Junior Test Engineer (VOR) at Hatch IT

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.