Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

: Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

About Us

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Planning: Analyze product requirements, user stories, and technical design documents to create comprehensive test plans, test cases, and traceability matrices.
• Automation Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for UI (Web) and backend APIs from scratch.
• Manual Testing: Execute manual testing (exploratory, functional, regression, sanity, and integration testing) for complex edge cases and scenarios that are difficult or inefficient to automate.
• API Testing: Thoroughly test RESTful APIs and microservices (built in .NET/Python) using tools like Postman, Swagger, or code-based API frameworks.
• Defect Management: Identify, isolate, document, and track bugs using issue-tracking systems (e.g., Jira). Work closely with developers to reproduce and resolve defects.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to enable continuous testing and faster release cycles.
• Database Testing: Write SQL queries to validate data integrity, verify backend processing, and ensure database updates match frontend inputs.
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor junior QA team members, establish QA best practices, and drive a culture of quality across the engineering team.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 5 to 7 years of proven experience in Software Quality Assurance, with a strong balance of both manual and automated testing.
• Automation Frameworks: Strong expertise in modern UI automation tools (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium) and test runners.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in writing test scripts using JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Python (aligning with our Angular/.NET/Python tech stack).
• API Testing Tools: Hands-on experience with API testing tools like Postman, SoapUI, or REST Assured.
• Manual Testing Expertise: Deep understanding of software testing methodologies, test design techniques, and the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Databases: Solid understanding of relational databases and the ability to write intermediate to advanced SQL queries for backend validation.
• Agile/Scrum: Extensive experience working in Agile environments and actively participating in sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives.

Preferred/Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Performance and Load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and containerization (Docker).
• Experience testing accessibility (WCAG) and cross-browser compatibility.
• Familiarity with behavior-driven development (BDD) frameworks like Cucumber or SpecFlow.
• Understanding of mobile application testing (Appium) is a plus.