QA/Test Automation Engineer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek•Chicago, IL

20h•Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks a QA/Test Automation Engineer to validate accession-processing workflows, business rules, integrations, and exception paths for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role prepares traceable functional test cases and test data, conducts exploratory and regression testing, supports automated test coverage, and documents objective evidence of software quality. The engineer works with requirements analysts, developers, senior testers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, mission stakeholders, and Government users. The position supports defect identification and verification, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and release-readiness activities. The position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. By applying, candidates acknowledge and consent to having their resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance or higher.
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 six 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 executing functional test cases and test data.
Experience conducting exploratory and regression testing.
Experience documenting test results and retaining objective test evidence.
Experience identifying, documenting, tracking, and verifying software defects.
Ability to maintain traceability among requirements, test cases, test results, defects, and corrections.
Ability to develop, execute, maintain, or support 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.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, organizational, and communication skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively with analysts, developers, senior testers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and Government stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

A recognized software-testing certification, such as ISTQB, 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.
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, interfaces, batch processes, or event-driven services.
Experience with requirements traceability matrices and test-management platforms.
Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Confluence, or comparable testing and collaboration tools.
Experience integrating automated tests with continuous-integration and continuous-delivery pipelines.
Familiarity 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.

Responsibilities

Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, and technical documentation to determine testing needs.
Develop and maintain functional test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data, and expected results.
Validate accession-processing workflows, business rules, calculations, decision logic, integrations, data relationships, and exception paths.
Ensure 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 outcomes.
Conduct functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing.
Develop, execute, maintain, or improve automated regression tests where appropriate.
Identify repeatable, stable, and high-value test scenarios suitable for automation.
Support execution of automated tests through approved build, test, or continuous-integration pipelines.
Prepare representative test data while protecting sensitive information.
Execute tests in development, integration, test, staging, or other Government-approved environments.
Document test results and retain complete, repeatable, and auditable test evidence.
Capture screenshots, logs, system responses, data comparisons, and other evidence needed to demonstrate test outcomes.
Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution.
Prepare defect reports with reproducible steps, expected results, actual results, severity, evidence, and affected requirements.
Collaborate with developers and senior testers to reproduce issues, clarify expected behavior, and support root-cause analysis.
Verify defect corrections and perform targeted regression testing to identify unintended impacts.
Participate in defect-triage meetings and communicate testing progress, unresolved issues, and quality concerns.
Support Government user acceptance testing by preparing test cases and data, assisting users, documenting results, and tracking findings.
Distinguish potential defects from training, configuration, data, environment, or requirements issues.
Support sprint demonstrations, capability reviews, operational validation, and stakeholder-feedback activities.
Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to verify approved security corrections and associated regression impacts.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Maintain test artifacts, defect records, evidence, status information, and quality metrics in approved tools and repositories.
Contribute to continuous improvement of test coverage, automation, defect prevention, evidence management, and quality practices.