Junior Software Tester

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

About the role

Two Six Technologies is looking to add a Junior Software Tester to our team building a next-generation global-scale networking situational awareness and command and control platform. In this role, you would be responsible for helping to develop and maintain manual functional/user-acceptance tests to assess software product development. You will work closely with the development and field operations teams to evaluate new and existing features, as well as identify and examine defects. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in our Arlington, VA or Herndon, VA office.

Responsibilities

• Performs manual software product testing through web-based applications and supporting tools and investigates possible causes of problems.
• Develops and executes functional, end-to-end, regression, and user-acceptance tests in manual test environments.
• Assists with developing and maintaining test cases, test procedures, and test documentation.
• Detects, reproduces, troubleshoots, and documents software defects and feature requests with clear steps to reproduce and expected versus actual results.
• Works closely with developers and other members of the testing team to investigate defects and determine appropriate resolutions.
• Uses browser developer tools, logs, command-line utilities, and other diagnostic tools to investigate application behavior.
• Participates in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Learns and applies basic scripting concepts using languages such as JavaScript, Python, or Bash to support testing and troubleshooting activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of experience with Atlassian products
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of IT systems, networking, and problem solving
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility

Skills

• Experience with testing applications involving maps, geospatial data, or geospatial libraries such as OpenLayers or CesiumJS (nice to have)
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as Cucumber/Gherkin or similar BDD tools (nice to have)
• Military or commercial networking experience (nice to have)
• Familiarity with networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, or common network troubleshooting tools (nice to have)
• Familiarity with Selenium (nice to have)
• Familiarity with programming in Java TestNG and Maven (nice to have)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Tuition assistance and professional development

Pay

Salary Range: $70,000 - $95,000 USD (annualized). This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. The specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.