Quality Assurance Engineer II

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own testing activities for assigned user stories and small features throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria for clarity, completeness, testability, dependencies, and potential quality risks.
• Design and execute risk-based tests covering functional, regression, integration, exploratory, negative, boundary, usability, and compatibility scenarios.
• Develop, maintain, debug, and execute Playwright automated tests using JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Apply maintainable automation practices, including reusable functions, fixtures, page objects, test-data management, and reliable assertions.
• Perform UI, API, database, and end-to-end testing for assigned functionality.
• Maintain regression suites, test data, test documentation, and traceability between requirements and test coverage.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and investigate failed automated test runs.
• Distinguish between application defects, test-data issues, environment failures, and automation defects.
• Report clear and reproducible defects and participate actively in defect triage.
• Validate fixes and provide evidence-based input on release readiness.
• Use AI-assisted tools to support test design, test-data generation, automation development, defect analysis, and test-result summarization.
• Independently verify the accuracy, relevance, security, and completeness of AI-generated output.
• Participate actively in sprint planning, estimation, refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and business analysts to resolve requirement gaps and improve testability.
• Identify repeatable manual tests that are suitable for automation.
• Mentor Associate QA Engineers on test execution, defect reporting, documentation, and automation practices.
• Proactively communicate risks, dependencies, blockers, and changes in testing scope.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Typically, 1–3 years of software quality assurance or quality engineering experience.
• Strong manual testing, exploratory testing, and test-design capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright or a comparable web automation framework.
• Working proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience in testing web applications, APIs, databases, and integrated systems.
• Knowledge of tools such as Postman, Swagger, or REST API clients.
• Familiarity with SQL and database validation.
• Familiarity with Git, pull-request workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test execution.
• Practical experience working in Agile and Scrum delivery teams.
• Experience with Jira, or comparable test and defect-management platforms.
• Practical exposure to AI-assisted test generation, data generation, defect analysis, or automation support.
• Strong troubleshooting, organization, ownership, and collaboration skills.

Why Join Amtech