QA Engineer(Central Team)

PlaySimple Games; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PlaySimple Games in Bengaluru is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to design and execute test plans for backend services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, and front-end applications. The role emphasizes data integrity, regression coverage, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

You will validate data flows end-to-end, investigate issues with SQL, logs, and APIs, and contribute to automated testing.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals including planning and RCA.
• Hands-on API testing with REST APIs, authentication, and validation.
• Good SQL skills for data validation and reconciliation.
• Experience in backend and integration testing across services and logs.
• Data validation including schema checks and source-to-target reconciliation.
• Hands-on test automation and maintaining automated test suites.
• Ability to validate end-to-end workflows across APIs, databases, backend, and UI.
• Strong debugging using logs to identify issues and root causes.
• Good communication, ownership, and collaboration skills.

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.

Skills

API testing

SQL proficiency

End-to-end testing

Test automation

Backend services

Log analysis

Collaboration

Job description

Requirements

• 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.

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.

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.