QA Test Engineer at Grid Networks in Reston, VA

About Us:

Grid Networks, LLC is a world-class telecommunications consulting firm supporting clients with product development, business operations, network maintenance, and supply chain services. At Grid, we develop products and services to meet customer needs with a focus on mobile connectivity, backbone networking, and IoT solutions, leveraging expertise in 3GPP 5G/4G/LTE/3G and VSAT communications technologies.

About the Role:

We're hiring a QA/Test Engineer to own quality across a diverse product portfolio spanning hosted web services, telecom services, and embedded/IoT devices. You'll set test strategy, run manual and exploratory testing, maintain automated suites, and provide feedback on quality and release viability for a variety of different products.

What you’ll do:

• Own end-to-end test strategy (unit → E2E, manual + automated) across multiple web products, with risk-based prioritization for critical flows: auth, encryption, real-time data, device management.

• Author and maintain test plans, test cases, and defect reports

• Provide go/no-go release recommendations backed by execution records.

• Execute manual, regression, and exploratory testing across desktop, mobile browsers, and physical devices (including cellular- and VPN-connected hardware).

• Extend and maintain Cypress E2E suites,including WebSocket/real-time, async state, token refresh, and boundary-value flows,and integrate them into CI/CD.

• Write scripts supporting test tooling and automation infrastructure.

• Verify accessibility to ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance

• Validate upgrade paths, persisted-data compatibility, and offline/reconnect behavior.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field

• 3+ years' experience in a dedicated QA or Test Engineering role supporting release of production web apps.

• Hands-on Cypress skills; able to read and write JavaScript/TypeScript well enough to author, debug, and maintain automated tests.

• Comfortable reading JavaScript/TypeScript with React to diagnose test failures.

• Strong test-case design fundamentals and risk-based prioritization.

• Track and manager defects with JIRA, GitLab Issues, or equivalent; experience integrating tests into CI/CD.

• Fluent with browser DevTools (Network, Console, WebSocket, storage), as well as REST/JSON/HTTP, Git, and Postman or curl.

• Understand network fundamentals (IP, subnets, gateways, VPNs) and have experience testing network-connected or embedded devices in a lab setting.

• Write scripts in Python or Bash to support test tooling.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Formal test management tool (TestRail, qTest, Xray, Zephyr).

• Real-time / pub-sub testing (WebSocket, WAMP, MQTT).

• Cryptographic or security-sensitive features: key lifecycle, E2E encryption, IndexedDB integrity, secrets hygiene.

• Unit/component frameworks (Vitest); accessibility tooling (axe, Lighthouse); performance testing of long-lived sessions.

• Map-based, geospatial, or IoT telemetry UI; cellular systems exposure.

• Docker-based test environments, GitLab CI/CD.

• ISTQB Foundation or equivalent.

GRID Networks is committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at GRID Networks are based on an individual’s capabilities and qualifications. All qualified applicants and employees receive consideration for employment, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.