Associate Quality Assurance Engineer

About Employee Navigator

Employee Navigator is a rapidly growing insurance & HR technology company that works with the nation’s leading insurance carriers, payroll companies & insurance brokers. Our products are designed to make it easier for our customers to manage the complexity of employee benefits & HR including benefits administration, onboarding & much more. Today, Employee Navigator offices in Bethesda, MD, Salt Lake City and Frederick, MD serve more than 50,000 businesses nationwide.

We’ve been named one of the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces eight years running. Come join us and help us continue the tradition as well as start new ones!

About the Role

QA Automation Engineers at Employee Navigator are responsible for building robust, high quality automated tests to continually expand automation coverage to speed up test cycles and ensure the most critical functions of the software continue to operate well. We’re seeking motivated recent graduates who are eager to start their careers in software engineering and QA automation. You should have a passion for learning, a collaborative mindset, and a desire to build high-quality software systems. You’ll work with a team of experienced engineers and have the opportunity to develop your skills in UI automation, CI/CD, test design, and more.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

• Collaborate with manual QA testers to understand manual test cases, how to automate them, and how to prioritize automation.
• Build robust, high quality automated tests by coding test scripts in Java using Selenium WebDriver to regularly monitor critical aspects of our software and speed up test cycles when releasing new features.
• Launch, monitor and debug test runs in IDE and CI tool.
• Learn our software, understand business needs and software testing techniques to advance your testing/coding skills and be able to apply best practices to come up with good automation approaches.
• Work in sync with other QA Automation Engineers to review test scripts and contribute to building the automation frameworks.
• Keep current with technology to support job functions and seek out feedback on design and code.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (required).
• Strong interest in software quality assurance and test automation.
• Coding experience with object-oriented programming (preferably Java or Python) through coursework, internships, or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of web technologies and experience with at least one testing framework (e.g., JUnit, TestNG, or similar) in a classroom or project setting.
• Familiarity with concepts of UI automation using tools like Selenium WebDriver is a plus.
• Willingness to learn how to write and maintain automated test scripts for web applications.
• Understanding of version control systems (e.g., Git or GitLab).
• Awareness of CI/CD practices and interest in learning to work with pipelines and test automation tools.
• Basic SQL knowledge and willingness to grow skills in querying and validating data.
• Interest in learning API testing (RESTAssured or similar tools) and mobile automation tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker is a bonus but not required.