[Remote] QA Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Diverse Lynx is recruiting a QA Engineer for software quality assurance and testing. The role owns quality assurance across frontend and backend applications, develops and maintains automated UI and API test coverage, integrates tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supports Agile/Scrum quality processes.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated regression and smoke suites; keep them stable, reliable, and low-noise
- Convert high-value manual regression cases into automated coverage
- Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and report results back to the team
- Automate API tests using Playwright's built-in API testing capabilities (APIRequestContext / request fixture) in TypeScript
- Perform exploratory and manual API testing using Postman or equivalent tools
- Test REST services and SOAP services where applicable
- Validate applications against JSON/XML API contracts, including schema validation, error handling, authentication, and negative scenarios
- Combine UI and API layers in end-to-end scenarios using API calls for test setup, data seeding, and state verification
- Own quality assurance for assigned applications and features across frontend and backend layers
- Identify, log, prioritise, and track defects to closure reproduce issues and partner with developers on root cause
- Contribute to test strategy, test plans, estimation, and quality gates within the SDLC
- Participate fully in Agile/Scrum ceremonies sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Ensure compliance with web, cloud, browser, and API standards
Skills
- Understanding and experience of software test methodologies & types of test automation frameworks
- AGILE scrum methodology experience & Safe agile is mandatory
- Hands-on experience on manual testing & automating web-based or PC based software
- Experience in coaching other testers
- Understanding and experience of various aspects of software and system testing, Functional, non-functional, integration, system, performance, robustness, compatibility, regression, customer mode testing
- CANDIDATES WITH WORKING KNOWLEDGE & HANDS ON ANY AUTOMATION TOOL LIKE TEST COMPLETE/PYTHON/SELENIUM WITH ROBOT FRAMEWORK ARE ESSENTIAL
- WORKING KNOWLEDGE ON JAVASCRIPT, TYPE SCRIPT, PYTHON, SELENIUM, HTML, CCS
- DESIGN BUILD AND MAINTAIN TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORKS USING TYPESCRIPT/JAVASCRIPT WITH PLAYWRIGHT – MANDATORY
- HANDS-ON TEST AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE WITH JAVASCRIPT AND TYPESCRIPT - MANDATORY
- HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH PLAYWRIGHT FOR BOTH UI AND API AUTOMATION - MANDATORY
- Develop and maintain automated regression and smoke suites; keep them stable, reliable, and low-noise
- Convert high-value manual regression cases into automated coverage
- Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and report results back to the team
- Automate API tests using Playwright's built-in API testing capabilities (APIRequestContext / request fixture) in TypeScript
- Perform exploratory and manual API testing using Postman or equivalent tools
- Test REST services and SOAP services where applicable
- Validate applications against JSON/XML API contracts, including schema validation, error handling, authentication, and negative scenarios
- Combine UI and API layers in end-to-end scenarios using API calls for test setup, data seeding, and state verification
- Own quality assurance for assigned applications and features across frontend and backend layers
- Identify, log, prioritise, and track defects to closure reproduce issues and partner with developers on root cause
- Contribute to test strategy, test plans, estimation, and quality gates within the SDLC
- Participate fully in Agile/Scrum ceremonies sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Ensure compliance with web, cloud, browser, and API standards
- CANDIDATES WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS, LIKE MODBUS, HTTP, SNMP, IEC61850 WORKING KNOWLEDGE ON WIRESHARK FRAME TRACE, MODBUS LOGS ETC WOULD BE PREFERRED
- KNOWLEDGE ON ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION DEVICES ARE PREFERABLE
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