QA Engineer I: Grow Into Automation & Testing

Harris Computer Corp.; South Carolina; On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Computer in South Carolina is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team. The role starts with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, with growth toward authoring automated tests.

You will work under a senior engineer, apply SQL to validate data, perform accessibility checks, and participate in sprint planning. This is an ideal path for building an engineering career in quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Engineering or related field.
• 1+ years of software testing experience, including internship.
• Exposure to automated testing (professional, academic or self-taught).
• Comfort with writing and executing test cases from requirements.

Responsibilities

• Execute functional, integration and regression test cases and record 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, including records that trigger validation and error paths.
• Validate data in the database using SQL where UI does not show full picture.
• Run existing automated suites, triage failures and report whether the cause is the product or the test.
• Author and extend automated tests 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 findings.
• Carry out keyboard-only navigation checks and screen reader checks after paired training.
• Capture evidence needed to support conformance reporting.
• Raise defects and document steps to reproduce; name the control, state expected vs. what happened, attach evidence.
• Assign severity and retest fixes against a named build.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement and defect triage.
• Raise questions on requirements early.

Skills

SQL

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python/C#

Azure DevOps/Jira/Aha

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Azure DevOps

Jira

Aha

Job description

Harris Computer in South Carolina is seeking a Junior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team. The role starts with functional and regression testing, test data preparation and defect reporting, with growth toward authoring automated tests.

You will work under a senior engineer, apply SQL to validate data, perform accessibility checks, and participate in sprint planning. This is an ideal path for building an engineering career in quality.