Quality Engineer II

VCS HR; Freehold (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Visual Computer Solutions is seeking an experienced QA Engineer (SDET) to join our small engineering team as the second QA hire. You will perform manual testing and lead test-case management while building UI and API automation from the ground up.

You will own testing across web, mobile, API, and data workflows, learn HR/workforce-management domains, and work with developers to prevent defects early. This role emphasizes independent initiative and quality advocacy.

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing across web, mobile, API, and data workflows.
• Experience learning complex HR/payroll/business rules domain.

Responsibilities

• Own testing for features and releases: plan coverage, prepare data, maintain cases in Jira/Xray, execute tests.
• Perform manual, exploratory, regression, integration, and release testing across web/mobile/API/data workflows.
• Investigate customer issues, document reproducible defects, verify fixes with developers.

Skills

Manual testing

Exploratory testing

Test planning

Defect tracking

Software development fundamentals

Quality advocacy

Education

Software development education or training

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Appium

Jira/Xray

API testing libraries

Job description

VCS-HR develops workforce-management software for public-safety agencies, municipalities, and private-sector employers. Our products support complex scheduling, time and attendance, payroll, training, compliance, and workforce operations.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on QA engineer with software development skills (SDET) to join our small engineering team as our second QA hire. You will share responsibility for manual testing and test-case management while building UI and API test automation from the ground up. Success means learning complex business rules, finding meaningful defects, and steadily expanding reliable automated coverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Own testing for assigned features and releases: plan coverage, prepare test data, maintain cases in Jira/Xray or a similar tool, execute tests, and communicate results and risks.
• Perform thorough manual, exploratory, regression, integration, and release testing across web, mobile, API, and data workflows, including permissions, error handling, and edge cases.
• Learn HR and workforce-management workflows; investigate customer issues, document reproducible defects, and work with developers to verify fixes and prevent recurrence.
• Build and maintain reusable UI and API automated tests, starting with high-risk workflows and expanding coverage over time. Investigate failures and keep tests dependable.
• Participate in backlog planning and requirements discussions; clarify acceptance criteria early and help developers consider testability and quality before coding begins.
• Balance day-to-day manual testing with automation improvements, take initiative, and follow work through to completion.

Required Experience and Skills

• Proven hands-on software testing experience, with strong manual and exploratory testing skills and a record of learning a complex business domain such as HR, payroll, fintech, or a comparable industry.
• Experience managing the software testing lifecycle, including test planning, case management, execution, defect tracking, regression coverage, and reporting.
• Software development education, training, or practical experience, with object-oriented programming fundamentals and the ability to write, debug, and maintain test code.
• Experience building code-based UI and API test automation using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, and supporting API testing libraries.
• A self-starter who works independently, communicates clearly, advocates for quality, and helps the broader engineering team prevent defects earlier.

Preferred Experience

• TypeScript, React.js applications, C#/.NET, or VB.NET; familiarity with Node.js and SQL Server is helpful.
• Using AI tools to generate or expand automated tests, with careful review of correctness and coverage.
• Connecting automated tests to the build and code-review process so changes receive fast, repeatable checks.
• Mobile automation, performance testing, or testing sensitive employee and payroll data.

Employment Status

This position remains full-time and at-will, consistent with Company policy and New Jersey law.

Visual Computer Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.