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.