Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Celara is a rapidly growing enterprise software company focused on restaurant technology. They are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build and maintain robust test suites for web services and APIs, ensuring the reliability and performance of critical systems.
Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain automated API and service-level test cases using Karate and Postman
• Collaborate with QA and engineering teams to define test strategies for new features and services
• Develop and maintain regression and smoke test suites to validate service health and system stability
• Perform manual exploratory and validation testing for complex backend workflows or non-automatable areas
• Execute and design backend performance validations using tools like JMeter, k6, or equivalent
• Validate data integrity and perform root cause analysis using logs, service metrics, and backend databases
• Run tests in Dockerized environments or local dev environments; contribute to test environment setup and configuration
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration
• Contribute to continuous integration (CI) and continuous testing (CT) pipelines as part of the QA automation lifecycle
Skills
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with emphasis on backend systems and APIs
• Proven experience writing and maintaining tests in Karate Framework and Postman (including assertions, chaining, and scripting)
• Strong understanding of RESTful services, including headers, auth flows, status codes, and payload validation
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized test setups
• Experience reading logs and debugging backend systems
• Solid manual QA background and exploratory testing experience for service-level validation
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum and using tools like JIRA, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines
• Basic proficiency in reading code (e.g., Java, C#, JavaScript) to assist in triage and test alignment
• Familiarity with Point of Sale (POS) Systems
• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, k6, or Locust
• Knowledge of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Experience testing distributed or edge-deployed systems (e.g., POS terminals, IoT devices)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Domain expertise in restaurant/POS systems and related workflows
Company Overview
• Celara Labs helps companies build and scale with production-ready AI and technology talent. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, US, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.celaralabs.com.