Quality Assurance Engineer with German (Playwright)
QA engineer at NTT DATA joining a large-scale telecom project, automating end-to-end tests for legacy apps being modernized into web interfaces: writing Playwright/Cypress UI and REST API tests, validating results down to the database, and managing specs in Jira/Xray with Gherkin/BDD. Fluent German is mandatory; the role is on-site in Emilia Romagna, Italy.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Emilia Romagna, Italy
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a comparable field
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining UI and REST API test automation using Playwright or Cypress
- Experience in manual software testing, preferably in Agile environments (e.g., Scrum)
- Solid knowledge of testing methodologies, test management, and QA documentation
- Experience with test management tools such as Jira and Xray
- Experience writing and maintaining test specifications using Gherkin syntax
- Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail
- Fluent German
Nice to have
- Understanding of BDD concepts (hands-on experience with Cucumber is a plus)
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Full description
Who We Are
We don’t just test software, we elevate it! The QA & Agile Competence Center at NTT DATA Romania brings together specialists in test automation and quality engineering, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery across all projects. With strong expertise in UI & API automation, continuous testing, performance testing, and agile frameworks, we build scalable automation frameworks, integrate quality into CI/CD pipelines, and enable teams to deliver high‑quality releases at speed. In every industry we support, from Automotive to Finance and e‑Commerce, we turn quality into a competitive advantage.
Who We Are
We don’t just test software, we elevate it! The QA & Agile Competence Center at NTT DATA Romania brings together specialists in test automation and quality engineering, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery across all projects. With strong expertise in UI & API automation, continuous testing, performance testing, and agile frameworks, we build scalable automation frameworks, integrate quality into CI/CD pipelines, and enable teams to deliver high‑quality releases at speed. In every industry we support, from Automotive to Finance and e‑Commerce, we turn quality into a competitive advantage.
We’re looking for a highly engaged Quality Assurance Engineer with German to join one of our projects within a large‑scale telecommunications environment. The project aims to validate and ensure the quality of legacy applications as they are transformed into modern, scalable, and user‑centric web interfaces, delivering seamless digital experiences for millions of customers. This role offers the opportunity to work on a modern and technically complex project, where quality plays a key role in ensuring reliable and high‑performing solutions at scale. You will support the end‑to‑end testing of applications and ensure quality across the entire application flow, from UI and API interactions through to database validation. The role requires strong test automation experience, ideally with Playwright.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, develop and maintain automated end-to-end test scenarios for web applications.
- Perform automated testing across UI and API layers.
- Validate application behavior across the complete flow: UI/API → application/backend → database.
- Compare expected vs. actual results at database level.
- Validate the outcome of transactions and API calls directly in the database.
- Investigate defects and perform troubleshooting across UI, API and database layers.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes of failures and document defects.
- Collaborate with developers and other project stakeholders to ensure comprehensive test coverage.