QA Engineer – Manual, Automation & AI-Assisted Testing

QA Engineer – Manual, Automation & AI-Assisted Testing

Location

Remote

Experience

5–6 years (flexible for candidates with strong technical expertise)

Working Hours

IST

Employment Type

Full-Time

Reporting To

Project Manager

Compensation

₹15–17 LPA (negotiable depending on experience, technical skills, and interview performance)

About the Role

We're looking for a highly skilled, proactive, and detail-oriented QA Engineer with strong hands-on experience in both Manual and Automation Testing to join Meera AI's product engineering team.

You'll be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and scalability of our AI-powered SaaS platform through comprehensive testing strategies, automated test development, API validation, database testing, and continuous quality improvement.This is not a manual-testing-only position. We're looking for someone who can independently manage the end-to-end QA lifecycle, write and maintain automation scripts, develop reusable testing frameworks, identify critical defects, and work closely with developers and product teams to deliver high-quality releases.

We're particularly interested in engineers who embrace modern testing practices, including AI-assisted test case generation, intelligent automation, AI-powered testing tools, and AI-driven defect analysis, to improve test coverage, reduce repetitive manual effort, and accelerate release cycles. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, analytical thinking, exceptional communication skills, and a high level of ownership.

What You'll Do

Manual & Functional Testing

Own end-to-end testing activities across web applications, APIs, backend services, and integrated systems.

Design and execute functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, system, exploratory, and end-to-end test cases.

Develop comprehensive test plans, scenarios, and test cases aligned with user stories, business requirements, and acceptance criteria.

Perform positive, negative, boundary, edge-case, cross-browser, responsive, and usability testing.

Support UAT, production validation, and release readiness activities.

Apply risk-based testing and maintain requirement traceability to ensure coverage of critical business workflows.

Automation Testing & Framework Development

Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications and APIs.

Work with automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, or equivalent tools.

Write automation scripts using Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.

Build and maintain scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks.

Implement Page Object Model (POM), data-driven testing, reusable utilities, and appropriate test design patterns.

Automate repetitive test scenarios, critical business workflows, and regression suites.

Troubleshoot automation failures, flaky tests, and environment-related issues.

Improve automation coverage, test execution reliability, and regression efficiency.

AI-Assisted Testing & Intelligent Automation

Explore and utilize AI-powered tools to accelerate test case creation, test script development, and defect identification.

Leverage tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Testim, mabl, or similar AI-enabled testing solutions.

Use AI-assisted capabilities for

Generating test cases from requirements and user stories.

Developing and optimizing automated test scripts.

Identifying missing scenarios, edge cases, and coverage gaps.

Generating synthetic test data.

Analyzing test failures, application logs, and recurring defects.

Improving regression testing efficiency.

Validate AI-generated test cases and scripts for accuracy, security, and maintainability.

Recommend practical opportunities to incorporate AI into existing QA workflows.

Ensure sensitive customer and company data is handled securely when using AI tools.

API & Integration Testing

Perform manual and automated REST API testing using Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, REST Assured, Newman, or similar tools.

Validate API endpoints, request/response payloads, HTTP status codes, authentication, authorization, and error handling.

Test OAuth 2.0, JWT, JSON/XML data structures, and API response times.

Develop reusable automated API test suites.

Validate integrations between application components, backend services, external platforms, and third-party APIs.

Verify data consistency and error handling across interconnected systems.

Exposure to SOAP APIs is an advantage.

Database & Backend Testing

Perform backend and database validation using SQL queries.

Work with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or equivalent technologies.

Validate CRUD operations, transactional workflows, data integrity, constraints, and business rules.

Verify data consistency between UI, API, and database layers.

Test data synchronization and integration workflows.

Identify backend defects, data discrepancies, and transaction failures.

Exposure to MongoDB or other NoSQL databases is an advantage.

Performance, Load & Non-Functional Testing

Perform basic performance, load, and stress testing using JMeter, k6, BlazeMeter, or similar tools.

Validate application response times, API latency, throughput, and behavior under load.

Identify performance bottlenecks and collaborate with developers to resolve them.

Support scalability, reliability, and basic security testing.

Contribute to accessibility and compatibility testing where applicable.

CI/CD & Continuous Testing

Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

Work with Git-based version control and collaborative development workflows.

Support automated smoke, regression, and API testing during build and deployment cycles.

Investigate pipeline failures and maintain stable automated test execution.

Promote shift-left testing and early defect identification.

Collaborate wi