QA Intern (REST & Automation)

About the Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented API QA Intern to join our engineering team. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our RESTful services. You will operate within an Agile/Scrum framework, participating in sprints and ensuring quality is delivered continuously.

Key Responsibilities

• Agile Participation: Actively participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospectives to ensure quality is integrated from the start.
• Full-Stack Awareness: Perform extensive Frontend testing to verify that API responses are correctly rendered on the UI.
• API Testing: Design and execute comprehensive test suites for RESTful APIs using tools like Postman or Insomnia.
• Automation: Gradually transition manual test cases into automated scripts using RestAssured (Java) to improve regression efficiency.
• Defect Management: Document clear, reproducible bug reports and track them through the entire SDLC via JIRA or similar tools.
• Issue Debugging: Actively monitor and analyze application logs (using CloudWatch, Splunk, ELK, or terminal-based tools) to identify root causes of failures.
• Database Validation: Write and execute SQL queries to verify that API transactions are correctly reflected in the database.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong understanding of API architecture.
• Ability to navigate server logs to hunt down bugs.
• Proficient SQL skills to validate data integrity at the source.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum framework.
• Experience with Frontend testing.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with tools like Postman or Insomnia.
• Familiarity with RestAssured (Java) for automation.
• Experience with JIRA or similar defect tracking tools.
• Experience with log analysis tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, ELK, or terminal-based tools.

Qualifications

• No specific educational qualifications are listed, but technical aptitude in the above areas is implied.