QA Engineer

Job description

QA Engineer What You’ll Be Doing Breaking stuff — before our customers do. Our software helps operators track satellites, schedule antennas, send commands, and manage spacecraft in orbit. Quality at Quindar means more than checking whether a button works. It means understanding how customers operate missions, finding the unexpected ways workflows can fail, and making sure our software behaves predictably when it matters. You should be comfortable digging into complex software to understand how different parts of the system interact — whether that means testing an API, inspecting logs, validating data, reproducing an intermittent issue, or walking through an end-to-end mission workflow. We expect you to use AI tools and agents to accelerate investigations and automate repetitive validation while still bringing the curiosity and judgment that great QA requires. In this role, you will: - Own functional, integration, and exploratory testing for new features and evolving product workflows, while contributing to regression coverage for existing functionality - Develop and maintain clear test plans, test cases, and regression suites based on product requirements and real customer workflows - Test mission-critical workflows including contact planning, collision avoidance, task automation, and incident management - Identify, reproduce, document, and track defects through resolution - Test APIs and backend workflows in addition to user-facing functionality - Embed closely with product managers and engineers throughout feature development to understand intended behavior, identify edge cases and ambiguous requirements early, and shape the testing approach before features are ready to ship - Use logs, observability tools, browser developer tools, and other technical resources to investigate unexpected behavior - Use automation and AI-assisted tools where they improve testing depth, repeatability, or efficiency without losing the judgment that comes from thoughtful testing Qualifications Technical Skills - Strong experience with manual software testing, including functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing - Experience translating product requirements and user workflows into structured test plans and test cases - Experience using test management platforms such as Rally, Zephyr, TestRail, Xray, or similar to organize test cases, track execution, and maintain test coverage - Strong defect investigation and documentation skills, including the ability to reliably reproduce issues and communicate clear steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior - Experience testing web applications and complex user workflows - Experience testing REST APIs using tools such as Postman, Insomnia, curl, or similar - Familiarity with browser developer tools, application logs, and basic troubleshooting techniques - Familiarity with Git and modern software development workflows What Makes You Stand Out - You are naturally curious and enjoy figuring out how things break - You have strong attention to detail and notice subtle inconsistencies, edge cases, and unexpected behavior that others may overlook - You can approach an unfamiliar feature from the perspective of a real user rather than simply verifying that it matches a specification - You write bug reports that engineers actually like receiving: concise, reproducible, and backed by useful evidence - You communicate clearly and work well across product and engineering - You are organized and methodical without becoming dependent on rigid processes - You take ownership of quality and are willing to raise concerns when something does not feel ready to ship - You use AI and modern tooling thoughtfully to expand what you can test, investigate issues faster, and reduce repetitive work Background - 2+ years of experience in software quality assurance or a related role - Experience testing complex production software systems - Active U.S. Security Clearance preferred but not required ITAR REQUIREMENTS: To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here. Why you'll love working at Quindar - We work in a cutting-edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions! - We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays. - Mental health is just as important as physical, so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits. - Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees. - We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching. - Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City. - Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!