Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Location: Islamabad

Job Type: Contract – One year (Extendable)

Experience Required: 6+ Years

DigyCorp is seeking a Senior QA Engineer with 6+ years of experience to join our dynamic global team. This role is ideal for a professional with strong JavaScript skills, hands-on experience with Cypress or Playwright, and a solid background in cloud-based testing. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing both manual and automated test scripts while ensuring the reliability and scalability of our applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test scripts to validate product functionality and ensure high-quality releases.
• Perform infrastructure testing to verify robustness of system architecture.
• Analyse server logs to identify and resolve issues quickly.
• Conduct cloud testing on Azure, including apps, containers, and serverless functions.
• Test storage, queues, databases, and end-to-end workflows; monitor logs, metrics, and traces with alerts.
• Validate Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep) and cloud cost efficiency.
• Work with blue/green and canary deployments with rapid rollback capabilities.
• Write a risk-based test plan, set scope and data, run tests, and record results.
• Link each requirement/user story to test cases, runs, and defects to prove coverage.
• Log clear bugs with steps, impact, and priority; drive triage and follow through to fix/verify/close.
• Collaborate closely with development and DevOps teams to maintain seamless CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage GitLab and GitHub for version control and workflow management.
• Implement and execute automated tests using Cypress or Playwright frameworks.
• Maintain strong attention to detail and apply robust problem-solving skills.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proficiency in JavaScript for testing and scripting.
• Minimum 6+ years’ experience as a QA Automation Engineer, preferably on cloud platforms.
• Hands-on expertise with Cypress or Playwright.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and end-to-end testing principles.
• Ability to read and analyse server logs to quickly diagnose issues.
• Experience with GitLab and GitHub version control systems.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to work across teams.
• Use of collaboration tools such as Jira/Confluence/Slack to track work, share updates, and keep everyone aligned and create epics/stories, plan sprints, update boards, and report status/burndown.
• Validate features against acceptance criteria (Functional Requirements) and measure performance, security, reliability, and accessibility (Non Functional Requirements) against agreed SLAs.

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Familiarization with Security testing

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: Up to Rs600,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Islamabad: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• How many years of work experience do you have with Microsoft Azure?
• What is your level of proficiency in English?
• Have you built tests with Cypress or Playwright in production?
• Have you run blue/green or canary release tests with rollback checks?
• Do you read and use server logs/metrics/traces to debug issues?
• Do you link requirements/user stories to test cases and defects (traceability)?
• Do you test Functional and Non-Functional requirements (performance/security/reliability/accessibility)?
• Are you comfortable owning automated test suites in CI (pass/fail gates)?

Language:

• English (Required)

Location:

• Islamabad (Preferred)

Work Location: In person