About this role
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScript
Salary context
-45%
below median
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