QA Engineer – Automation & Performance Testing

About the role

Beacon Red is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure delivery of high‑quality, secure, and reliable software for mission‑critical products. The role focuses on designing, executing, and automating functional, performance and security test cases across UI and API layers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, maintain and execute functional, regression, integration, API and UI test cases.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using approved frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).
• Identify, document, triage and perform root‑cause analysis of defects.
• Participate in planning, backlog grooming and requirement reviews to ensure testability.
• Validate that features meet acceptance criteria, non‑functional requirements and internal quality standards before release.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Conduct smoke, sanity and release validation tests for each deployment.
• Execute performance, load and security testing scenarios as needed.
• Maintain QA documentation such as test plans, reports and regression suites.
• Support continuous improvement of testing processes, automation coverage and QA tooling.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or a related field.
• 5–7 years of QA/testing experience in software development, preferably with Python or Golang.
• ISTQB Foundation certification or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and best practices.

Required skills

• Playwright
• Locust
• GitHub Actions
• Cypress
• Rest Assured
• Golang
• SQL
• Jenkins
• Git
• JMeter
• OWASP Top 10
• GitLab
• Selenium
• Postman
• Python