QA Engineer — Job Description

Summary

Designs and executes testing strategies to ensure software meets functional, performance, reliability, and quality standards before release.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans, test cases, and test suites for functional, integration, regression, and system testing.
• Design and implement automated test frameworks and scripts for unit, API, integration, and end‑to‑end tests.
• Perform exploratory testing and usability testing to uncover edge cases and user‑facing issues.
• Triage, reproduce, and document defects; create clear bug reports and work with developers to verify fixes.
• Define and enforce quality gates, acceptance criteria, and testing standards across the development lifecycle.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and maintain test data, environments, and test orchestration.
• Execute performance, load, stress, and reliability testing and analyze results to identify bottlenecks.
• Validate security and compliance requirements in collaboration with security engineers.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps to plan releases, run pre‑release validation, and manage rollbacks.
• Monitor production issues, participate in post‑mortems, and drive preventive quality improvements.
• Maintain test documentation, checklists, and quality metrics dashboards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience in software QA, test engineering, or related role (adjustable by level).
• Strong experience with test automation (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar) and API testing (Postman, REST-assured).
• Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and version control (Git).
• Knowledge of testing methodologies (unit, integration, E2E, black/white‑box), test design techniques, and bug life cycle.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling), security testing, and chaos testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with test management and observability tools (TestRail, Zephyr, Allure, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience testing microservices, distributed systems, mobile apps, or cloud‑native applications.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code (Terraform), containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes.
• Certifications in testing (ISTQB) or quality engineering practices.

Competencies & Soft Skills

• Attention to detail and quality mindset.
• Problem‑solving with a pragmatic, risk‑based testing approach.
• Collaboration and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to prioritize testing efforts and manage multiple releases.
• Continuous improvement orientation and automation-first mindset.

Pay: $45.56 – $95.67 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Salary packaging

Work Location: In person