Software Engineer II (QA)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India Full-time Retail & E-commerce
Responsibilities
- Able to identify business risks & contribute to user story definition.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and test frameworks for backend APIs, microservices, and UI.
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps to understand requirements and ensure test coverage.
- Conduct functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing in agile environments
- Participate in sprint planning, story grooming, and contribute to definition of done from a QA perspective.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, and report clear, actionable defects.
- Continuously improve QA practices and contribute to test strategy and coverage expansion.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and work with DevOps to run tests in AWS environments.
- Experience in defining and reviewing Test Cases & Plans.
- Creativity and thinking out-of-the-box as this project heart of store technology.
- Experience in writing automation frameworks from scratch.
- Experience and in-depth knowledge of one or more programming languages (ex: JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.).
- Experience with one or more test tools & frameworks (ex: Selenium Web driver, cypress, Karate, JMeter, etc.).
- Team player mentality, actively cooperating with both engineering and non-engineering colleagues.
Education & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or similar area of study.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in QA automation
- Experience working in SCRUM environments.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js) or Java.
- Basic development knowledge in Core Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience with test automation frameworks such as:
¨ Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or WebdriverIO (for UI testing).
¨ Postman, RestAssured, or Supertest (for API testing).
- Experience with writing tests for RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Proficient in using test runners like Mocha, Jest, JUnit, or TestNG.
- Exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling, or K6.
- Experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Gherkin, or Behave.
- Familiarity with TestRail, JIRA, or similar test management and bug tracking tools.
- Knowledge of database testing using SQL or NoSQL queries.
- Familiarity with executing tests in AWS-based environments.
- Experience with:
¨ CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
¨ Docker-based test execution or containerized test environments
¨ Using CloudWatch, S3, and EC2 to support QA processes