QA Engineer

Turnkey Africa•Lagos, FL

About The Position

The Entry Level QA Engineer supports testing of Evolve, Caava Group’s insurance management platform, which is built on Spring Boot services with Angular and Next.js frontends and used by AIICO for insurance operations. The role covers manual, exploratory, and automated testing of assigned APIs and user workflows, working with experienced engineers to identify defects, verify fixes, and build reliable test coverage. The engineer translates requirements into test cases, validates REST APIs and documentation, tests frontend workflows across browsers and screen sizes, and contributes foundational API and UI automation with review. They document defects and evidence, verify fixes, run regression tests, escalate blockers, and summarize test coverage and open defects to support release decisions. The role reports to the QA Lead and works with Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and Product. Progression to Associate QA Engineer depends on performance, consistent delivery, increased independence, test and evidence quality, and business need.

Requirements

A QA internship, coursework, personal projects, or equivalent practical testing experience.
Understanding of test cases, regression and exploratory testing, and the defect lifecycle.
Basic scripting ability in Python, TypeScript, or Java, with interest in test automation.
Basic REST, HTTP, and JSON knowledge, with exposure to Postman or a similar API tool.
Ability to document test results clearly and use evidence to explain defects.
Attention to detail and curiosity about how user workflows and systems behave.
Clear communication, follow-through on assigned work, and willingness to ask for help when blocked.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or Pytest through a project or internship.
Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, or OpenAPI/Swagger.
Basic SQL for data validation and an interest in insurance workflows.

Responsibilities

Translate requirements into test cases and test assigned REST APIs using Postman or similar tools.
Check API schemas, status codes, authentication, authorisation, error handling, and edge cases; maintain API collections and record results against agreed coverage.
Compare OpenAPI/Swagger documentation with API behaviour and work with engineers to close gaps.
Perform manual, exploratory, cross-browser, and responsive testing of Evolve workflows.
Test forms, validation, and user journeys, and reproduce UI and usability issues.
Build and maintain foundational API and UI automation in the team’s framework, with review.
Maintain safe test data and fixtures, help run tests in CI, and investigate failures.
Write reproducible defect reports with steps, expected and actual results, and evidence.
Verify fixes, run regression tests, and escalate blockers or quality risks early.
Summarise test coverage and open defects to support release decisions.