QA Engineer

Role Overview

• Analyze and understand business, product, infrastructure, and technical requirements to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify risks, and ensure acceptance criteria are testable and automatable.
• Define testing strategies and approaches that align with DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Identify testing scope, objectives, resources, timelines, and deliverables for automated and manual testing efforts.
• Design, develop, and maintain well-structured, reusable, and maintainable automated test cases and frameworks.
• Create and manage automated test scripts and test suites within Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar platforms.
• Execute and maintain automated and manual tests, including functional, regression, performance, usability, and security testing.
• Initiate and monitor automated test runs, analyze results, and validate test coverage for assigned scrum teams.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects and inconsistencies, partnering closely with developers to troubleshoot issues and validate fixes.
• Develop a strong understanding of user story sizing, test planning, and test coverage within Agile and Scrum workflows.
• Maintain clear and detailed documentation of test plans, test cases, automation frameworks, and regression testing results.
• Prepare and communicate test results, regression reports, and quality metrics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Actively contribute to the automation roadmap by identifying opportunities to increase automation coverage and improve testing efficiency.
• Recommend and implement process, tooling, and framework improvements to enhance the effectiveness, scalability, and reliability of the QA practice.
• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and best practices in test automation, quality engineering, and secure software development.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software quality assurance experience, including 2+ years in test automation
• Proficiency with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., TestComplete, Playwright)
• Solid programming skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps
• Solid understanding of software testing fundamentals, automated testing strategies, quality engineering principles, and test design best practices
• Proven technical foundation including SQL, database concepts, APIs, web-based applications, and networking fundamentals
• Experience building, and maintaining automated test frameworks, tools, and reusable test components
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience in large-scale or multi-platform environments is a plus
• Proficiency working in Agile/Scrum environments preferred.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Java
• JavaScript
• Python
• SQL