine testing needs.
• Develop risk-based test plans, scenarios, cases, scripts, data, and expected results.
• Validate complex workflows, decision logic, data relationships, and integrations.
• Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements and risks.
• Maintain traceability among requirements, test results, defects, and releases.
• Conduct functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop and improve automated regression tests where appropriate.
• Identify high-value test scenarios suitable for automation.
• Support integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Prepare test data while protecting sensitive information.
• Validate data processing, calculations, and error-handling logic.
• Execute tests in development, integration, test, staging, or Gov-approved environments.
• Document test execution results with screenshots, logs, and evidence.
• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution.
• Write clear defect reports with steps, results, severity, and affected requirements.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce issues and clarify expected behavior.
• Verify corrected defects and perform targeted regression testing.
• Support defect-triage meetings and communicate quality risks.
• Prepare test status, metrics, and release-readiness recommendations.
• Support Government user acceptance testing with cases/data and coordination.
• Assist Government users during acceptance testing and distinguish defects from training issues.
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to test strategy, automation coverage, and quality practices.
• Mentor other testers and share knowledge on workflows and testing techniques.

Skills

Active security clearance

Test planning

Functional testing

Automation testing

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or related field

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Cucumber

Postman

REST Assured

JMeter

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a QA/Test Automation Engineer to validate complex accession-processing workflows, business rules, integrations, and exception paths for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role develops traceable functional test cases and test data, conducts exploratory and regression testing, supports automated test coverage, and documents objective evidence of software quality.

The QA/Test Automation Engineer works with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, requirements analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and other testers. The position also supports Government user acceptance testing, defect triage, correction verification, sprint demonstrations, and release-readiness decisions.

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 QA/Test Automation Engineer will:

• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, interface requirements, and technical designs to determine testing needs.
• Develop and maintain risk-based test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data, and expected results.
• Validate complex accession-processing workflows, decision logic, business rules, data relationships, integrations, and exception paths.
• Ensure functional test cases are traceable to approved requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and identified risks.
• Maintain traceability among requirements, test cases, test results, defects, corrections, and release decisions.
• Conduct functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop, execute, maintain, and improve automated regression tests where appropriate.
• Identify stable and high-value test scenarios suitable for automation.
• Support the integration of automated tests into approved build, continuous-integration, or delivery pipelines.
• Prepare and manage representative test data while protecting sensitive information.
• Verify data processing, calculations, field validation, role-based behavior, interfaces, and error-handling logic.
• Execute tests in development, integration, test, staging, or other Government-approved environments.
• Document test execution results and retain complete, repeatable, and auditable test evidence.
• Capture screenshots, logs, data comparisons, system responses, and other objective evidence needed to demonstrate test outcomes.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution.
• Write clear defect reports containing reproducible steps, expected results, actual results, severity, evidence, and affected requirements.
• Collaborate with developers and technical teams to reproduce issues, analyze root causes, and clarify expected behavior.
• Verify corrected defects and perform targeted regression testing to identify unintended impacts.
• Support defect-triage meetings and communicate quality risks, unresolved defects, and release impacts.
• Prepare test status, defect metrics, coverage information, evidence summaries, and release-readiness recommendations.
• Support Government user acceptance testing by preparing test cases and data, coordinating execution, documenting results, and tracking findings.
• Assist Government users during acceptance testing and distinguish defects from training, configuration, data, or requirements issues.
• Support sprint demonstrations, capability reviews, operational validation, and stakeholder-feedback activities.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to verify approved security corrections and related regression impacts.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of test strategy, automation coverage, defect prevention, evidence management, and quality practices.
• Mentor other testers and share knowledge of complex workflows, business rules, test techniques, and automation practices.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must possess all the following:

• An active Secret clearance or higher.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
• At least eight years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience performing functional software testing.
• Experience validating complex workflows, business rules, decision logic, integrations, or exception paths.
• Experience developing and maintaining test cases, test data, expected results, and traceability.
• Experience documenting test execution results and retaining objective test evidence.
• Experience identifying, documenting, tracking, and verifying software defects.
• Experience conducting exploratory and regression testing.
• Ability to support the development, execution, or maintenance of automated regression tests.
• Ability to analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to determine test coverage.
• Ability to support Government or customer user acceptance testing.
• Ability to communicate test results, quality risks, unresolved defects, and release impacts clearly.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, testers, and Government stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred:

• A recognized software-testing certification, such as an ISTQB certification, Certified Software Tester (CSTE), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), or an equivalent credential.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.
• Experience testing military accession processing, personnel processing, regulated workflows, or other rules-intensive mission systems.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, or comparable technologies.
• Experience developing automated tests using Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another supported programming language.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, databases, system interfaces, batch processes, or event-driven services.
• Experience with requirements traceability matrices and test-management platforms.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Confluence, or comparable testing and collaboration tools.
• Experience integrating automated tests with continuous-integration and continuous-delivery pipelines.
• Experience with performance, security, accessibility, compatibility, or resilience testing.
• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility testing and assistive-technology validation.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, configuration-management, and secure software-development practices.
• Experience mentoring testers or providing technical leadership for testing activities.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Aff… DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

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