Responsibilities

- Test Real-Time Interfaces: Work with engineering to ensure dashboards and frontend experiences remain stable and responsive under heavy loads.
- API Testing: Test REST APIs for correct status codes, response times, authentication behavior, and accurate payload delivery.
- Bug Detection & Tracking: Identify, reproduce, document, and track software bugs and UI/UX inconsistencies.
- Regression Testing: Collaborate with Core Engineering to verify bug fixes and ensure existing functionality isn't affected by recent changes.
- Frontend Validation: Test user flows across different browsers, screen sizes, and interaction states.
- Real-Time Testing: Help test WebSocket connections, live data updates, reconnection behavior, and real-time dashboard functionality.
- Caching & Auth Testing: Help map and test data-caching workflows, session handling, authentication loops, and protected routes.
- Test Automation: Assist in creating and improving automated tests using tools such as Playwright or similar frameworks.
- Quality Improvement: Work with developers to identify recurring issues and suggest practical improvements to product reliability.

Requirements

Technical Skills

- Basic understanding of the MERN stack — MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.




- Comfortable working with React-based web applications and understanding basic frontend workflows.
- Basic knowledge of REST APIs, methods, status codes, JSON payloads, and API responses.
- Familiarity with Postman, Playwright, Cypress, or similar testing tools is preferred.
- Basic understanding of Git/GitHub and standard development workflows.
- Understanding of browser DevTools, network requests, console errors, and basic debugging is a plus.
- Exposure to WebSockets, authentication, caching, or real-time applications is an advantage.

Mindset & Soft Skills

- Solid debugging instincts and the ability to think beyond the happy path.
- Excellent attention to detail when testing interfaces and user flows.
- A genuine interest in breaking software, finding edge cases, and uncovering hidden bugs.
- Ability to reproduce problems clearly and communicate them to engineers.
- Willingness to learn, experiment, and work closely with the Core Engineering team.
- Practical skills and portfolio projects are valued more than formal degrees.

Eligibility

- Citizenship: Indian Citizen.
- Language: Fluent Hindi; limited English proficiency is acceptable.
- Students, freshers, self-taught developers, and candidates with strong personal/portfolio projects are welcome.

📌 Software Engineer Internship (Kolkata)
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