Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Role overview

Experience and requirements

• At least 5 years of software quality assurance or software testing experience.
• Strong manual testing experience across functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing.
• Strong API testing experience with REST APIs and web services.
• Experience with defect reporting, investigation, retesting, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or similar API testing tools, and defect or project management tools such as Jira.
• Analyze requirements and identify gaps, risks, and edge cases; design comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Understand HTTP methods, status codes, headers, authentication, JSON/XML, and API request/response validation.
• Hands-on Playwright automation using TypeScript or JavaScript; review automation code and troubleshoot scripts and frameworks.
• Understand Agile/Scrum and SDLC/STLC; analyze logs, API responses, database records, and application behavior.
• Familiarity with Git and source-control platforms such as GitHub or Bitbucket.
• ISTQB Foundation certification is required.

Skills

• Software quality assurance, manual testing, API testing, and REST APIs.
• Playwright automation with TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Test design, defect management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, Jira, Agile/Scrum, SDLC/STLC, and Git platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design test scenarios and cases that cover positive, negative, boundary, and edge cases.
• Conduct manual testing and test REST APIs and web services.
• Report, investigate, and retest defects; analyze root causes.
• Review test cases and automation code produced by other QA engineers.
• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot automated test scripts and frameworks.
• Analyze logs, API responses, database records, and application behavior.
• Ensure software quality throughout the SDLC/STLC.