Backend QA Engineer
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# Backend QA Engineer
## Company Overview
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## Job Summary
We are seeking a **highly skilled** and **detail-oriented** Backend QA Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for **validating backend systems, APIs, databases,** and **microservices** to ensure **robustness**, **reliability**, and **performance**. The ideal candidate has strong experience in **backend testing frameworks**, **automation**, and a deep understanding of **backend architecture**.
## Responsibilities
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to understand backend functionality and define test strategies.
- Design and implement test plans, test cases, and test automation for RESTful APIs, databases, and backend systems.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, performance, and load testing.
- Build and maintain automated test suites using tools like **Postman**, **REST Assured**, **JUnit**, **TestNG**, etc.
- Validate data pipelines, backend processes, and message queues (**Kafka/RabbitMQ**).
- Write and execute complex **SQL queries** to validate data integrity and backend logic.
- Participate in code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and provide feedback to improve product quality.
- Log, track, and report defects in a timely manner and verify fixes.
## Qualifications
- **3+ years** of experience in backend QA or similar roles.
- Strong experience with **API testing tools** (e.g., **Postman**, **REST Assured**, **SoapUI**).
- Proficiency in **test automation** using **Java**, **Python**, or **JavaScript**.
- Deep understanding of **RESTful APIs**, **microservices**, and **backend architecture**.
- Experience with **SQL** and working with relational databases (e.g., **MySQL**, **PostgreSQL**).
- Familiarity with **message brokers** (e.g., **Kafka**, **RabbitMQ**) and testing asynchronous services.
- Experience with **CI/CD tools** (e.g., **Jenkins**, **GitLab CI**, **GitHub Actions**).
- Knowledge of **performance testing** tools like **JMeter** or **Gatling** is a plus.
## Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with automated testing tools and frameworks.
- Experience in working with cloud environments and microservices architecture.
## Experience
- Minimum of **3 years** of experience in backend QA or similar roles is required.
## Environment
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## Salary
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## Growth Opportunities
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## Benefits
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