QA Engineer SR (QB - QA - 20251114)

What You’ll Do Here:

• Design, implement, and maintain automated API and service-level test cases using Karate and Postman.
• Collaborate with QA and engineering teams to define test strategies for new features and services.
• Develop and maintain regression and smoke test suites to validate service health and system stability.
• Perform manual exploratory and validation testing for complex backend workflows or non-automatable areas.
• Execute and design backend performance validations using tools like JMeter, k6, or equivalent.
• Validate data integrity and perform root cause analysis using logs, service metrics, and backend databases.
• Run tests in Dockerized environments or local dev environments; contribute to test environment setup and configuration.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Contribute to continuous integration (CI) and continuous testing (CT) pipelines as part of the QA automation lifecycle.

Experience We’re Looking For:

• Required Experience & Skills
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with emphasis on backend systems and APIs.
• Proven experience writing and maintaining tests in Karate Framework and Postman (including assertions, chaining, and scripting).
• Strong understanding of RESTful services, including headers, auth flows, status codes, and payload validation.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized test setups.
• Experience reading logs and debugging backend systems.
• Solid manual QA background and exploratory testing experience for service-level validation.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum and using tools like JIRA, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic proficiency in reading code (e.g., Java, C#, JavaScript) to assist in triage and test alignment.


• Bonus Experience:
• Familiarity with Point of Sale (POS) Systems.
• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, k6, or Locust.
• Knowledge of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience testing distributed or edge-deployed systems (e.g., POS terminals, IoT devices).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Domain expertise in restaurant/POS systems and related workflows.

The Type of Team Player We Need:

• A technical QA engineer who enjoys getting hands-on with code, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Passionate about quality and delivering scalable, robust services.
• Curious and self-driven: eager to experiment and iterate to find effective solutions.
• Strong communicator who can articulate quality risks and collaborate across teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with high expectations.
• A team player who takes pride in raising the QA bar across squads.