QA Engineer

Zealogics.com • Memphis, TN

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Experience testing web-based user interfaces
• Experience testing RESTful APIs
• Experience testing Database-driven applications
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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).

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed