Software Test Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 4 years

Location: Gurugram

JobType: full-time

We are seeking a skilled Software Test Engineer with strong experience in both manual and automation testing for complex, high-availability web applications. The ideal candidate will be quality-driven, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in fast-paced Agile environments alongside cross-functional product and engineering teams.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct manual and automation testing for web applications with high performance and availability requirements.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks and test suites using Playwright (migrating from Selenium).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify, reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve defects early in the development cycle.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and work closely with stakeholders including Product, DevOps, and Development teams.
• Create comprehensive and well-structured test plans, test cases, and defect reports.
• Execute various testing types including regression, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing.
• Support testing activities for applications built on ReactJS (frontend) and Ruby on Rails (backend).
• Contribute to the testing lifecycle within AWS environments and understand basic AWS operational concepts.
• Engage with CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing initiatives to ensure smooth releases.
• Assist or participate in load and performance testing to validate system scalability and responsiveness.
• Ensure newly released features meet high standards of availability, stability, and functional excellence.

Experience

• Minimum 4 years of experience in software testing (manual and automation).

Technical Skills

• Playwright Automation
• Manual Testing methodologies
• Regression / Smoke / Sanity Testing
• JIRA or similar bug tracking tools
• Scrum / Agile development processes
• CI/CD tools such as Semaphore, Jenkins, or similar
• Load testing fundamentals
• Basic understanding of AWS
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent bug identification and root-cause analysis
• Squish/Qt (optional, nice to have)