Experienced QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

About the role

Flatrock is hiring an experienced QA Engineer in Colombo who combines manual and automated testing. The role covers functional, performance and security testing, and works within an Agile development lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases and strategies based on project requirements, risks and business priorities.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end and exploratory testing across web, API and mobile applications.
• Design, develop and maintain automated UI and API test suites (Playwright, Cypress or Selenium) integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Plan and run performance and load tests, analyse results, find bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
• Use AI tools and coding assistants to improve test generation and analysis, while validating their outputs.
• Identify, document, track and verify defects with clear reporting.
• Run smoke, regression and basic security tests to check release readiness.
• Work with developers, DevOps, Product Managers and stakeholders throughout Agile.

Required profile

• 5+ years of QA experience covering both manual and automated testing.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; ISTQB certification is an advantage.
• Nice to have: experience testing AI/LLM applications, mobile testing with Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, BrowserStack or Sauce Labs, and security testing with OWASP ZAP or Burp Suite.

Required skills

• Test automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress or Selenium) in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or Java.
• API testing (REST/GraphQL, Postman) and unit and integration testing.
• Performance and load testing with k6, JMeter, Gatling or similar.
• CI/CD pipelines, Git, Docker, SQL, Jira and test management tools such as TestRail or Qase.
• Ability to demonstrate automation frameworks, performance tests and AI-assisted testing from previous projects.