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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.\nThe 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.\nThis position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.\nNote: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nThe Test & Evaluation Lead will:\nDevelop, maintain, and govern the program’s software test and evaluation strategy. \nAlign testing activities, artifacts, schedules, and evidence with the approved Test and Evaluation Master Plan and related Government requirements. \nDefine test objectives, scope, levels, methods, environments, entry and exit criteria, roles, responsibilities, and reporting expectations. \nDevelop risk-based testing approaches for mission workflows, business rules, interfaces, data exchanges, security 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environments, configurations, interfaces, accounts, data, tools, and dependencies are ready for planned execution. \nDefine standards for test execution records and objective verification evidence. \nEnsure evidence is complete, repeatable, traceable, securely maintained, and suitable for Government review. \nReview test results, execution evidence, coverage information, unresolved risks, and release impacts. \nLead defect-triage meetings and coordinate severity, priority, ownership, disposition, correction, retesting, and closure decisions. \nEnsure defect records contain clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, evidence, affected requirements, and release impacts. \nOversee verification of defect corrections and targeted regression testing. \nIdentify systemic quality trends, recurring defects, coverage gaps, and process weaknesses and recommend corrective actions. \nCoordinate release testing and establish release-specific test scope, readiness criteria, schedules, and reporting. \nProvide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations to program and Government leadership. \nIdentify unresolved defects, incomplete coverage, environmental limitations, or residual risks that could affect release decisions. \nSupport Government user acceptance testing by coordinating participants, test cases, data, schedules, evidence, findings, and corrective actions. \nCoordinate testing for urgent security fixes, production defects, modernization changes, interfaces, and migration activities. \nWork with cybersecurity personnel to validate approved security remediation and assess regression impacts. \nCoordinate with CI/CD engineers to integrate appropriate automated tests and quality gates into delivery pipelines. \nEstablish and report test metrics covering execution progress, requirements coverage, defect trends, correction rates, automation, and release quality. \nPrepare test status reports, quality assessments, decision briefings, release recommendations, and Government-required test artifacts. \nSupport sprint planning, demonstrations, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and program-governance activities. \nMentor QA and testing personnel and promote consistent test methods, evidence standards, and defect-management practices. \nLead continuous improvement of testing, automation, traceability, evidence management, defect prevention, and release validation. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nCandidates must possess all the following:\nAn active Secret clearance or higher. \nA bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category. \nAt least eight years of relevant professional experience. \nExperience leading software test strategy and test-planning activities. \nExperience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability and test-coverage reporting. \nExperience defining, collecting, reviewing, and maintaining objective verification evidence. \nExperience planning, coordinating, and evaluating release testing. \nExperience developing or aligning testing activities with a Test and Evaluation Master Plan or comparable governing test plan. \nExperience leading defect triage, correction verification, and release-risk assessment. \nAbility to evaluate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interfaces, and designs for completeness and testability. \nAbility to coordinate functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing across multiple teams and environments. \nAbility to communicate test status, quality risks, coverage gaps, unresolved defects, and release recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders. \nCompTIA Security+ CE or another Government-approved certification satisfying the required IAT Level II qualification and applicable current DoD 8140 work-role requirements. \nStrong leadership, analytical, risk-assessment, facilitation, technical documentation, and communication skills. \nAbility to collaborate effectively with Government representatives, mission stakeholders, analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, testers, and operations teams. \nPreferred Qualifications\nThe following qualifications are preferred:\nISTQB Advanced Level Test Management certification. \nAdditional advanced software-testing, quality-management, or test-automation certifications. \nExperience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development, modernization, or test and evaluation programs. \nExperience leading testing for mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability systems. \nExperience testing military accession processing, personnel processing, or other complex rules-driven workflows. \nExperience developing or maintaining a TEMP, Requirements Traceability Matrix, test plan, test report, or comparable Government test artifact. \nExperience leading Government user 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It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.\n Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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