QA Engineer

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

Job summary

Harris Computer seeks a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team in Missouri. Start with functional and regression testing, create test data, and report defects with evidence. Grow toward automation with support from a senior engineer and contribute to AI-assisted testing and WCAG accessibility checks.

The role emphasizes learning, methodical testing, and collaboration in an Agile/Scrum setting, with opportunities to own automation for a module over time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, information systems, engineering or related field.
• 1+ years of software testing experience, including internship or placement.
• Exposure to automated testing, professional, academic or self-taught.
• Familiar with SQL queries to validate data.
• Experience with at least one automation framework (Playwright, Selenium or Cypress).

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 identify coverage gaps.
• Support release testing and production verification.
• Create and maintain test data including edge cases.
• Validate results in the database using SQL where UI lacks detail.
• Run existing automated suites and triage failures.
• Author/extend automated tests with guidance from a senior engineer.
• Grow toward owning automation for an module.
• Review AI-generated artefacts against requirements before use.
• Run automated accessibility scans and record findings.
• Perform keyboard-only navigation and screen reader checks.
• Capture evidence to support conformance reporting.
• Raise defects with steps to reproduce and attach evidence.
• Assign severity and retest fixes against a build.
• Participate in sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Raise questions on requirements early.

Skills

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

SQL

Azure DevOps

Jira

Agile/Scrum

Education

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

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

SQL

Postman

axe-core

Lighthouse

NVDA

AI-assisted testing tools

Job description

Position Summary

We are 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute functional, integration and regression test cases against assigned products and record results with evidence.
• Write test cases from requirements and acceptance criteria. Tests must never be written from the application under test, because code-derived tests treat existing defects as correct behavior.
• 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.
• Reconcile data between systems on conversion and integration work.
• 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. The requirement decides what is correct, not the generated output.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

Education and Experience

• 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.

Technical Skills

• Working SQL, enough to query and validate data independently.
• Familiarity with at least one automation framework such as Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.
• Some programming exposure in TypeScript, JavaScript, C# or Python.
• Familiarity with source control or a work tracking tool such as Azure DevOps, Jira or Aha.
• Understanding of Agile and Scrum delivery.

Analytical Skills

• Attention to detail and the discipline to record results accurately.
• Willingness to say when something is unclear rather than guess the expected result.
• Clear written communication in defect reports and status updates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to API testing with Postman or similar.
• Exposure to accessibility testing or tools such as axe-core, Lighthouse or NVDA.
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing tools.
• Experience in payroll, finance, ERP or public sector software.

Success Metrics

• Test cases executed and recorded with complete evidence and no blank results.
• Defects raised that developers could reproduce without going back for more detail.
• Growing share of assigned regression executed through automation rather than by hand.
• Independent test data preparation within the first six months.

Salary range

Salary range: $70,000 - $80,000 USD per year