Junior QA Engineer: Grow into Automation

Harris Computer

Colorado

On-site

USD 70,000 - 80,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Harris Computer Colorado is seeking a junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team and grow into automation. You will start with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, and build toward authoring automated tests with support from a senior engineer.

The role emphasizes methodical problem solving and detailed analysis, with a path to owning automation for an assigned module.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or 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 against assigned products and record results 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.
Author and extend automated tests in the existing framework with support from a senior engineer.
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.