Senior QA Engineer (JOB013)

Role - Senior QA Engineer JOB ID - JOB013 Job Location: New Town, Kolkata Position Overview Insightstap is seeking a Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation) with 5+ years of experience to join our team in Kolkata, West Bengal . You will ensure the quality of full-stack platforms built with FastAPI (backend) and Next.js (frontend) by designing robust test infrastructure and catching issues before production. Key Responsibilities Manual Testing: Perform functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and UAT across web apps and API layers. Automation Testing: Write and maintain E2E UI automated test scripts and automated API tests. API Validation: Validate contracts, schemas, status codes, and authentication flows against Pydantic models. Defect Management: Log and track bugs with clear reproduction steps and severity classifications. CI/CD & DevOps: Support release processes (smoke/sanity tests) and contribute to integrated test pipelines. Skills Required Must-Have Experience: 5+ years of hands-on manual and automation web testing. UI Automation: Proficiency in Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright . API Testing: Experience with Postman, pytest , or similar REST client tools. Databases & Tools: Familiarity with SQL (PostgreSQL) , Git, and Jira/Linear/Notion. Good-to-Have Experience testing Next.js/React frontends and FastAPI backends. Performance/load testing ( k6, Locust, JMeter ). CI/CD pipeline integration ( GitHub Actions ) and Docker environments.