IT Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for certifying the quality, reliability, and performance of software applications through a combination of manual and automated testing. This position will govern software quality throughout the development lifecycle, leveraging testing, validation, and defect management to ensure solutions meet business needs, technical specifications, and production readiness before go‑live.

Key responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive testing of web and mobile applications, including functional, integration, regression, smoke, and end‑to‑end testing, while validating cross‑browser and cross‑device compatibility.
• Develop and execute test plans to validate business and technical requirements, ensuring application stability and readiness for production release.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Execute automated and manual test cases, maintain automated test scripts, and support regression test suites.
• Identify repetitive test cases suitable for automation and assist in their implementation.
• Validate APIs using tools like Postman, ensuring proper request/response handling, authentication, and error handling.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to document, investigate, and resolve defects.
• Support off‑hours production releases to ensure smooth deployment.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of hands‑on experience in manual QA testing, including development, execution, and maintenance of test cases.

Required skills

• Test automation tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices.
• AI tools and technologies to improve testing productivity.
• API testing fundamentals using Postman or equivalent.
• Test management and defect tracking tools: Jira, TestRail, Xray, Zephyr.