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# QA Hardware Test Engineer

- **Company:** Paul May & Associates
- **Location:** Saint Charles, MO, United States
- **Salary:** $70,000.0 - $90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Software Applications, Capability Maturity Model Integration, Test Case, Data Logging, Hardware Testing
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usc608ee920b07369fd951f6230032194b

## About the Role

Has done software testing before, in a real job, on real products

 - Has tested physical products / instruments (preferred over software-only applications)
 - Comfortable picking up a device, plugging it in, running it through its paces against a spec
 - Has worked in a small team or has assisted a QA lead - understands what structured testing looks like without needing to run it yet
 - Exposure to test planning, test case documentation, defect logging
 - Curious about automation without being a zealot about it
Mindset:

 - Genuinely likes QA - this is a career path for them, not a fallback
 - Human curiosity is the core skill: the ability to think like a user or a customer and find what engineers don't find
 - Practical, not theoretical - not trying to build a CMMI Level 3 program on day one
 - Comfortable in ambiguity - there is no playbook yet
 - Wants to be part of building something, not just executing against an established process

## Description

Lives reasonably close to the St. Charles / west St. Louis metro area

 - Collaborative, low-ego
WHAT DOES NOT FIT

 - Pure hardware test / validation engineers - there's an engineer for that
 - QA Managers who want to write test plans and organize processes to manage in a team are the the one. There is no team.
 - Automation specialists who lead with tooling and frameworks - the team isn't there yet
 - Candidates who have only tested software applications that don't have a physical component unless there is a compelling draw.
Company relocation - At this time, client will NOT relocate for this role
Company sponsorship - At this time, client will NOT sponsor for this role


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