📢 Job Overview
Purplebox is hiring QA Engineers with 2–5 years of experience for a hybrid role in Noida. The opportunity involves testing products serving the US paving and construction industry, with responsibilities spanning manual testing, automation, web, mobile, API, and database testing. Immediate joiners are preferred, making this an opportunity worth considering for QA professionals who can join quickly. Purplebox’s public hiring activity also describes QA roles involving web, mobile, API, manual and automation testing, with Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Playwright, SQL, and JIRA.
📌 Job Details
🏢 Company: Purplebox
💼 Role: QA Engineer
📊 Experience: 2–5 Years
📍 Location: Noida
🏢 Work Mode: Hybrid
🧪 Testing: Manual + Automation
🌐 Platforms: Web + Mobile + API
🛠️ Tools: Selenium, Playwright, Appium, RestAssured, JIRA
🗄️ Database: SQL
🤖 Bonus: AI-assisted QA experience
⚡ Joining: Immediate Joiners Preferred
📩 Apply: sandali@purplebox.co.in
🏢 About Purplebox
Purplebox is a Noida-based staffing and recruiting company focused on building teams for organizations across areas including Enterprise, SaaS, Ecommerce, Mobile, and HFT. Its LinkedIn profile describes expertise in recruiting, talent acquisition, hiring, and technical hiring, with a particular focus on deep-tech and leadership hiring.
The QA opportunity is particularly interesting because the hiring description connects the work to products serving the US paving and construction industry. This can expose QA professionals to domain-specific workflows rather than only generic web application testing.
🌟 Why This Role Is Good for Experience?
This position offers a broad QA scope instead of restricting the engineer to manual regression testing. You can work across multiple layers of the product:
🔍 Functional and regression testing
🌐 Web application testing
📱 Mobile testing
🔌 API testing
🗄️ SQL/database validation
🤖 UI automation
🧪 Test-case design and execution
🐛 Defect identification and reporting
🔄 Integration and end-to-end validation
🚀 Release-quality activities
🧠 Skills Required
Candidates should prepare around the following areas:
✅ Manual testing fundamentals
✅ Functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration and exploratory testing
✅ STLC and defect life cycle
✅ Test-case and test-scenario design
✅ Web application testing
✅ Mobile application testing
✅ API testing and HTTP concepts
✅ SQL queries and database validation
✅ JIRA or similar defect-management tools
✅ Selenium or Playwright automation
✅ Appium fundamentals
✅ RestAssured/API automation
✅ Agile/Scrum methodology
⭐ Java, JavaScript or TypeScript can strengthen automation profiles
⭐ CI/CD knowledge is useful for automation execution
🎯 Preparation Tips for Purplebox
Make your preparation multi-platform, because this JD specifically combines web, mobile and API testing.
Take a sample construction-management web application and design a complete QA strategy. Cover login, project creation, user permissions, estimates, documents, notifications, search, filters and role-based workflows. Then identify which scenarios should be automated and which are better handled manually.
For Playwright/Selenium, revise locators, waits, page-object models, assertions, handling dynamic elements, screenshots, test data and parallel execution.
For Appium, understand mobile capabilities, locators, gestures, app installation, device/emulator interaction and differences between web and mobile testing.
For RestAssured, practice API requests, authentication, status-code validation, JSON response assertions, request parameters and chaining API calls. SQL preparation should include JOINs, GROUP BY, subqueries, aggregation and data validation.
Finally, prepare one real example where you used automation or AI assistance to reduce repetitive QA work. Be ready to explain what the AI tool generated, what you verified manually, and how you ensured the resulting tests were reliable.
💬 Expected Interview Rounds
Round 1 – Recruiter Screening: Experience, current location, Noida/hybrid availability, notice period, current compensation and immediate-joining availability.
Round 2 – QA Technical Interview: Manual testing, STLC, defect life cycle, test scenarios, regression strategy, web/mobile testing, API testing, SQL and JIRA.
Round 3 – Automation/Practical Discussion: Selenium/Playwright, Appium, RestAssured, framework design, debugging failed automation tests and selecting cases for automation.
Round 4 – Client/Final Discussion: Because Purplebox recruits for client organizations, the final stage may involve discussion around the specific product/domain, communication, problem-solving and collaboration. This should be confirmed with the recruiter for the particular opening.
💰 Salary Range
The hiring post does not disclose a Purplebox-specific salary range for this position. As a market reference, Glassdoor currently reports Noida Quality Assurance compensation around ₹4–8 LPA base pay, with an average around ₹5 LPA, while its Quality Assurance Analyst data shows approximately ₹4–9 LPA. These are market-level figures, not a confirmed Purplebox offer, and actual compensation can vary significantly by experience and automation skills.
📄 Resume Tips
📌 Put Manual + Automation QA prominently in your headline.
📌 Mention specific experience with Selenium, Playwright, Appium or RestAssured.
📌 Separate Web, Mobile and API testing experience clearly.
📌 Include SQL/database validation examples.
📌 Quantify automation impact where possible, such as regression coverage or execution-time reduction.
📌 Mention JIRA and Agile/Scrum experience.
📌 Add AI-assisted QA tools only if you have genuinely used them.
📌 Highlight experience testing SaaS, integrations or complex business workflows.
📌 Clearly state your notice period/availability, especially if you can join immediately.
📩 How to Apply
📩sandali@purplebox.co.in
Interested candidates can share their updated resume with sandali@purplebox.co.in or contact the recruiter through the original hiring post. Purplebox also maintains an official careers page where candidates can submit their details and resume.
Email Subject: QA Engineer – Noida – 2–5 Years
⚡ Immediate joiners should mention their availability clearly in the email. Candidates should also confirm the exact client/product, hybrid schedule, compensation, interview process and employment terms with the recruiter before proceeding.
🚀 If you have 2–5 years of QA experience and want exposure across web, mobile, API, SQL and automation, this Purplebox opening offers a broad testing stack with additional exposure to AI-assisted QA.
