Junior QA Engineer: Grow Into Automation & Testing

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

Job summary

Harris Computer in United States is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join the 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 underneath, and aims to build an engineering career in quality rather than only executing scripts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree 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 and document results with evidence.
• Write test cases from requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain the regression suite and flag coverage gaps.
• Support release testing and production verification.
• Create and maintain test data and validate results in the database via SQL.
• Run existing automated suites and triage failures.
• Author and extend automated tests with support from a senior engineer.
• Grow toward owning automation for an assigned module.
• Review AI-generated artefacts against requirements before use.
• Run automated accessibility scans and record findings.
• Capture evidence to support conformance reporting.
• Raise defects with steps to reproduce and attach evidence.
• Participate in sprint planning and defect triage.

Skills

SQL queries

Attention to detail

Agile/Scrum

Written communication

Education

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

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Job description

Harris Computer in United States is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join the 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 underneath, and aims to build an engineering career in quality rather than only executing scripts.