QA/Test Automation Engineer (Journeyman)
DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc.2 years ago
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, and technical documentation to determine test coverage.
- Develop and maintain functional test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data, expected results, and requirements traceability.
- Conduct functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing of workflows, integrations, decision logic, and exception paths.
- Develop, execute, maintain, and improve automated regression tests and support their execution through approved build, test, and continuous-integration pipelines.
- Execute testing in Government-approved environments and document complete, repeatable, auditable test evidence including screenshots, logs, system responses, and data comparisons.
- Identify, document, prioritize, track, reproduce, and verify software defects through resolution.
- Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, sprint demonstrations, capability reviews, operational validation, release readiness, and Government user acceptance testing.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to verify approved security corrections and related regression impacts.
- Maintain test artifacts, defect records, quality metrics, status information, and traceability across approved tools and repositories.
- Contribute to improvements in test coverage, automation, defect prevention, evidence management, and quality practices.
Requirements
- Active Secret clearance or higher is required.
- 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 is required.
- Professional experience performing functional software testing and validating complex workflows, business rules, decision logic, integrations, or exception paths.
- Experience developing and executing functional test cases and test data, conducting exploratory and regression testing, documenting objective test evidence, and tracking and verifying software defects.
- Ability to maintain traceability among requirements, test cases, test results, defects, corrections, and release outcomes.
- Ability to develop, execute, maintain, or support automated regression tests and analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to determine test coverage.
- Ability to support Government or customer user acceptance testing and collaborate with analysts, developers, senior testers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and Government stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, organizational, and communication skills.
- Preferred: recognized software-testing certification such as ISTQB, Certified Software Tester (CSTE), or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA).
- Preferred: federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization experience, including military accession processing, personnel processing, regulated workflows, or rules-intensive mission systems.
- Preferred: experience with automation tools, programming languages, web applications, APIs, databases, interfaces, batch processes, event-driven services, requirements traceability matrices, test-management platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred: familiarity with performance, security, accessibility, compatibility, resilience, Section 508, assistive-technology, Agile, DevSecOps, configuration-management, and secure software-development practices.
Benefits
- Remote position; Chicago-area candidates are preferred.
- Applicants authorize DecisionPoint to share their resumes and included personal information with subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners for consideration for this and comparable positions.
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About DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc.
DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise mobility and edge technology integration for large organizations, combining its IntelliTrack asset and inventory platform with managed services such as device lifecycle management, RFID, and help desk support. The company sells hardware, software, and implementation/support services to enterprises in supply chain, retail, and government. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, it operates across the U.S. and Canada and is privately held.