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Chennai, India Pune, India Hybrid

Senior General QA Engineer (Backend testing)

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Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior General QA Engineer (Backend testing) to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior General QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. This role will require a mix of both manual and automated testing, where 60% of your capacity will be dedicated to test automation, while the other 40% will be focused on manual exploratory testing. The ideal candidate will have excellent knowledge of API testing, contract testing, and integration testing, with a strong background in Java-based automation frameworks. This position is a great opportunity for someone who is comfortable working in a dynamic and complex environment involving both low code/no code solutions and traditional testing approaches.

Responsibilities

 Test Automation (60%):

  • Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Java Spring and REST Assured for backend API testing
  • Create automated tests for APIs, ensuring comprehensive coverage and robust validation
  • Perform and automate contract testing to validate interactions between services and ensure they meet agreed-upon interfaces
  • Collaborate with developers and business analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and feature specifications
  • Integrate the automated test suite into the CI/CD pipeline

Manual Testing (40%):

  • Execute manual test cases, especially for low code/no code solutions that require in-depth business knowledge
  • Validate complex business workflows, decision trees, and customized processes to ensure they meet functional requirements
  • Conduct regression, exploratory, and system integration testing to ensure robustness
  • Work closely with functional consultants and developers to identify gaps and provide feedback during the early stages of feature development

Requirements

Technical Skills:

  • Test Automation: Proficiency in Java, Spring, and REST Assured for API testing. Ability to create test automation solutions from scratch
  • API Testing: Strong experience with API testing, including integration and contract testing
  • CI/CD Tools: Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and hands-on experience integrating test suites into them. CI/CD stack includes GitLab, YAML, PowerShell, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform
  • Manual Testing: Ability to understand and navigate complex low code/no code platforms like FlowOn to verify workflows and configurations
  • Database: Experience with MS-SQL
  • OS: Experience with virtualization and working with VMWare
  • 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with a focus on both manual and automated testing
  • Strong background in testing APIs, including integration and contract testing
  • Experience with Java Spring frameworks and REST Assured for API automation
  • Familiarity with agile development methodologies and collaborating across teams
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to stand ground for the QA and advocate for QA practices

Desirable

  • Experience working with Liferay DXP and Dynamics 365 CRM
  • Knowledge of Azure DevOps (similar to Jira) for task management and tracking QA processes

What's in it for you

  • Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, as well as financial and legal consultation
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: hybrid work mode at Chennai or Pune 
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Resourcing Team helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfil your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:

India is a strategic growth market for Ciklum.

Be a part of a big story created right now. Lets grow our delivery center in India together! Boost your skills and knowledge: create and innovate with like-minded professionals — all of that within a global company with a local spirit and start-up soul. 

Supported by Recognize Partners and expanding globally, we will engineer the experiences of tomorrow! 

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

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We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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