QA Engineer

Help every release earn users' confidence. As a QA Engineer at Varada Defense, you'll turn requirements into practical tests and clear quality evidence. Working with developers, analysts, and delivery teams, you'll find issues, verify fixes, and show whether software is ready for its intended use.

You'll think like the person who has to rely on the software, and test that way too. It's a chance to explore how software behaves, solve problems alongside developers, and help a team that treats quality as everyone's job.

Apply to be considered for future QA Engineer opportunities with our team.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans, test cases, test data, and expected results based on requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing across software applications and interfaces.
• Document reproducible defects and work with developers to investigate issues, confirm fixes, and prevent recurrence.
• Maintain test coverage and traceability to requirements, documenting gaps and unresolved issues.
• Contribute to automated tests and repeatable testing workflows where they improve coverage and efficiency.
• Summarize test results and communicate quality risks to support release and customer acceptance decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Experience testing software applications and documenting test results.
• Understanding of software testing methods, defect lifecycles, and the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to develop meaningful test scenarios, test data, and expected outcomes from requirements.
• Ability to investigate failures and document reproduction steps, environment details, and supporting evidence.
• Understanding of how software components, interfaces, and data flows interact.
• Experience using defect-tracking or test-management tools and communicating findings to technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing automated tests using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable frameworks.
• Experience testing APIs with Postman or comparable tools.
• Familiarity with SQL, data validation, or scripting to support testing and troubleshooting.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD workflows or supporting performance, accessibility, or security testing.
• Experience supporting defense, government, or software deployed in secure or disconnected environments.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid employee premiums for base health plans.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 4% of salary and full vesting from day one.
• 160+ hours of annual PTO and 11 paid holidays.
• Company-paid LinkedIn Learning and up to $1,500 annually for training and certification reimbursement.

About Varada Defense

Varada Defense delivers mission platforms that make existing systems interoperable, automate infrastructure deployment, continuously modernize software, and turn operational data into decision advantage. Our team brings together veterans, operators, engineers, and strategists to advance U.S. and allied missions from enterprise to tactical edge.

Additional Information

Location, work arrangement, travel, and security clearance requirements will vary by opportunity and will be communicated when a specific position is discussed.

Submit your resume to be considered for future QA Engineer opportunities.

Varada Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.