Rune Technologies

Rune Technologies

Quality Assurance Engineer

Rosslyn, VA · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
TypeScriptReactGitKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsAccessibilityLogisticsInventory ManagementCypressPlaywrightTest AutomationManual TestingAccessibility TestingCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • You'll join us in our mission to bring 21st-century software to the sustainment domain-modernizing inventory management, transportation optimization, and predictive maintenance with state-of-the-art user experiences.
  • You'll work closely with software engineers, product leaders, Mission Managers, and TechOps to ensure every release of TyrOS meets the quality standards our customers depend on in operational environments.
  • This is Rune's first dedicated Quality Assurance role.

Responsibilities

  • Own quality across the TyrOS software development lifecycle, ensuring new features meet our quality standards before reaching production.
  • Build, maintain, and expand our Playwright end-to-end test suite covering critical user workflows across TyrOS.
  • Design automated tests that reduce manual regression testing and improve engineering velocity over time.
  • Perform non-functional testing including performance validation, accessibility testing, data integrity verification, and basic load testing.
  • Partner with software engineers during feature planning to review acceptance criteria, identify testing strategies, and determine which automated checks should block releases.
  • Collaborate with Mission Managers and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to validate customer-specific deployments, upgrade paths, and operational workflows.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) experience supporting modern web applications.
  • Hands-on experience with Playwright or a comparable end-to-end testing framework such as Cypress or Selenium.
  • Strong understanding of regression testing methodologies and release validation.
  • Ability to work independently and establish processes in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Experience working in defense technology, government software, or other highly regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes-based deployment environments.
  • Experience performing accessibility, performance, and load testing.
  • Experience validating APIs and backend services.
  • Experience building and maintaining automated testing suites.
  • Comfortable reading application code to understand changes and validate testing coverage. Familiarity with Go and/or TypeScript/React is a strong plus.
  • Excellent written communication skills, including bug reports, test documentation, and QA metrics.
  • Strong collaboration skills with engineers and cross-functional partners throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Desired Qualifications

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Go and/or TypeScript/React is a strong plus.

Skills

  • The U.S. military and its allies face a real logistics modernization problem.

Compensation

  • Highly competitive equity grants are also included in the majority of full time offers and are considered part of Rune's total compensation package.

Benefits

  • Rune offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees to include a full suite of insurance options at no cost for employees and low-cost to spouses and dependents.
  • Highly competitive equity grants are also included in the majority of full time offers and are considered part of Rune's total compensation package.
  • Benefits include:
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Basic life insurance and disability 100% covered for all employees by Rune
  • option to purchase additional life insurance available
  • 'Take the time off that you need, when you need it' paid time off, not accrual based
  • Generous company holiday calendar including a holiday shutdown in December
  • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave
  • Full 401(k) retirement plan for all full-time eligible employees
  • Company-funded commuter benefits
  • Comfortable reading application code to understand changes and validate testing coverage.
  • Free access to on-site gym at office

This listing is sourced directly from Rune Technologies's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.