Remote QA Engineer: Manual & Automation (Junior)

Groupe Kardol; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Training & Development

Stock Option Plan

Job summary

Ace IT Careers is recruiting candidates for Junior QA Engineer opportunities involving both manual software testing and test automation. This position is suitable for candidates with foundational QA knowledge and a strong interest in developing practical skills across the complete software-testing lifecycle.

Selected candidates may work on functional testing, defect management, API validation, database testing, regression testing, and automation activities based on project requirements.

Qualifications

• Zero to two years of QA/ software-testing related experience or internship.
• Basic understanding of manual testing, SDLC, STLC, and defect management.
• Familiarity with test cases, test scenarios, regression testing, and bug reporting.
• Exposure to Jira, Azure DevOps, Postman, SQL, Selenium, Java, Python or similar tools is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Review business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Create and execute manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Identify, document, and track software defects.
• Validate application data using basic SQL queries.
• Test REST APIs using Postman or similar tools.
• Assist with Selenium-based automated test scripts.
• Learn and apply automation concepts such as locators, waits, assertions, and page-object models.
• Participate in Agile meetings, defect discussions, and release-testing activities.
• Maintain testing documentation, execution results, and defect evidence.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and other QA team members.

Skills

JIRA usage

SQL querying

Postman

Selenium basics

Java

Python

Test execution

Agile awareness

Tools

Azure DevOps

REST APIs

Selenium WebDriver

Job description

Ace IT Careers is recruiting candidates for Junior QA Engineer opportunities involving both manual software testing and test automation. This position is suitable for candidates with foundational QA knowledge and a strong interest in developing practical skills across the complete software-testing lifecycle.

Selected candidates may work on functional testing, defect management, API validation, database testing, regression testing, and automation activities based on project requirements.