Junior QA Engineer: Grow Into Automation

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

Job summary

Harris Computer in New Jersey is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join the 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

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

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 and validate results using SQL.
• 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 approved AI tools to draft test cases and automation.
• Review AI artefacts against requirements before use.
• Run automated accessibility scans and record findings.
• Carry out keyboard-only navigation and screen reader checks.
• Capture evidence for conformance reporting and defect reproduction.
• Assign severity and retest fixes against a named build.
• Participate in sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Raise questions on requirements early.

Skills

SQL

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Azure DevOps

Jira

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Aha

Job description

Harris Computer in New Jersey is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join the 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.