Performs functional, integration, regression, release, accessibility, and database validation testing. Writes test cases, prepares test data, reports and retests defects, triages automated test failures, and progressively develops automated tests with senior guidance. Participates in Agile ceremonies and uses SQL, automation frameworks, and approved AI tools. The role is expected to grow toward independent automation ownership and test data preparation.
Quality Assurance Engineer
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
Functional and Regression Testing
- 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.
Test Data and Backend Validation
- 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.
Test Automation
- 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.
AI-Assisted Testing
- 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.
Accessibility
- 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.
Defect Management
- 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.
Collaboration
- 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: $70,000 - $80,000 USD per year.
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