Test & Evaluation Lead – Senior

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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

• 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 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 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 the Requirements Traceability Matrix and 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 • Coordinate testing across development, integration, test, staging, and Government-approved environments • Ensure test environments, configurations, interfaces, accounts, data, tools, and dependencies are ready for execution • Define standards for test execution records and objective verification evidence • 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 • Oversee verification of defect corrections and targeted regression testing • Identify systemic quality trends, recurring defects, coverage gaps, and process weaknesses; recommend corrective actions • Coordinate release testing and establish release-specific scope, readiness criteria, schedules, and reporting • Provide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations to program and Government leadership • Support Government user acceptance testing • 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 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 • Collaborate with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, requirements analysts, architects, software developers, QA engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, trainers, and operations teams

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

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment • Active Secret clearance or higher requirement associated with a federal government role • Opportunity to support the USMEPCOM ENLIST program and federal/Department of Defense mission • Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action protections • Resume consideration for this position and other comparable positions through subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners