QA Automation Engineer

Job Requirements

At Quest Global, it's not just what we do but how and why we do it that makes us different. With over 25 years as an engineering services provider, we believe in the power of doing things differently to make the impossible possible. Our people are driven by the desire to make the world a better place—to make a positive difference that contributes to a brighter future. We bring together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals who are empowered by an intentional workplace culture, to solve problems better and faster.

Job Description

We are looking for a QA Engineer with 2–4 years of experience in manual testing, API/backend testing, UI automation, and test automation. The candidate should have strong testing fundamentals, programming knowledge, and hands-on experience in developing reusable automation solutions. The role involves testing cloud-hosted backend services, REST APIs, integrations, and web applications, designing test scenarios, automating repetitive and regression test cases, validating end-to-end workflows, and troubleshooting issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers.

Key Responsibilities

Manual, Functional & Backend Testing

• Analyze business and technical requirements and create test scenarios, test cases, test data, and test plans.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, sanity, negative, boundary, exploratory, and end-to-end testing.
• Perform REST API testing using Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, and cURL.
• Validate API request/response payloads, HTTP methods, status codes, headers, authentication, schemas, data types, and business rules.
• Perform functional, integration, and end-to-end testing of cloud-hosted REST APIs and backend services across multiple environments.
• Validate communication and workflows between distributed backend services, including API dependencies and third-party integrations.
• Perform backend/database validation using SQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Validate application behavior across different environments and releases.
• Analyze application/service logs, API responses, and monitoring data to troubleshoot backend failures, latency, connectivity, and integration issues.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects through the complete defect lifecycle.
• Perform root-cause analysis and collaborate with developers, DevOps, and product teams to resolve issues.
• Participate in test planning, estimation, test execution, release validation, and regression cycles.
  
  

Automation Testing

• Develop and maintain Python-based automation for API and UI testing.
• Automate repetitive, regression, functional, negative, boundary, and workflow-based test scenarios.
• Develop reusable and data/config-driven automation frameworks to improve test coverage and reduce manual effort.
• Perform API automation including authentication, request/response validation, schema validation, retries, API chaining, and third-party service validation.
• Develop UI automation using Selenium for critical end-to-end workflows.
• Maintain reusable test components, test data, configurations, and automated reporting.
• Analyze automation failures and troubleshoot issues using logs, API responses, and application behavior.
• Identify suitable test cases for automation and continuously improve automation coverage and execution efficiency.
  
  

Performance & System Testing

• Perform load and performance testing using JMeter.
• Work with distributed applications and containerized environments.
• Use monitoring and logging tools to identify application and system bottlenecks. Technical Skills Testing: Manual Testing, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, End-to-End, API & Backend Testing Automation: Python, Selenium, REST API Automation, BDD/Behave, Data/Config-Driven Frameworks API & Database: REST, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, cURL, JSON, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Performance & Infrastructure: JMeter, Docker, Kubernetes/AKS, ELK/Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus
  
  

Preferred Candidate

• 2–4 years of experience in Software Testing / QA.
• Strong hands-on experience in manual testing with good API/backend testing knowledge.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Practical experience in Python-based API/UI automation.
• Good understanding of STLC, SDLC, defect lifecycle, test design techniques, and Agile methodologies.
• Experience developing or working with reusable automation frameworks.
• Good debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Exposure to performance testing, databases, monitoring tools, and cloud/containerized environments is preferred.
  
  

Core Skill Summary

Manual Testing | API & Backend Testing | Cloud-hosted Backend Services | Microservices | Python Automation | Selenium | REST APIs | Test Framework Development | SQL | Performance Testing | JMeter | Docker | Kubernetes | ELK | Grafana | Agile/Scrum

We are known for our extraordinary people who make the impossible possible every day. Questians are driven by hunger, humility, and aspiration. We believe that our company culture is the key to our ability to make a true difference in every industry we reach. Our teams regularly invest time and dedicated effort into internal culture work, ensuring that all voices are heard.

We wholeheartedly believe in the diversity of thought that comes with fostering a culture rooted in respect, where everyone belongs, is valued, and feels inspired to share their ideas. We know embracing our unique differences makes us better, and that solving the worlds hardest engineering problems requires diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. We shine the brightest when we tap into the many dimensions that thrive across over 21,000 difference-makers in our workplace.