Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Bengaluru, India
Department: Software
Experience: 2-4
About Inito
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with development, product, and business teams to understand software requirements and develop detailed test cases and test plans.
- Conduct functional, non-functional, smoke, sanity, regression, compatibility, and integration testing across web, iOS, and Android applications and backend services.
- Perform REST API and server-side testing to validate business logic, data integrity, and system behaviour.
- Write and execute automation test cases using tools such as Appium, Selenium, or API automation frameworks, ensuring thorough coverage and efficient execution.
- Take ownership of the automation framework — keeping tests stable, scalable, and reliable across releases.
- Monitor automation execution in CI/CD pipelines, investigate failures, identify root causes, and track defects through to resolution.
- Execute test cases, document results, and raise detailed bug reports with reproduction steps and impact analysis using issue tracking tools (e.g. JIRA).
- Troubleshoot and diagnose software issues, working closely with developers to drive timely resolution.
- Participate in defect root cause analysis and contribute proposed solutions and process improvements.
- Validate backend data and understand database relationships to verify API responses and business logic accuracy.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and promote quality best practices across the team.
- Continuously learn and apply industry-standard testing methodologies, tools, and practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- B.E. / B.Tech. / M.E. / M.Tech. / MCA with 2–4 years of experience in software testing.
- Proven experience testing Web, iOS, and Android applications.
- Strong hands-on experience in REST API testing and backend validation.
- Good knowledge of Postman, including collection management, environments, and scripting.
- Basic knowledge of SQL and database validation for backend testing.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills with high attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across Product, Engineering, and QA teams.
- Familiarity with bug tracking and test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail).
- High sense of ownership and accountability for product quality.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with API automation frameworks (Newman, Playwright API, or similar).
- Familiarity with automated testing tools (e.g. Appium, Selenium, TestNG) and experience writing and maintaining automated test cases.
- Knowledge of performance and load testing tools.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, or Datadog
