Job Description – QA Engineer

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Validate end-to-end workflows including publication ingestion, metadata management, curation, reporting, and integrations.
• Perform manual testing across UI, API, and backend components.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for UI and API testing.
• Participate in requirements and design reviews to ensure testability and quality considerations.
• Identify, document, and track defects, and work closely with development teams for resolution.
• Validate data accuracy, integrity, and reporting outputs.
• Support testing across multiple environments and deployment phases.
• Ensure non-functional requirements such as usability, accessibility, performance, and security are addressed as needed.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a QA Engineer testing enterprise-scale web applications.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Experience testing:
  • Web-based user interfaces
  • RESTful APIs
  • Database-driven applications
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, or similar).
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail).
• Ability to analyze requirements and translate them into effective test coverage.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing greenfield applications and phased delivery models.
• Familiarity with publication management systems, research information systems.
• Knowledge of scholarly metadata standards such as DOI, ORCID, MeSH, PubMed, or similar.
• Experience validating reports, dashboards, and analytics.

Background in research, healthcare, academic, or life sciences environments