Test & Evaluation Lead (Senior) at Careers Decisionpointcorp, Chicago, IL
Test & Evaluation Lead (Senior) at Careers Decisionpointcorp in Chicago, IL. Full-time. Apply with swipeandhired.
Test & Evaluation Lead (Senior)
ID
2026-4261
Job Locations
US-IL-Chicago
Category
Information Technology
Type
Regular Full-Time
Overview
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
The Test & Evaluation Lead will:
- 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. <span data-ccp-props="{}" style="margin: 0px