Junior QA Engineer: Grow Into Automation

Harris Computer; Maryland; On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Computer in Maryland is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team and grow into automation.

The role begins with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, and builds toward authoring automated tests with support from a senior engineer.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in CS/IS/Engineering.
• 1+ years of software testing experience, including internship.
• Exposure to automated testing in any form.

Responsibilities

• Execute functional, integration and regression test cases and record results with evidence.
• Write test cases from requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain regression suite and flag coverage gaps.
• Support release testing and production verification.
• Create and maintain test data to trigger validation and error paths.
• Validate results in the database using SQL when UI is incomplete.
• Run existing automated suites and triage failures.
• Author and extend automated tests with senior engineer support.
• Grow toward owning automation for an assigned module.
• Use AI tools and prompts to draft test cases and automation.
• Review AI artefacts against requirements before use.
• Run automated accessibility scans and record findings.
• Carry out keyboard-only and screen reader checks.
• Capture evidence for conformance reporting.
• Raise defects with steps to reproduce and attach evidence.
• Assign severity and retest fixes against a named build.
• Participate in sprint planning and defect triage.

Skills

Attention to detail

Willingness to learn

Clear written communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Harris Computer in Maryland is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team and grow into automation.

The role begins with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, and builds toward authoring automated tests with support from a senior engineer.

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