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.
1. 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
2. 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
3. Database
- SQL basics — SELECT, WHERE, simple JOINs
- Ability to write basic validation queries
- Understanding of UI → DB validation concept
4. 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
5. 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
6. Performance & Security (Awareness Level)
- Basic familiarity with JMeter or performance testing concepts (not mandatory)
- Awareness of security testing basics (optional, not expected)