Associate Software Development Engineer in Test
ReliaQuest12 days ago
Pune, IndiaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated API smoke and regression tests for backend services.
- Contribute to UI automation with Playwright and potentially mobile automation.
- Improve test reliability, test data setup, and environment stability.
- Develop and maintain automated tests running in GitLab CI pipelines.
- Investigate flaky and failing pipelines across product defects, test code, and environmental issues.
- Analyze logs, metrics, and test reports to troubleshoot failures across services and environments.
- Create actionable bug reports with reproduction steps and technical details.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams on quality and reliability issues.
- Contribute to test standards, automation frameworks, pre-commit hooks, engineering helpers, and quality tooling.
- Use and validate AI-assisted tools for test discovery, automation design, code review, failure triage, and documentation.
- Improve automation and quality practices to help prevent production incidents.
Requirements
- Foundational experience reading and modifying code in Java, TypeScript, or a similar programming language.
- Basic knowledge of REST APIs, HTTP methods, and HTTP status codes.
- Familiarity with Git and branch-based development workflows.
- Willingness to debug test code, services, pipelines, and environments.
- An automation-first mindset and interest in reliable, maintainable test solutions.
- Working knowledge of Claude or similar AI-assisted engineering tools for test design, automation, debugging, failure analysis, and productivity.
- Ability to validate, refine, and correct AI-generated recommendations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn through training, pairing, and feedback.
- Preferred exposure to CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, test automation frameworks, API testing tools, Playwright, Selenium, mobile automation, logs, dashboards, metrics, monitoring tools, production or staging incidents, root-cause investigation, and AI-assisted automation workflows.
Benefits
- Training, pairing, guidance, and feedback are provided.
- Opportunity to gain hands-on experience with production-level systems, test automation, CI pipelines, failure analysis, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
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