The Role
Designs and executes tests for backend services, APIs, databases, data pipelines, and frontend applications. Validates data quality and transformations, maintains automated regression coverage, investigates issues using SQL, logs, APIs, and monitoring tools, and collaborates with developers, data engineers, Product, and stakeholders. Owns QA for assigned modules and supports release sign-off.
Summary Generated by Built In
Must-Have Skills
- Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, test planning, test case design, regression testing, defect management, and RCA.
- Hands-on experience with API testing, including REST APIs, authentication, request/response validation, error handling, and integrations.
- Good SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation, and issue investigation.
- Experience in backend and integration testing, including services, logs, and system-to-system flows.
- Experience with data validation, including schema validation, data-quality checks, and source-to-target reconciliation.
- Hands-on experience with test automation and maintaining automated test suites.
- Ability to understand and validate end-to-end workflows across APIs, databases, backend services, and UI.
- Experience using logs and debugging information to identify and troubleshoot issues.
- Good communication, ownership, and collaboration skills.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience testing ETL processes, data pipelines, or data-intensive applications.
- Exposure to distributed or microservice-based backend systems.
- Experience with frontend testing, including UI, functional, regression, and cross-browser testing.
- Basic understanding of performance, load, and stress testing.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools, dashboards, and metrics.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build pipelines.
- Experience working with cloud-based data platforms or services.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute test scenarios for backend services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, and frontend applications.
- Validate data correctness, completeness, consistency, and transformations across systems.
- Build and maintain automated regression coverage for critical workflows.
- Investigate issues using SQL, logs, APIs, and monitoring tools.
- Work closely with developers, data engineers, Product, and other stakeholders to identify risks and improve quality.
- Independently own QA for assigned modules or components and support release sign-off.
Skills Required
- Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, test planning, test case design, regression testing, defect management, and root cause analysis
- Hands-on experience with API testing, including REST APIs, authentication, request and response validation, error handling, and integrations
- Good SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation, and issue investigation
- Experience with backend and integration testing, including services, logs, and system-to-system flows
- Experience with data validation, including schema validation, data-quality checks, and source-to-target reconciliation
- Hands-on experience with test automation and maintaining automated test suites
- Ability to understand and validate end-to-end workflows across APIs, databases, backend services, and user interfaces
- Experience using logs and debugging information to identify and troubleshoot issues
- Good communication, ownership, and collaboration skills
- Experience testing ETL processes, data pipelines, or data-intensive applications
- Exposure to distributed or microservice-based backend systems
- Experience with frontend testing, including UI, functional, regression, and cross-browser testing
- Basic understanding of performance, load, and stress testing
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools, dashboards, and metrics
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build pipelines
- Experience working with cloud-based data platforms or services
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The Company
What We Do
We are one of India’s most exciting & fast-growing mobile gaming companies. Founded in 2014, and creating a global mobile gaming landscape in partnership with Modern Times Group (MTG), our vision is to create simple, impactful casual game experiences at a massive scale. Since our inception, we have built a worldwide network of chart-topping games, and powerful tech & analytics infrastructure to turbocharge their growth. Our product portfolio consists of evergreen hits like Daily Themed Crossword, WordTrip, WordJam, WordWars, WordTrek and Solitaire. Visit us at www.playsimple.in to know more. Recent news about PlaySimple: https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/02/swedish- gaming-giant-acquires-indiaplaysimple-for-360-million/
