Junior QA Engineer: Grow into Automation

Capital Computer Associates, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital Computer Associates, Inc. is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team and grow into automation. The role starts with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, and progresses toward authoring automated tests with support from a senior engineer.

The ideal candidate is methodical, curious about how the system works, and eager to build an engineering career in quality rather than only executing scripts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 1+ years of software testing experience, including internship or placement experience.
• Exposure to automated testing, whether professional, academic or self-taught.

Responsibilities

• Execute functional, integration and regression test cases with evidence.
• Write test cases from requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain the regression suite for an assigned product and flag coverage gaps.
• Support release testing and production verification.
• Create and maintain test data, including records that trigger validation and error paths.
• Validate results in the database using SQL where the user interface does not show the full picture.
• Run existing automated suites, triage failures and report whether the cause is the product or the test.
• Grow toward owning automation for an assigned module.
• Use approved AI tools and team prompts to draft test cases and automation.
• Review every AI-generated artefact against the requirement before it is used.
• Run automated accessibility scans against WCAG 2.1 Level AA and record the findings.
• Carry out keyboard-only navigation checks, and screen reader checks after paired training.
• Capture the evidence needed to support conformance reporting.
• Raise defects and document steps to reproduce; name the control, state what was expected, state what happened, and attach the evidence.
• Assign severity using the agreed definitions and retest fixes against a named build.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement and defect triage.
• Raise questions on requirements early.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Clear written communication

Willingness to ask questions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

TypeScript

JavaScript

C#

Python

Azure DevOps

Jira

Aha

Job description

Capital Computer Associates, Inc. is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team and grow into automation. The role starts with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, and progresses toward authoring automated tests with support from a senior engineer.

The ideal candidate is methodical, curious about how the system works, and eager to build an engineering career in quality rather than only executing scripts.