Quality Assurance Specialist
Experience: 3-7 years
Notice Period: Immediate
Location:Hyderabad
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust UI automation frameworks using Playwright.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and system testing for web applications.
- Validate REST APIs and gRPC services, including request/response verification, error handling, and contract validation.
- Develop and execute automated API tests using Playwright or other API automation frameworks.
- Perform database validation by writing and executing SQL queries to verify data integrity and business rules.
- Review business requirements and technical designs to define effective test strategies and test scenarios.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Analyze test metrics and provide recommendations for improving product quality and testing efficiency.
Required Skills
- 5–6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright using TypeScript.
- Experience testing REST APIs and gRPC APIs/services.
- Strong understanding of API protocols, JSON, Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), HTTP/HTTP2, authentication, and service validation.
- Hands-on experience using tools such as Postman, gRPC clients (e.g., grpcurl or BloomRPC), or equivalent API testing tools.
- Strong SQL skills with experience in database testing, including data validation, complex queries, joins, stored procedures, and data consistency checks.
- Experience with test automation framework design, maintenance, and execution.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
- Experience with Git and version control best practices.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
