QA Engineer

We are looking for a sharp, detail-oriented QA Engineer who enjoys finding bugs, challenging assumptions, and ensuring exceptional product quality. The ideal candidate is a detective at heart—someone who does not just follow test cases but investigates unexpected behavior, questions how systems work, and identifies issues before customers do. This is a hands-on, manual-testing-first role requiring strong SQL, API testing, debugging, and analytical skills, along with exposure to UI automation and AI-powered testing tools.

Responsibilities:

• Perform end-to-end manual testing of web and mobile applications.
• Design, write, review, and maintain comprehensive test cases and test scenarios.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing.
• Validate application functionality across UI, API, and database layers.
• Write and execute SQL queries for data validation and troubleshooting as part of day-to-day testing activities.
• Perform API testing using tools like Postman or similar.
• Debug issues by analyzing logs, API requests and responses, database records, and application behavior.
• Work closely with developers and product teams to identify root causes and ensure high-quality releases.
• Participate in requirement analysis and identify test scenarios early in the development lifecycle.
• Think beyond the documented requirements and identify edge cases, negative scenarios, and usability issues.
• Contribute to automation efforts wherever applicable.
• Leverage AI tools to improve testing efficiency, generate test ideas, analyze production issues, accelerate root cause analysis, and enhance overall QA productivity.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in manual testing with excellent knowledge of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle.
• Hands-on experience testing both web and mobile applications.
• Strong experience in UI testing, API testing, and database testing.
• Excellent test case design skills with the ability to create effective positive, negative, boundary, and edge-case scenarios.
• Strong exploratory testing skills with a mindset to challenge and break the application.
• Good understanding of different testing methodologies and quality assurance best practices.
• Strong SQL knowledge.
• Ability to write complex SQL queries involving joins, aggregations, subqueries, and data validation.
• Comfortable validating backend data independently during regular testing activities.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyze application logs, API traffic, database records, and application behavior to identify the root cause of issues.
• Good understanding of client-server architecture and application workflows.
• Basic understanding of system architecture and high-level design (HLD), with the ability to understand how different components interact within the system.
• Hands-on experience in UI automation.
• Experience with Playwright using TypeScript is a strong advantage.
• Understanding of automation frameworks and scripting concepts is desirable.
• Willingness to contribute to automation initiatives over time.

Nice To Have:

• Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar to improve testing productivity.
• Ability to use AI for test case and test data generation.
• Ability to use AI for exploratory testing ideas and edge-case identification.
• Ability to use AI for SQL query generation and optimization.
• Ability to use AI for API request creation and validation.
• Ability to use AI for debugging production issues and performing root cause analysis.
• Ability to use AI for writing automation scripts and improving existing test automation.
• Strong understanding of when to rely on AI-generated output and when to validate it through engineering judgment.