Role Description Looking for a Junior QA Analyst/Tester with 5+ years of experience in functional, automation, API, and database testing. Strong hands-on expertise with Katalon, Postman, REST APIs, and automated test execution. - Develop, document, and execute functional and automation test cases - Perform API testing for RESTful APIs, Web Services, and Microservices using Postman - Create and maintain automated test scripts using Katalon and other automation tools - Identify, document, track, and report software defects - Execute database testing and validate backend data integrity - Collaborate with developers and cross-functional teams to resolve issues - Prepare test reports and maintain QA documentation - Support CI/CD testing processes and continuous quality improvements Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in Software QA and Testing - Strong experience in Functional/Manual Testing and Automation Testing - Hands-on experience with Katalon, Selenium, TestNG, or similar tools - Expertise in API testing using Postman or SoapUI - Experience with Database Testing and SQL queries - Good understanding of SDLC, QA methodologies, and defect lifecycle - Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills - Ability to work independently in a fast-paced remote environment Requirements - Minimum experience - 3 Years - Contract - 6 months - Payscale - $32/hour on 1099 - Candidates only from California to apply - IMMEDIATE HIRING @ California USA - Remote role

• Data testing • Mobile testing • Test automation with Playwright / selenium testing

• Join Newsquest Digital Media, the digital division of one of the UK’s leading local media publishers, and play a key role in ensuring the quality and performance of the backend systems that power our extensive network of trusted local news brands, helping to shape the future of digital journalism at scale. • Working as part of an agile, cross-functional team, you’ll be involved throughout the full product lifecycle, from initial requirements through to release. • This role combines manual and automated testing, with a strong focus on improving quality standards and helping to evolve our automated testing capability. • You’ll collaborate closely with product, UX, development and editorial teams to deliver high-quality, user-focused digital experiences at scale.

• Design and own the end-to-end QA strategy for the Conversational Banking Platform, covering functional, regression, performance, security, and AI-specific evaluation. • Build and maintain golden datasets, eval suites, and LLM-as-judge frameworks to validate conversational quality across intents, languages, and tenants. • Define the tenant onboarding QA gate, the certification checklist every new business unit must pass before going live. • Establish regression strategies for prompt changes, model upgrades, retrieval index updates, and guardrail policy changes. • Use Langfuse traces to drive evaluation: mine production failures, convert them into test cases, and close the loop with engineering. • Test NeMo Guardrails configurations against jailbreaks, prompt injection, off-topic drift, and false-positive over-blocking. • Validate governance and compliance behaviors: data residency, PII handling, regulated-product disclosures, and off-limits topics. • Build automated test harnesses for Spring AI services, including tool-calling validation, RAG groundedness, and integration with Cosmos DB and MongoDB data layers. • Partner with the Platform team on quality metrics, SLOs, and the platform eval scorecard. • Coach feature engineers and tenant teams on writing their own evals, making platform-grade quality self-service over time.