The Opportunity

About Juniper Square Our mission is to unlock the full potential of private markets. Privately owned assets like commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital make up half of our financial ecosystem yet remain inaccessible to most people. We are digitizing these markets, and as a result, bringing efficiency, transparency, and access to one of the most productive corners of our financial ecosystem. If you care about making the world a better place by making markets work better through technology – all while contributing as a member of a values-driven organization – we want to hear from you.

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.

About Your Role As a QA Automation Engineer II at Juniper Square, you will collaborate with the product and engineering teams to help define and drive our manual and automation testing efforts. You must be detail oriented, passionate about product quality, and a strong advocate for the end user experience.

What You’ll Do

Review technical design documents and API specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI) to provide meaningful feedback on system testability, edge cases, and potential integration bottlenecks.
Work closely with the development(s) team to identify test cases that can be automated for new feature releases.
Design and execute complex test cases targeting backend systems, focusing on data integrity, distributed systems logic, and asynchronous processing.
API Excellence: Develop comprehensive test suites for RESTful (or gRPC/GraphQL) APIs, validating schema compliance, status codes, payload accuracy, and authentication/authorization protocols.
Maintain and extend backend automation frameworks, preferably, Locust or Pytest, RestAssured.
Contribute to your development team on best practices, processes and problem-solving
Develop automated test result reports and highlight any potential quality risks
Identify, troubleshoot, and track bugs to resolution
Be an advocate for automation: Contribute to manual efforts and partner with the engineering team to provide recommendations on how to decrease efforts in manual testing.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience: 4-6 years in Software Quality Assurance, with strong expertise in testing with a proven track record of testing distributed systems, microservices, and backend APIs..
Test Automation: Skilled in designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks specifically for backend services.
Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably, Python.
API Testing: Hands-on experience in both manual and automated testing of REST and/or GraphQL APIs using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or Locust.
CI/CD and SDLC: Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software development lifecycle concepts, including code review practices, code coverage analysis, continuous testing, and delivery.
Test Process: Experience in creating comprehensive test plans at the service plan, authoring test cases, executing tests, and adhering to QA best practices.
Databases: Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
Cloud and Deployment: Knowledge of cloud environments (e.g., AWS) and experience with application deployments, including knowledge of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
Tools and Systems: Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git), test management tools (e.g., TestRail), and issue-tracking platforms (e.g., Jira).
Soft Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in fast-paced Agile development teams with minimal supervision.

Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.