Quality Assurance Engineer

AuctionNow is revolutionizing the shopping experience in Pakistan by shifting the focus from sellers to buyers. On this innovative platform, buyers post their needs, and verified sellers compete to offer the best prices. This reverse marketplace model emphasizes convenience, transparency, and cost savings, while fostering trust through seller verification and efficient matching of buyer requirements with competitive offers. The team is dedicated to creating a modern, user-friendly shopping environment that meets the evolving demands of its users.

Key Responsibilities
- Review product requirement documents (PRDs), user stories, and Figma designs before development begins, identifying gaps, unclear logic, and missing edge cases early in the process.
- Develop clear and comprehensive test cases and scenarios covering buyer flows, seller flows, the admin dashboard, and the website.
- Conduct in-depth testing of core auction behaviors, including bid placement, bid matching, outbid situations, auction closing conditions, timing, and simultaneous user actions.
- Test listing creation, editing, and deletion across various product categories, with special attention to category-specific fields and the new Property category.
- Validate chat functionality, reviews, notifications, analytics, and deal flows, including QR-based deal processes.
- Perform regression testing before each release to ensure new features do not disrupt existing functionality.
- Log detailed, actionable bugs in Jira with clear reproduction steps, expected versus actual results, severity ratings, and supporting evidence such as screenshots or recordings.
- Verify bug fixes thoroughly, retesting to confirm complete resolution and pushing back when issues are only partially addressed.
- Test across multiple devices, screen sizes, operating systems, and browsers to ensure consistent performance.
- Assess security basics, data validation, and permission handling to prevent unauthorized access or changes between users.
- Support go-live readiness by participating in release sign-offs and maintaining checklists.
- Collaborate with the team to address findings from internal and external audits.
- Introduce automation gradually, prioritizing critical user flows for efficiency improvements.

Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years’ hands-on experience in manual QA for web and mobile applications.
- Strong understanding of the software testing lifecycle, test design techniques, and bug lifecycle management.
- Experience testing APIs using tools such as Postman.
- Proficiency with Jira for bug tracking and writing clear, effective bug reports.
- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies and comfort working within sprint cycles.
- Basic SQL skills to query databases and verify backend data integrity.
- Solid knowledge of browser developer tools for debugging and investigation purposes.
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, with the confidence to respectfully challenge decisions when quality is at risk.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Experience working with marketplace, e-commerce, fintech, or auction-style products.
- Exposure to automation testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
- Experience testing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, with an understanding of common pitfalls.
- Familiarity with performance and basic security testing practices.
- Ability to interpret Figma designs and compare them against the implemented product.
- Experience working in startup environments or fast-paced, rapidly evolving product teams.

Why Join Us
Joining AuctionNow means you will have the opportunity to shape the QA process from the ground up rather than adapting to a rigid, pre-existing system. You will contribute directly to a product approaching its public launch and see your efforts make a tangible impact on user experience. There is also significant potential for growth into automation, QA leadership, or product quality ownership roles within the company.