QA Test Engineer-Contract to hire

As a Senior QA Engineer with 5 to 8 years of experience, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of a hardware inventory and monitoring platform built using Django, DRF, and Kubernetes. Your role will involve API testing, system-level validation, and infrastructure-oriented applications. Key Responsibilities: - Own the end-to-end test strategy and planning for the Inventory Management System and Redfish Exporter to ensure system integrity across environments. - Design and implement test cases for various components including REST APIs (CRUD, pagination, filtering), hardware data ingestion from Redfish API, integration with external systems like Vault, Entra (Azure AD), ServiceNow, Kubernetes deployment behaviors (via Helm), and data accuracy validation of inventory records. - Conduct functional, regression, system, and load testing as features are developed. - Design and execute load and stress testing scenarios to validate system performance under scale, automation of API and backend testing, and simulate concurrent load using tools like Locust, k6, or JMeter. - Collaborate with developers and DevOps on CI/CD test integration using GitHub Actions, enforce quality gates via SonarQube, and validate code coverage thresholds. Qualifications Required: - 5+ years of hands-on QA experience in backend systems, REST APIs, and infrastructure testing. - Proficiency in Python-based testing frameworks such as pytest, unittest, etc. - Hands-on experience with API testing tools like Postman, Swagger, Pytest, etc. - Experience with load testing frameworks (e.g., Locust, k6, JMeter) and CI/CD pipelines. - Strong understanding of Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes deployments, as well as knowledge of Prometheus/Grafana, metrics validation, and observability practices. - Familiarity with security testing, access control, and relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) for test validation. Nice To Have: - Exposure to Redfish APIs, server hardware lifecycle, or BMC tools (iLO, iDRAC). - Experience testing applications that interact with Vault, ServiceNow, or Azure AD (Entra). - Basic understanding of SonarQube, coverage analysis, and test reporting automation. - Prior experience working in SRE/DevOps-focused environments.,