QA/Test Automation Engineer (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek•Chicago, IL

20h•Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks a senior QA/Test Automation Engineer to validate complex accession-processing workflows, business rules, integrations, and exception paths for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The 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 engineer collaborates with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, requirements analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and other testers. The role also supports Government user acceptance testing, defect triage and correction verification, sprint demonstrations, and release-readiness decisions. 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 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 clearly communicate test results, quality risks, unresolved defects, and release impacts.
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.

Nice To Haves

Recognized software-testing certification, such as ISTQB, Certified Software Tester (CSTE), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), or equivalent.
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.

Responsibilities

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, high-value scenarios for automation.
Support 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, auditable test evidence, including screenshots, logs, data comparisons, and system responses.
Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution; write defect reports with reproducible steps, expected and 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 conduct 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, tracking findings, and assisting Government users.
Distinguish defects from training, configuration, data, or requirements issues during acceptance testing.
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.