Junior Test Engineer (VOR)

hatch I.T.Washington, District of ColumbiaHybridFull-timeJunior, 1–2 yearsListed 1 day ago

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About this role

Responsibilities:

- Test VOR’s web interfaces, APIs, and workflows, including how users connect data sources, configure tools and agents, and review workflow results.

- Explore real user scenarios, edge cases, and failure conditions to find issues beyond documented acceptance criteria.

- Work with developers and product owners to clarify expected behavior and identify quality risks early.

- Document defects with clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, and useful evidence such as screenshots, logs, or API responses.

- Use approved AI tools to help explore test scenarios, generate test data, draft automation, and investigate failures. Review and verify their output.

- Build and maintain automated tests with guidance from experienced engineers, prioritizing repeatable checks that protect important user journeys.

- Help evaluate AI-enabled features for grounded responses, useful citations, appropriate tool behavior, and consistent handling of uncertainty.

- Test permissions, data boundaries, approval steps, and error recovery to help ensure workflows behave appropriately.

- Investigate failed tests, distinguish product defects from test or environment issues, and verify fixes.

- Contribute clear testing evidence and communicate remaining risks to support release decisions.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields and 1 year of professional experience.

- 2+ years of foundational experience with software testing or development through employment, internships, coursework, or personal projects.

- Basic understanding of functional, regression, and exploratory testing.

- Ability to translate a user goal or requirement into meaningful test scenarios, including unexpected inputs and failure cases.

- Willingness to learn scripting and test automation using languages such as Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.

- Openness to using AI tools thoughtfully, checking their work, and improving your approach through experimentation.

- Strong analytical skills and the persistence to investigate an issue when the cause is unclear.

- Ability to explain findings clearly and collaborate constructively with others.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Exposure to browser automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.

- Experience testing APIs with tools such as Postman, curl, or automated test frameworks.

- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and reading application logs.

- Basic knowledge of SQL, data validation, or testing data ingestion and retrieval.

- Experience using AI coding assistants or testing applications that incorporate language models.

- Exposure to containers, cloud environments, or enterprise software.

- Eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance.