QA Engineer at CYNET SYSTEMS — NeverHard

Job Overview: We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of a SaaS platform built on REST APIs, service-oriented architecture, and cloud-native backend services. This is a hybrid QA role combining manual exploratory testing, backend/API validation, UI workflow testing, Playwright automation, performance/load testing, and release validation across multiple environments. Requirement/Must Have: 5+ years of QA engineering experience with SaaS platforms, REST APIs, distributed systems, or microservices. Hands-on Playwright automation experience, including UI workflow automation and API validation. Experience with Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, CI/CD validation, release testing, test data management, and defect triage. Understanding of performance/load testing concepts such as throughput, latency, concurrency, saturation, and error rates. Strong communication skills and ability to clearly document defects, risks, test results, and release recommendations. Responsibilities: Design and execute test strategies across REST APIs, backend services, UI workflows, and end-to-end SaaS scenarios. Build and maintain Playwright-based automation for both UI workflow testing and API-level validation. Perform functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, integration, release-readiness, and defect validation testing. Manage test cases, execution results, traceability, and defects using Jira and Zephyr. Plan and execute performance/load tests and analyze logs, metrics, API responses, and service behavior with engineering and SRE teams. Nice to Have: k6, Locust, JMeter, Gatling, AWS-hosted systems, PostgreSQL, Redis, API Gateway, ECS, EC2, CloudWatch, observability tools, AI-assisted testing tools, SIP/VoIP or real-time communications testing. Skills: Playwright. REST APIs. Postman. Swagger/OpenAPI. Jira. Zephyr. CI/CD. AWS. log analysis. performance testing. SaaS environments. distributed services.