QA Engineer II

• Collaborating closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, and DevOps teams to ensure high product quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Analyse requirements, identify quality risks, and define validation scope.
• Automation Testing, test case creation and maintenance.
• Design and execute functional, API, integration, regression, exploratory, and end-to end testing.
• Develop and maintain UI automation using Selenium or Playwright and API automation using Rest Assured.
• Validating REST APIs, backend services, and integrations using API testing tools
• Perform service-level testing independent of the user interface and support API contract validation where applicable.
• Utilize dependency mappings and impact matrices to identify affected services, integrations, and validation scope.
• Execute smoke, sanity, deployment, and release validation testing.
• Support application setup, deployment validation, and environment verification using Docker-based environments.
• Integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines and improve automation reliability and maintainability.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, tests, defects, and execution results.
• Participate in defect triage, risk reviews, release readiness, and sign-off activities.
• Follow established quality engineering standards and contribute improvement ideas to increase testing effectiveness and release confidence.

Required Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience in manual testing of web applications and enterprise software
• Strong experience with UI, Functional, Regression, Integration, and End-to-End testing
• Experience in API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools
• Hands-on experience with test automation using Selenium WebDriver or Playwright, or similar automation frameworks
• Good programming/scripting knowledge in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python for automation development
• Experience with defect management tools such as JIRA
• Experience using version control systems such as Git
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of backend data validation
  • Understanding of cloud-based applications and microservices architecture