QA Automation Intern

QA Automation Intern — Valura AI

Location: Remote / Hybrid Type: Internship Experience: Fresher / Internship Preferred Graduation: 2027–2028

About Valura AI

Valura AI is building AI-powered financial technology products with web and mobile applications, APIs, and backend services.

We are looking for a QA Automation Intern who wants to build strong hands-on experience in modern test automation, API testing, performance testing, and CI/CD.

This role is highly automation-focused and is ideal for a student who wants to build a career in QA Automation / SDET.

Role Overview

As a QA Automation Intern, you will work across the complete Valura AI testing workflow:

Developer Code → Automated Tests → API Validation → Web & Mobile Automation → Performance Testing → CI/CD → Staging → Release Validation

You will work closely with developers and product teams to identify issues early and continuously improve automated test coverage.

Key Responsibilities

1. Web Automation

· Develop and maintain automated web test cases using Playwright.

· Automate critical end-to-end user journeys.

· Automate positive, negative, validation, and edge-case scenarios.

· Build reusable automation components and utilities.

· Work with selectors, assertions, fixtures, test data, and page objects.

· Execute cross-browser testing.

· Analyze automation failures and identify whether the issue is in the application, test, environment, or test data.

· Maintain and improve the web regression suite.

2. Mobile Automation

· Work on automation testing for Valura AI mobile applications.

· Develop automated mobile test scenarios for critical user workflows.

· Validate UI, navigation, forms, validations, API integrations, and error scenarios.

· Learn and work with mobile automation tools/frameworks as required by the product.

· Execute mobile regression tests across supported devices and environments.

· Identify device-specific and platform-specific issues.

3. API Automation

· Build automated API test cases for backend services.

· Validate REST APIs, request/response payloads, status codes, headers, authentication, and error handling.

· Automate positive and negative API scenarios.

· Validate API response data against expected business rules.

· Integrate API tests with the overall regression suite.

· Use tools/frameworks such as Playwright API testing, Postman, or equivalent automation frameworks.

· Use curl for API debugging and troubleshooting.

4. Performance Testing

· Assist in creating and executing performance tests for APIs and critical application workflows.

· Learn concepts such as:

· Load testing

· Stress testing

· Response time

· Throughput

· Concurrent users

· Error rate

· Identify performance bottlenecks and unusual response-time behavior.

· Analyze performance test results and communicate findings to the engineering team.

· Help establish basic performance checks as part of the QA pipeline.

5. CI/CD & Test Automation Pipeline

· Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

· Run automated web, mobile, and API tests as part of deployment workflows.

· Understand automated quality gates.

· Investigate failed CI/CD test runs.

· Generate and review test reports.

· Help configure automated regression execution for staging environments.

· Understand the testing flow from code commit → build → automated tests → deployment → validation.

6. Test Framework & Code Quality

· Write clean, maintainable, and reusable automation code.

· Follow basic coding and testing best practices.

· Use Git/GitHub for version control.

· Participate in code reviews for test automation.

· Maintain test data and automation configurations.

· Continuously improve test stability and reduce flaky tests.

7. Defect Identification

Although this is an automation-focused role, you will also be expected to:

· Investigate automation failures.

· Reproduce defects manually when required.

· Identify the root cause of failures.

· Report bugs with clear reproduction steps.

· Verify bug fixes.

· Add automated coverage for important bugs to prevent regression.

Technical Skills

Must Have

· Basic programming knowledge in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or a similar language.

· Strong interest in test automation.

· Basic understanding of software testing concepts.

· Basic understanding of APIs and HTTP.

· Familiarity with Git.

· Willingness to learn Playwright and automation frameworks.

· Good logical and debugging skills.

Preferred

· Playwright

· JavaScript / TypeScript

· Playwright API testing

· Postman

· REST APIs

· Git/GitHub

· CI/CD

· GitHub Actions or similar CI tools

· Mobile automation experience

· Performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or equivalent

· SQL basics

· Browser DevTools

· curl

What You Will Work On

You will get hands-on exposure to:

· Web automation using Playwright

· Mobile application automation

· API automation

· End-to-end testing

· Regression automation

· Performance testing

· CI/CD automation

· Automated quality gates

· Test reporting

· Git/GitHub

· Debugging and root-cause analysis

· Staging and release validation

What We Expect From You

We are not looking for someone who already knows every tool.

We are looking for someone who can:

· Learn automation quickly.

· Write and understand basic code.

· Think beyond happy-path testing.

· Debug failures instead of simply marking tests as failed.

· Understand how frontend, mobile, API, and backend systems interact.

· Take ownership of assigned automation tasks.

· Work closely with developers.

· Continuously improve test coverage and test reliability.

Career Growth

This internship is designed as a pathway toward a QA Automation / SDET role.

The expected progression is:

Manual Testing Fundamentals → Web Automation → API Automation → Mobile Automation → Performance Testing → CI/CD Integration → Advanced QA Automation / SDET

Based on performance, learning ability, ownership, and contribution to the automation framework, strong performers may be considered for a long-term opportunity with Valura AI.

Who Should Apply?

Students graduating in 2027–2028 who are interested in building a career in:

· QA Automation

· SDET

· Software Engineering in Test

· Test Framework Development

· Quality Engineering

If you enjoy coding, debugging, breaking applications, and figuring out why something doesn't work, this role is for you.