Test & Evaluation Lead (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek is seeking a Test & Evaluation Lead to own the test strategy, TEMP alignment, requirements coverage, verification evidence, defect triage, and release testing for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role sets the overall testing approach and ensures mission requirements, interfaces, security corrections, and workflows receive appropriate verification before release.

The role collaborates with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, requirements analysts,

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and govern the program's software test and evaluation strategy.
• Align testing activities with the approved TEMP and Government requirements.
• Define test objectives, scope, levels, and criteria for entry/exit.
• Establish traceability among requirements, test cases, data, results, defects, and releases.
• Lead defect-triage meetings, coordinate severity/priority/ownership and disposition.
• Coordinate release testing and provide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations.
• Support Government user acceptance testing and provide test artifacts.
• Coordinate testing across development, integration, test, staging, and Government-approved environments.

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Test & Evaluation Lead to own the test strategy, Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) alignment, requirements coverage, verification evidence, defect triage, and release testing for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role establishes the overall testing approach and ensures that mission requirements, business rules, interfaces, security corrections, and operational workflows receive appropriate verification before release.

The Test & Evaluation Lead works with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, requirements analysts, architects, software developers, QA engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, trainers, and operations teams. The position coordinates test planning and execution, maintains traceability and objective evidence, leads defect triage, supports Government user acceptance testing, and provides quality and release-readiness recommendations.

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

• Develop, maintain, and govern the program's software test and evaluation strategy.
• Align testing activities, artifacts, schedules, and evidence with the approved Test and Evaluation Master Plan and related Government requirements.
• Define test objectives, scope, levels, methods, environments, entry and exit criteria, roles, responsibilities, and reporting expectations.
• Develop risk-based testing approaches for mission workflows, business rules, interfaces, data exchanges, security corrections, and operational capabilities.
• Ensure complete and appropriate test coverage across requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interfaces, risks, and release content.
• Establish and maintain traceability among requirements, test cases, test data, test results, defects, corrections, and release decisions.
• Oversee development of the Requirements Traceability Matrix and related test-coverage reporting.
• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interface specifications, and technical designs for clarity, completeness, consistency, and testability.
• Coordinate preparation of test plans, scenarios, cases, scripts, data, expected results, and execution schedules.
• Guide functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, security, accessibility, performance, and user acceptance testing as applicable.
• Coordinate testing across development, integration, test, staging, and other Government-approved environments.
• Ensure test environments, configurations, interfaces, accounts, data, tools, and dependencies are ready for planned execution.
• Define standards for test execution records and objective verification evidence.
• Ensure evidence is complete, repeatable, traceable, securely maintained, and suitable for Government review.
• Review test results, execution evidence, coverage information, unresolved risks, and release impacts.
• Lead defect-triage meetings and coordinate severity, priority, ownership, disposition, correction, retesting, and closure decisions.
• Ensure defect records contain clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, evidence, affected requirements, and release impacts.
• Oversee verification of defect corrections and targeted regression testing.
• Identify systemic quality trends, recurring defects, coverage gaps, and process weaknesses and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate release testing and establish release-specific test scope, readiness criteria, schedules, and reporting.
• Provide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations to program and Government leadership.
• Identify unresolved defects, incomplete coverage, environmental limitations, or residual risks that could affect release decisions.
• Support Government user acceptance testing by coordinating participants, test cases, data, schedules, evidence, findings, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate testing for urgent security fixes, production defects, modernization changes, interfaces, and migration activities.
• Work with cybersecurity personnel to validate approved security remediation and assess regression impacts.
• Coordinate with CI/CD engineers to integrate appropriate automated tests and quality gates into delivery pipelines.
• Establish and report test metrics covering execution progress, requirements coverage, defect trends, correction rates, automation, and release quality.
• Prepare test status reports, quality assessments, decision briefings, release recommendations, and Government-required test artifacts.
• Support sprint planning, demonstrations, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and program-governance activities.
• Mentor QA and testing personnel and promote consistent test methods, evidence standards, and defect-management practices.
• Lead continuous improvement of testing, automation, traceability,