Required Skills & Experience

• Job Description – QA EngineerPublication 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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