Technical QA Associate

About the role

The Technical QA Associate acts as the gatekeeper of deployment stability for UJV’s luxury travel platform. You will validate software quality, manage test‑environment readiness, and streamline data setup to reduce release failures and free senior engineers to focus on architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Execute functional test plans to ensure new features meet TPM requirements.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge‑case bugs that automated tools may miss.
• Log defects in Jira with detailed technical information and collaborate with developers to verify fixes.
• Configure user data and system states in admin portals to prepare test environments.
• Work with engineers to define automated data‑seeder requirements, turning manual setups into one‑click scripts.
• Conduct daily health checks on testing environments to guarantee consistency.
• Provide rapid feedback to TPMs for Go/No‑Go release decisions.
• Maintain test documentation and follow the defect‑reporting workflow.
• Identify manual test scenarios suitable for future automation.

Required profile

• 0–2 years of experience in a technical or analytical role such as testing, support, or product‑adjacent positions.
• Comfortable acting as a “power‑user” of complex software systems and admin tools.
• Strong organizational abilities and attention to detail when handling test data.

Required skills

• Postman (API testing)
• SQL (basic query writing)
• Understanding of API fundamentals
• Jira (defect tracking)