Quality Assurance (Automation Test Engineer)

Herox; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Herox is seeking a QA Engineer to own quality across our web application—from feature testing to full release sign-off. You’ll be the last line of defense before code reaches users, collaborating with engineering and product to catch issues early and define what “done” means.

The role emphasizes test planning, API validation, data checks in SQL, and building a robust QC process as the team scales. A hands-on, detail-oriented tester will thrive here.

Qualifications

• 1-3+ years of hands-on QA/testing experience on a web application.
• Strong attention to detail and a habit of thinking in edge cases and failure modes.
• Comfortable navigating web apps and browser dev tools (Network, Console, Application/Storage tabs).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs — methods, status codes, request/response validation, auth headers.
• Working knowledge of SQL (comfortable writing SELECT/JOIN queries to verify data independently).
• Clear written communication — bug reports and test plans that a developer or PM can act on without back-and-forth.

Responsibilities

• Design test cases and test plans for new features, covering happy paths, edge cases, and negative scenarios.
• Execute manual test passes across UI flows, forms, data tables, filters, and role-based permissions.
• Own end-to-end regression testing before each release and define/enforce release sign-off criteria.

Skills

QA testing

Web applications

Attention to detail

REST APIs

SQL

Bug reporting

Communication

Tools

Postman

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

About the role

We're looking for a QA Engineer to own quality across our web application from individual

feature testing to full release sign-off. You'll be the

last line of defense before code reaches users, working closely with engineering and product

to catch issues early, define what "done" actually

means, and help the team ship with confidence.

A day in this role looks like

• Reviewing a new feature's spec/ticket and writing test cases before development even finishes
• Testing a freshly merged feature across different roles/permissions and edge-case inputs.
• Running a regression pass ahead of a release and signing off (or flagging blockers).
• Filing a bug with clear repro steps, then re-verifying the fix once it's deployed.
• Occasionally digging into the database to confirm a data issue is a UI bug vs. a backend one.

Responsibilities

Test planning & execution

• Design test cases and test plans for new features, covering happy paths, edge cases, and negative scenarios.
• Execute manual test passes across UI flows, forms, data tables, filters, and role-based permissions.
• Own end-to-end regression testing before each release and define/enforce release sign-off criteria.

Bug tracking

• Log clear, reproducible bug reports (steps to reproduce, expected vs. actual, environment, screenshots/console logs/network traces).
• Triage and prioritize bugs with engineering and product based on severity/impact.
• Re-verify fixes and close the loop before tickets are marked resolved.

API & data validation

• Validate API behavior using Postman or similar tools request/response shapes, status codes, error handling, auth/permission boundaries.
• Cross-check data changes against the backend/database (via SQL) to confirm root cause when a UI issue could originate from bad data.

Process & coverage

• Identify gaps in test coverage across the product and proactively propose what needs testing.
• Maintain a shared test-case repository so testing isn't tribal knowledge.
• Flag recurring bug patterns that point to a process or code-quality issue, not just a one-off fix.

Must-have qualifications

• 1-3+ years of hands-on QA/testing experience on a web application.
• Strong attention to detail and a habit of thinking in edge cases and failure modes.
• Comfortable navigating web apps and browser dev tools (Network, Console, Application/Storage tabs).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs — methods, status codes, request/response validation, auth headers.
• Working knowledge of SQL (comfortable writing SELECT/JOIN queries to verify data independently).
• Clear written communication — bug reports and test plans that a developer or PM can act on without back-and-forth.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with API testing tools beyond basics — Postman collections, environments, scripted assertions.
• Exposure to automated testing frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress) or interest in building this out.
• Familiarity with ticket trackers (Jira, Linear) and CI/CD pipelines (tests gating deploys).
• Experience owning QA for a full release cycle, not just individual tickets.
• Basic scripting ability (Python/JS) for quick data checks or test utilities.

What we offer

• Full-time role with real ownership of product quality, not just ticket execution.
• Direct collaboration with engineering and product — you'll influence what gets built, not just test what already was.
• Room to grow the QA function as the team scales, including introducing test automation if you want to build that muscle.
• A codebase and team that takes bug reports seriously — you won't be shouting into the void.