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Role Overview
We are looking for a hands-on Automation Quality Analyst with strong experience in API testing, UI automation and backend validation. The candidate should be capable of understanding complex business workflows, identifying risks and taking end-to-end ownership of quality.
The role involves testing a cloud-based platform with multiple APIs, microservices, AWS components, third-party integrations and frequent deployments. Experience in fintech, payments or other transaction-heavy systems would be an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
1. Test Planning & Quality Assurance
Understand business and technical requirements and convert them into detailed test scenarios.
Create and execute functional, integration, regression, exploratory and end-to-end tests.
Test positive, negative, boundary, permission and failure scenarios.
Identify regression impact and define appropriate smoke and regression coverage.
Participate in requirement and technical-design discussions.
Raise clear defects with impact, evidence, reproduction steps and expected behaviour.
2. UI & API Automation
Build and maintain UI and API automation using Cypress.
Validate APIs, backend services, databases and third-party integrations.
Validate complex workflows involving multiple services.
Test asynchronous processes such as queues, events, webhooks and batch jobs.
Investigate failures using API responses, application logs, browser tools and AWS monitoring.
Maintain reliable test data, environment configuration and cleanup processes.
3. CI/CD & Release Validation
Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines.
Review automated-test results and troubleshoot pipeline failures.
Support release validation, production smoke testing and incident investigation.
Clearly communicate testing progress, blockers and release risks.
Contribute to improving QA processes, automation standards and release quality.
4. Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
Work closely with developers, product managers, DevOps engineers and other QA team members.
Communicate testing progress, blockers and release risks.
Contribute to improving QA processes, automation standards and release quality.
Use AI tools responsibly to improve requirement analysis, test design, automation, documentation and troubleshooting.
Required Technical Skills & Competencies
API & Backend Testing
Strong experience in API and backend testing.
Ability to validate REST APIs, JSON payloads, schemas, headers, status codes and error responses.
Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts such as JWT, OAuth, roles, permissions and scopes.
Experience testing microservices and distributed applications.
Understanding of asynchronous processing, retries, timeouts, duplicate handling and failure recovery.
UI & API Automation
Strong hands-on experience in UI and API automation using Cypress.
Strong knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript.
Experience building and maintaining reusable Cypress automation frameworks.
Experience with Cypress intercepts, fixtures, custom commands, sessions, environment configuration and reporting.
Ability to investigate flaky tests and improve automation reliability.
Database & Version Control
Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database validation.
Good knowledge of Git, branching, merge requests and code-review practices.
Experience integrating Cypress automation with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Testing Fundamentals
Strong understanding of smoke, functional, integration, contract, regression and end-to-end testing.
Basic understanding of performance, security and data-privacy testing.
AWS Knowledge
Practical exposure to AWS and ability to investigate issues using relevant services, including:
Lambda
API Gateway
CloudWatch
DynamoDB
RDS
S3
SNS
SQS
Kinesis
IAM roles and permissions
Experience testing serverless or event-driven applications is preferred.
AI Exposure
Familiarity with AI-assisted development and testing.
Ability to use AI for requirement analysis, test-case generation, identifying edge cases, automation support and documentation.
Understanding that AI-generated output must be reviewed and validated before use.
Awareness of security and data-privacy considerations when using AI tools.
Familiarity with Claude and Cursor will be an added advantage.
Must-Have Skills
5+ years of hands-on QA and automation experience.
Strong experience in API and backend testing.
Strong hands-on experience with Cypress automation.
Strong knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript.
Experience building and maintaining reusable automation frameworks.
Experience testing REST APIs, microservices and distributed applications.
Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database validation.
Experience with Git and CI/CD integration.
Strong understanding of functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.
Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis skills.
Ability to take end-to-end ownership of quality.
Good to Have Skills
Experience in fintech, payments, banking, SaaS or transaction-heavy applications.
Experience testing payment methods, transactions, refunds, customer journeys, webhooks or authorization flows.
Experience working in Agile teams with frequent deployments.
Exposure to performance-testing tools.
Exposure to Docker.
Practical experience with AWS services.
Familiarity with Claude and Cursor.
Experience using AI-assisted testing and automation tools.
Desired Attributes
Strong ability to analyse complex business use cases and service dependencies.
Ability to identify missing requirements, edge cases and integration risks.
Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis skills.
Ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned features.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to explain technical issues and release risks clearly.
Comfortable working with client and cross-functional teams.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Willingness to ask questions and challenge unclear requirements respectfully.
Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
Responsible and practical approach to using AI tools.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Experience in fintech, payments, banking, SaaS or transaction-heavy applications.
Experience testing payment methods, transactions, refunds, customer journeys, webhooks or authorization flows.
Experience working in Agile teams with frequent deployments.
Exposure to performance-testing tools and Docker would be beneficial.
What We Are Looking For
We need someone who does more than execute predefined test cases. The person should be able to understand a complex feature, identify the risks, define complete coverage, automate the right scenarios and clearly communicate whether the feature is ready for release.
The successful candidate will take end-to-end ownership of quality and help the team improve its testing efficiency through automation, strong analysis and responsible use of AI.
Interview Process
2–3 rounds of discussion.
