QA Engineer
Job Summary
About the Role
We are looking for a quality-driven Engineer Tester to join our engineering team. You will ensure the reliability performance and correctness of cloud-native services that process large volumes of data to deliver fast accurate results. You will design and accomplish both functional and non-functional testing strategies working with developers and product owners to understand the product and identify quality risks.
This is an excellent opportunity for a testing professional who is passionate about automation performance engineering and building quality into every stage of the development lifecycle.
What Youll Do
- Design & Implement comprehensive test strategies covering functional regression integration and end-to-end testing for microservices-based systems
- Performance & Load Testing design and implement performance test suites using Gatling and Locust to validate system behavior under high-throughput high-concurrency conditions
- Automate build automated test frameworks using Python and PyTest ensuring high coverage and fast feedback loops
- Understand the Product learn functional domain knowledge to independently create meaningful well-targeted test cases that go beyond surface-level validation
- Non-Functional Testing contribute to scalability reliability soak and stress testing to ensure services meet production-grade Service level agreements
- API Testing validate RESTful APIs for correctness error handling data integrity and contract compliance
- Debug & Investigate trace test failures across distributed services and cloud infrastructure; collaborate with developers on root cause analysis
- Collaborate work with developers product owners and teams to define acceptance criteria identify edge cases and shift quality left
- CI/CD Integration integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines for quality validation
- Report & Communicate produce clear test reports defect analyses and quality metrics; flag risks early and advocate for quality across the team
- Document maintain test plans test cases and testing documentation to ensure traceability and knowledge sharing
- Reporting - You will report to an Engineering Manager.
Qualifications :
- 2 years of professional experience in software testing / quality engineering with a focus on testing scalable distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with Python and the PyTest framework for test automation
- Practical experience with performance testing tools Gatling and Locust including test script development and results analysis
- Experience with different types of testing: functional regression integration end-to-end smoke sanity performance load stress and soak testing
- Experience testing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
- Functional domain knowledge and translate it into comprehensive well-structured test cases
- Good debugging and comfortable reading application logs tracing failures across services and providing clear defect reports with reproduction steps
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows
- Experience with Git and version control workflows
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred e.g. EKS S3 SQS/SNS Lambda)
- With the ability to ask the right questions clarify requirements and collaborate with developers and product partners
Nice to Have
- Experience testing applications that integrate with backend services (Java Spring Services or NoSql DBs)
- Familiarity with dotNet / Java and ability to read/-based microservice code
- Experience with contract testing (e.g. Pact) or API specification validation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Exposure to Bash scripting for test utilities and automation
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) for testing in containerized environments
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (CloudWatch Datadog Splunk Grafana and Kibana) for correlating test results with system behavior
- Awareness of event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka SQS/SNS)
- Experience with test management tools (e.g. Zephyr TestRail or Xray)
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Exposure to accessibility testing or security testing fundamentals
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams
Additional Information :
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Benefits
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Remote Work :
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Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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