Associate QA

We're looking for a QA Engineer with 1–2 years of hands-on experience to join our testing team. The candidate should be comfortable writing and maintaining automation scripts under guidance, with a solid grip on core Java and Selenium fundamentals, and a willingness to grow into API testing, CI/CD, and framework-level work.

• Automation — Must Have
• 1–2 years hands-on automation experience
• Working knowledge of Java (OOPs, collections, exception handling)
• Selenium WebDriver basics (locators, waits, actions)
• TestNG basics (annotations, assertions, test suites)
• Maven basics (running builds, managing dependencies)
• Understanding of Page Object Model (can implement with guidance)
• Exposure to an existing automation framework (not expected to build one solo)
• Basic debugging of automation failures
• Awareness of flaky test issues (handling with guidance)
  
  

Good to have: Selenium Grid exposure, Docker basics, parallel execution concepts

• API Testing
• Basic understanding of REST APIs
• Hands-on with Postman for manual API testing
• Exposure to Rest Assured or similar (writing simple GET/POST validations)
• Ability to validate request/response structures
• Basic understanding of authentication (API keys, tokens)
  
  

Good to have: API chaining exposure

• Database
• SQL basics — SELECT, WHERE, simple JOINs
• Ability to write basic validation queries
• Understanding of UI → DB validation concept
• CI/CD
• Basic Git usage (clone, commit, push, pull, branching)
• Awareness of Jenkins (running existing jobs, checking build status)
• Ability to execute Maven/TestNG suites locally
  
  

Good to have: Exposure to scheduled Jenkins runs, basic failure triage

• Testing Knowledge
• Ability to read and understand requirements/user stories
• Test case design for functional scenarios
• Execution of regression, smoke, and sanity test cycles
• Bug reporting with clear reproduction steps
• Solid grasp of manual functional testing
• Performance & Security (Awareness Level)
• Basic familiarity with JMeter or performance testing concepts (not mandatory)
• Awareness of security testing basics (optional, not expected)
  
  

Required Skills

Cucumber / BDD Postman Playwright Page Object Model (POM) Maven TestNG java Selenium WebDriver jenkins JUnit