Senior QA Engineer (Manual + Test Automation Architecture)

Aspire Software

About the Role :
We re looking for a high-impact QA professional who can quickly learn the direct selling / MLM domain including commissions/incentives, reporting, eCommerce, and party planning workflows and help raise quality across a modern web + microservices platform. This role is hands-on with manual testing and test design, and will also help architect an automation approach (services and UI) as we mature our testing capabilities. We need someone who can challenge solutions early, find non-obvious risk, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps.

Responsibilities

Quality Ownership & Domain Testing

• Learn our product quickly and become fluent in our business workflows:
• direct selling/MLM (commissions, incentives, ranks/qualifications, genealogy, adjustments, payouts, auditability)
• reporting (operational, financial/statement-like outputs, audit trails, reconciliation expectations)
• eCommerce (catalog, cart/checkout, payments/refunds where applicable, order lifecycle, fulfillment states, discounts/promotions)
• party planning (host/party creation, invitations, guest orders, party credits/rewards, event timelines, post-party settlement)
• Build and maintain test plans covering functional flows, edge cases, regressions, and integration points.
• Proactively challenge requirements and designs, identifying risks, missing acceptance criteria, and unintended impacts before release.
• Define and execute manual test cycles for new features, hotfixes, and release candidates.

Microservices & Integration Testing (Including Messaging)

• Test API contracts and end-to-end workflows across microservices, including:
• request/response validation, status/error handling, idempotency, retries
• message-driven behavior via MassTransit (event publication/consumption, saga/workflow orchestration where applicable, eventual consistency)
• data correctness across MongoDB and SQL Server
• Validate integration workflows that cross domains (e.g., eCommerce order events feeding commission qualification; party orders rolling up to host rewards; reporting correctness across adjustments).

Automation Strategy (Nice to Have / Growth Area)

• Design an automation approach (framework choice, test pyramid strategy, CI/CD integration) for:
• service/API tests (contract/integration/regression)
• front-end tests (Vue UI regression and critical user journeys)
• Identify what should be automated first (high-value regressions, high-risk workflows, critical cross-service journeys).
• Collaborate with engineering/DevOps to integrate automation into pipelines and define stable test environments and test data strategies.

AI-Assisted Testing (Pragmatic Use)

• Use AI tools to accelerate test design: generate test ideas, edge cases, and negative scenarios from requirements and API contracts (with human review).
• Use AI to speed up investigation: summarize logs/message traces, highlight suspicious patterns, and propose focused repro steps.
• Use AI to assist with maintenance tasks: draft/normalize test cases, improve bug report clarity, and help create lightweight synthetic test data while validating outputs and protecting sensitive information.

Documentation & Process

• Create and maintain clear documentation for:
• test cases, suites, and traceability to requirements
• test execution procedures and release sign-off checklists
• bug reporting standards (repro steps, expected vs actual, logs, screenshots, message traces)
• Help improve QA practices: triage, severity definitions, regression scope, and quality gates.