QA Test Engineer: VB.NET & Web API Specialist

Peraton; Cranston (RI); On-site; USD 66,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in Cranston, RI seeks a versatile QA Test Engineer to ensure quality of legacy VB.NET desktop apps and modern web-based RESTful services. You will balance testing across Windows Forms/WPF environments with API validation and leverage tools like Postman and SoapUI to accelerate automation maturity.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in QA, connaissent VB.NET, RESTful APIs, and SQL data validation, and thrive in an Agile/Scrum setting with strong analytic and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 2 years’ experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
• 2+ years of Software Quality Assurance (manual and automated).
• Proven experience testing VB.NET applications (Windows Forms, WPF) and legacy codebases.
• Strong background in functional and system testing for modern, cloud-hosted web apps.
• Proficiency in SQL queries for data validation.
• Extensive hands-on experience using Postman, SoapUI, or similar API tools.
• Strong proficiency in testing RESTful APIs (JSON, HTTP, auth, endpoints).
• Experience with automated API testing frameworks (RestAssured, Newman, Postman Collections).

Responsibilities

• End-to-end, functional, regression, and integration testing on VB.NET desktop environments and modern web apps.
• Design, write, and execute tests for backend RESTful APIs, checking data and security edge cases.
• Evaluate and implement modern testing tools to optimize test generation and automation.
• Identify, document, and track defects to resolution using Jira with developers.
• Author detailed test cases, matrices, and user-acceptance criteria from technical docs.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to plan and execute testing activities.

Skills

VB.NET testing

API testing

SQL queries

Postman/SoapUI

RESTful APIs

Automation testing

Jira

Agile Scrum

Windows Forms/WPF

Data validation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

RestAssured

Newman

Job description

Peraton in Cranston, RI seeks a versatile QA Test Engineer to ensure quality of legacy VB.NET desktop apps and modern web-based RESTful services. You will balance testing across Windows Forms/WPF environments with API validation and leverage tools like Postman and SoapUI to accelerate automation maturity.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in QA, connaissent VB.NET, RESTful APIs, and SQL data validation, and thrive in an Agile/Scrum setting with strong analytic and communication skills.