[Hiring] Test & Evaluation Lead @DecisionPoint | Cortek

Role Description

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, evidence management, defect prevention, and release validation.

Qualifications

• 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 leading software test strategy and test-planning activities.
• Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability and test-coverage reporting.
• Experience defining, collecting, reviewing, and maintaining objective verification evidence.
• Experience planning, coordinating, and evaluating release testing.
• Experience developing or aligning testing activities with a Test and Evaluation Master Plan or comparable governing test plan.
• Experience leading defect triage, correction verification, and release-risk assessment.
• Ability to evaluate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interfaces, and designs for completeness and testability.
• Ability to coordinate functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing across multiple teams and environments.
• Ability to communicate test status, quality risks, coverage gaps, unresolved defects, and release recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or another Government-approved certification satisfying the required IAT Level II qualification and applicable current DoD 8140 work-role requirements.
• Strong leadership, analytical, risk-assessment, facilitation, technical documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Government representatives, mission stakeholders, analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, testers, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• ISTQB Advanced Level Test Management certification.
• Additional advanced software-testing, quality-management, or test-automation certifications.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development, modernization, or test and evaluation programs.
• Experience leading testing for mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability systems.
• Experience testing military accession processing, personnel processing, or other complex rules-driven workflows.
• Experience developing or maintaining a TEMP, Requirements Traceability Matrix, test plan, test report, or comparable Government test artifact.
• Experience leading Government user acceptance testing, operational validation, or formal release-acceptance activities.
• Experience with test-management and defect-tracking platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, or comparable tools.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, service virtualization, or test-data management.
• Experience with API, interface, database, accessibility, performance, security, resilience, or migration testing.
• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility testing and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, risk-based testing, configuration management, and secure software-development practices.
• Experience mentoring test engineers or leading a multi-team testing function.