Job description
Required Skills & Experience
- ### Job Description – QA Engineer
Publication Management System
### Role Overview
We are seeking a detail-oriented QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and usability of a modern publication management system. This role will be responsible for validating end-to-end functionality across user interfaces, APIs, integrations, and data workflows. The QA Engineer will work closely with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases throughout the development lifecycle.
### Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing.
- Validate end-to-end workflows including publication ingestion, metadata management, curation, reporting, and integrations.
- Perform manual testing across UI, API, and backend components.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for UI and API testing.
- Participate in requirements and design reviews to ensure testability and quality considerations.
- Identify, document, and track defects, and work closely with development teams for resolution.
- Validate data accuracy, integrity, and reporting outputs.
- Support testing across multiple environments and deployment phases.
- Ensure non-functional requirements such as usability, accessibility, performance, and security are addressed as needed.
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### What Success Looks Like
- High-quality releases with minimal production defects.
- Comprehensive test coverage across UI, APIs, and data layers.
- Early identification of issues through proactive testing.
- Strong collaboration with development and business teams.
- Continuous improvement of testing processes and automation coverage.
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### Nice-to-Have
- Experience with performance and load testing tools.
- Exposure to accessibility testing (WCAG).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test integration.
- Familiarity with security testing concepts and data governance requirements.
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### Preferred Qualifications
- Experience testing greenfield applications and phased delivery models.
- Familiarity with publication management systems, research information systems.
- Knowledge of scholarly metadata standards such as DOI, ORCID, MeSH, PubMed, or similar.
- Experience validating reports, dashboards, and analytics.
- Background in research, healthcare, academic, or life sciences environments.
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, or similar).
- Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail).
- Ability to analyze requirements and translate them into effective test coverage.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Proven experience as a QA Engineer testing enterprise-scale web applications.
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices.
- Experience testing:
- Web-based user interfaces
- RESTful APIs
- Database-driven applications
