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# Junior Software QA Engineer

- **Company:** Clear Ballot Group
- **Location:** Nashua, NH, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $70,734.0 - $85,186.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Confluence, JIRA, Unix, MySQL, Requirements Traceability, Software Requirements Analysis, Hardware Testing, Backend, Bug Reporting
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6de5c8fab692018f

## About the Role

Qualified candidates will have demonstrated the following skills and experience, or the aptitude to develop them:

 * 1-2 years of experience in manual testing.

 * Able to work in-office 4 days per week (this role tests on physical hardware in the QA lab).

 * Solid writing skills, including the ability to document test cases that will be used by third-party organizations.

 * Fluent English communication (written and verbal).

 * Experience writing manual test cases, bug reports, and how-to articles.

 * Passion for finding bugs and tricky edge cases, a problem-solver's mentality, and a desire to take ownership of product quality.

Nice to Have

 * Experience with Jira.

 * Exposure to testing software within a hardware environment.

 * Experience with Unix platforms, MySQL, and backend logs.

## Description

As a Junior QA Engineer, you'll work with the QA team to test voting software on voting machines and on consumer-off-the-

shelf (CoTS) hardware. We have many complex integrations to test. You'll also write documentation - a lot of it: test cases,

confluence articles, and supporting documents for certification. This is NOT a remote position. Four days a week in the

Nashua, NH office is required.

Key Responsibilities

 * Perform manual testing on voting hardware and plan and write test cases in Jira's Requirements Traceability Matrix

(RTM).

 * Communicate bugs, issues, enhancement requests, and complaints to the rest of the team and document them in Jira.

 * Collaborate with other teams including Engineering, Design, Training, and Services.

 * Perform CoTS hardware testing and configuration.

 * Validate technical documentation to ensure conformance to system requirement specifications and applicable regulations.

 * As part of a small team, creatively fill needs as they are identified.

 * Be available for on-site or remote support to jurisdictions on Election Day.


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