QA/Test Automation Engineer – Journeyman

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• 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 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 • Identify repeatable, stable, and high-value scenarios suitable for automation • Support automated test execution through approved build, test, or continuous-integration pipelines • Prepare representative test data while protecting sensitive information • Execute tests in Government-approved environments • Document test results and retain complete, repeatable, and auditable test evidence • Capture screenshots, logs, system responses, data comparisons, and other evidence demonstrating 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 • 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 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 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

🎯 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 • Preferred: recognized software-testing certification such as ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA, or equivalent • Preferred: experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs • Preferred: experience testing military accession processing, personnel processing, regulated workflows, or rules-intensive mission systems • Preferred: experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, or comparable technologies • Preferred: experience developing automated tests using Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another supported programming language • Preferred: experience testing web applications, APIs, databases, interfaces, batch processes, or event-driven services • Preferred: experience with requirements traceability matrices and test-management platforms • Preferred: experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Confluence, or comparable tools • Preferred: experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines • Preferred: familiarity with performance, security, accessibility, compatibility, or resilience testing • Preferred: familiarity with Section 508 accessibility testing and assistive-technology validation • Preferred: familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, configuration-management, and secure software-development practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment • Opportunity to work remotely • Chicago-area candidates preferred • Opportunity to support a USMEPCOM ENLIST government program • Participation in sprint demonstrations, capability reviews, operational validation, and stakeholder-feedback activities • Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections