QA Engineer- ReadyAPI

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks ensuring continuous measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation API lifecycle management and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.

SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers testers and software engineers across 32000 organizations including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe JetBlue and Microsoft. SmartBears best-loved brands include Swagger TestComplete Reflect QMetry Zephyr and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at or follow us on LinkedIn X and Reddit.

At SmartBear you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers driving go to market strategies supporting operations building products or enabling teams your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.

QA Engineer ReadyAPI

• Build and shape development practices on a tangible industry a leading API development product.
• Play a critical role in technical implementation customer usage models and the development of test plans and test suites.
• Tech stack: JavaScript HTTP REST Websockets GraphQL SOAP gRPC Apache Kafka Git Docker

Product intro

ReadyAPI allows teams to create manage and execute automated functional security and performance tests in one centralized interface.

With ReadyAPI development teams around the world (e.g. NASA FedEx ...) can test API types like REST SOAP Apache Kafka MQTT. Record live API traffic or virtualizing web services to remove pipeline dependencies. Finally integrates with GIT JIRA Slack Jenkins and many more development tools.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about ReadyAPI

You can even have a free trial to check it out

About the role

As a QA Engineer you will work with acceptance testing regression testing test automation and overall providing the highest quality experience to users.

• Identify business requirements and work closely with the product owner developers to find solutions providing feedback and ensuring they are fit for purpose
• Write acceptance criteria for requirements
• Perform manual testing (exploratory and non-functional) and log results
• Review results of automated tests and log defects
• Performance stress test
• Identify maintain and drive bespoke test automation solutions
• Monitor and measure test coverage to improve test scenarios
• Provide feedback/input on the techniques solutions and tools used throughout projects

We are looking for you if you have:

• Experience with JavaScript for test automation tools and frameworks such as SoapUI ReadyAPI or other API testing tools Cypress
• BDD approach to software development
• Experience in test automation within an Agile environment
• A risk-based approach to testing
• Non-functional aspects of web application testing such as UI Accessibility Security and Performance
• Experience in following would be a big plus: MQTT JIRA OAuth2 JMS Jenkins AWS

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work collaborate and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences viewpoints and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland Bath UK Wroclaw Poland and Bangalore India.
• Weve won major industry(product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award Content Marketing Association IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit qualifications and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex national origin age gender disability veteran status sexual orientation or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart open driven accountable and curious.