Website Advanced Tech Placement
Advanced Tech Placement
Company : Advanced Tech Placement
As a QA Engineer , you will be an integral part of a cross-functional Agile product development group, responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability and usability of the HR/cloud solution. You ll collaborate closely with Product Owners, Developers, UX/Design, DevOps and other QA peers to define test strategy, execute test plans (manual + automation), raise quality metrics, and advocate for the end user.
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Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming and stand-ups to understand upcoming features, acceptance criteria and risks.
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Define test strategy, test objectives and scope for features in the Lyric product.
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Design, develop and execute test cases (manual and automated) that cover UI, API, integration and system behaviour.
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Build and maintain automation suites using tools such as Selenium (or other UI automation frameworks), API test tools, BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber).
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Execute functional, regression, integration, system, performance and usability tests.
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Work with DevOps/CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) to integrate automation and ensure build quality.
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Collaborate with developers to locate root causes, reproduce issues, provide detailed bug reports (with steps to reproduce, logs, screen captures, data), and verify fixes.
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Advocate for quality by identifying gaps in test coverage, recommending improvements in the process, toolchain or product design.
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Generate and present metrics on test coverage, defect trends, automation execution, and quality status to stakeholders.
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Champion best practices around QA in the team (e.g., shift-left testing, pair testing, automation early in sprint).
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Stay current with new testing tools, frameworks or techniques, and coach/mentor junior QA engineers as needed.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Ideally automation testing with playwright experience.
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Several years of professional QA/test engineering experience in a software development environment (UI + API + integration testing).
- Strong experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium WebDriver) and test script development (languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python).
- Heavy use of Node.js is a MUST
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Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow) and writing feature/scenario files.
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Experience in API testing (Postman, REST/SOAP services) and backend testing (databases, SQL).
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Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins) and integrating automation into the build pipeline.
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Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to communicate with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
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Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment dynamic, ambiguous requirements, fast pace.
Nice-to-Have
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Experience with modern UI frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) or mobile testing frameworks.
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Familiarity with performance / load testing (JMeter, etc) or accessibility testing (WCAG)
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Experience working on SaaS/cloud-based HR / HCM products.
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Experience mentoring other QA engineers, contributing to team process improvements.