Quality Engineer - Full Stack

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer - Full Stack, you will lead the development and implementation of comprehensive test automation frameworks that span the entire application architecture. Your work will ensure high-quality delivery across UI, API, services, performance, and data layers, covering technologies such as web, desktop, mobile, client-server, microservices, containers, and more.

Key responsibilities include:

- Design and build scalable automation solutions for functional testers across diverse platforms

- Develop and maintain test frameworks supporting UI, API, performance, and integration testing

- Analyze user stories and translate them into test scenarios and executable test cases

- Execute manual and automated tests, record results, and manage defect lifecycles using tools like JIRA or Bugzilla

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git, Jenkins, and related DevOps practices

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:

- Manual Testing: Experience analyzing user stories, designing test scenarios, executing test cases, and documenting results

- Defect Management: Proficient in managing defect lifecycles using JIRA, Bugzilla, or equivalent tools

- Agile Testing: Hands-on experience working within Agile teams and adapting to iterative development cycles

- DevOps Familiarity: Basic understanding of Git, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, and early-stage testing practices

- Testing Tools: Skilled in applying structured testing methodologies and using automation support tools

Preferred technical and professional experience

Backend/API Test Automation:

- REST/SOAP API validation using tools like Postman, Swagger, or Insomnia

- SQL/database validation for backend data integrity

- Experience with at least one programming language for API automation (Python preferred; Java, C# also valued)

Web Frontend Test Automation:

- Familiarity with unit test frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, or pytest

- Strong understanding of DOM, XPath, and CSS selector strategies

- Implementation of Page Object Model (POM) design patterns

- Experience with Selenium WebDriver (Java/Python/C#) or Cypress (JavaScript)

- Use of BDD tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow for behavior-driven testing

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