Software Quality Assurance Engineer

About the job

Alyke is a product-based social networking startup redefining how people make friends—making it simple, fun, and real to build lasting connections. We move fast, build with ownership, and care deeply about quality and scale.

We are looking for an exceptionally strong coder who loves engineering, automation, architecture, and system thinking—someone who can be a long-term technical asset and help us build high-quality, scalable systems.

Experience: 1-4 years (Flexible for exceptional candidates)

Location: Noida (Work from Office)

Employment Type: Full-time

This role goes beyond QA and test execution. You will engineer quality systems and contribute to architecture-level decisions through strong automation frameworks, tooling, and performance reliability engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & build automation frameworks from scratch (UI + API + integration).

• Write high-quality, scalable, maintainable test automation code.

• Build automation around:.

• Mobile app flows (Android/iOS).

• Backend APIs.

• Critical workflows (auth, chat, premium, notifications).

• Create a structured release reliability layer (regression automation + smoke suite).

• Work closely with dev & product to identify risk areas and improve architecture quality.

• Improve overall engineering standards reliability, performance, observability, test coverage.

• Diagnose root causes of complex issues using logs, traces, DB checks, network debugging.

• Contribute to system design discussions, architecture reviews, and scalability planning.

• Define best practices for quality, code reviews, CI automation, and deployment gates.

Must-Have Skills (Non-Negotiable)

We want someone who is coding-first, not just tool-first.

• Strong hands-on programming in Java / JavaScript / TypeScript / Python.

• Strong fundamentals in:.

• data structures, OOP, clean code practices - debugging + reasoning.

• writing reusable libraries/modules.

• Experience with building automation frameworks using- Selenium / Playwright / Cypress (web), Appium / Espresso / XCUITest (mobile).

• Strong API testing using:.

• Postman (basic) + real automation using code.

• REST/JSON, authentication flows, token lifecycle.

Good to Have (Highly Preferred)

• Performance testing using JMeter / k6.

• Strong SQL knowledge + ability to validate data at DB layer.

• Understanding of:.

• microservices.

• caching.

• message queues.

• distributed systems behavior.

• Familiarity with observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).

What Makes You Stand Out

You'll be a great fit if you:

• Love engineering and coding.

• Think in systems, not just test cases.

• Can reason about architecture, scalability, performance and failure scenarios.

• Write automation as a product: clean, reliable, maintainable.

• Want to evolve into a future Tech Lead / QA Architect / Reliability Engineer.