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Role Description

Job Title: QA & Production Validation Engineer - Azure Integration Platform

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled QA & Production Validation Engineer to support the migration of ESB/ESQL applications to the .Net/Azure ecosystem. This role is critical to ensuring the quality, reliability, and observability of applications deployed across Azure AKS, Azure APIM, Azure Service Bus, Azure SQL, MongoDB, IBM MQ, Azure Storage, and integrated monitoring platforms such as DataDog and Application Insights.

The ideal candidate will work closely with developers, architects, and DevOps engineers to validate migrated applications, accelerate deployment cycles, and continuously monitor productionized workloads for stability and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• QA & Functional Validation of Migrated Applications
• Validate end to end functionality of applications migrated from ESB/ESQL to Azure microservices and integration components.
• Review and understand integration flows involving Service Bus, APIM, AKS microservices, Azure SQL, MongoDB, IBM MQ, and Storage Accounts.
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and regression suites tailored to cloud native architectures.
• Validate API behavior using Postman collections and automated API testing frameworks.
• Verify message flows across queues, topics, and event-driven components.
• Ensure data integrity across Azure SQL, MongoDB, and legacy data sources.
• Validate logging, telemetry, and distributed tracing across DataDog and Application Insights.
• Ensure applications meet SLAs for latency, throughput, and reliability.
• Validate deployments across Dev, QA, UAT, Pre Prod, and Prod environments.
• Work with DevOps teams to verify CI/CD pipelines, deployment manifests, and configuration consistency.
• Perform smoke testing and sanity checks after each deployment.
• Provide go/no go recommendations for production releases.
• Identify anomalies, performance degradation, or integration failures.
• Collaborate with developers and SRE/DevOps teams to troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain detailed test documentation, validation checklists, and release notes.
• Create reusable Postman/Bruno collections, test scripts, and validation frameworks.
• Contribute to quality standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Strong experience testing integration-heavy applications (ESB, microservices, APIs).
• Hands-on experience with Azure components:
• Azure Functions, Azure LogicApps, Rest Apis
• Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage accounts
• Azure APIM, Azure AKS
• Azure SQL, Mongodb
• Azure Monitor/Application Insights
• Familiarity with DataDog dashboards, logs, and ing.
• Experience validating message flows in IBM MQ.
• Strong API testing skills using Postman or similar tools.
• Understanding of microservices, containers, and Kubernetes concepts.
• Ability to read logs, traces, and telemetry to identify issues.
• SQL proficiency for data validation (Azure SQL, MongoDB queries).
  

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving mindset.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, multi team environment.
• Proactive, detail oriented, and comfortable owning quality end to end.
  
  

Relevant Experience

(6-8 years)

Skills

api testing,azure,azure aks,azure service bus,azure apim,azure sql,ibm mq,mongodb,azure storage,datadog Click on Apply to know more.