QA Engineer - Onsite

Indus Valley - Cincinnati, OH

Full-time - Mid Level

Cincinnati, OH

About the position

The QA Engineer position is a contract role focused on ensuring the quality of software applications through various testing methodologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in API testing, backend validation, and automation, particularly with tools like RestAssured or Karate. This role requires a proactive individual who can work independently, adapt quickly, and contribute positively to the QA process within an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Effectively work in a fast-paced environment utilizing the Agile methodology
• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices
• Execute test scripts to validate the correct functionality of application
• Use SQL and NoSQL for back-end database validation
• Perform various types of testing including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing as needed
• Participate in requirement & design review sessions; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality test automation standpoint
• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis
• Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality
• Coordinate test script reviews with stakeholders as appropriate
• Adhere to requirement review, defect writing & test script writing guidelines
• Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions
• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards
• Develop and maintain good relationships with project team
• Multi-task to meet assignment deadlines
• Accurately estimate work assignments
• Show assertiveness
• Identify obstacles and roadblocks; and offer suggestions to work around obstacles
• Help drive and improve QA process within the team you are assigned

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Web services testing with any automation tool, JSON, XML
• 2+ years of experience in Data Validation
• 2+ years of experience writing RestAssured Tests OR Karate for API testing
• 2+ years of experience with Message Queues, Kafka
• 2+ years of experience in Service Virtualization
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud Deployments

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kafka or Message Queues