QA Technical Challenge at Payrails

Manual Testcases

TestCase #	Description	Steps
1	Validate Market News TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY endpoint	Step # Description 1 Enter the following parameters in Postman: 1- function:"TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY" 2- symbol:"AAPL" 3- interval:"1min" 4- apikey:"API_KEY" Send the HTTP request 3 Check that response code is 200 2 Check that response is successfull and contains all expected keys (check data structrue)
2	Validate Cryptocurrencies DIGITAL_CURRENCY_MONTHLY endpoint	Step # Description 1 Enter the following parameters in Postman: 1- function:"DIGITAL_CURRENCY_MONTHLY" 2- symbol:"BTC" 3- market:"EUR" 4- apikey:"API_KEY" Send the HTTP request 2 Check that response code is 200 3 Check that response is successfull and contains all expected keys (check data structrue)
3	The endpoint DIGITAL_CURRENCY_MONTHLY should return an error when the parameter "symbol" is missing	Step # Description 1 Enter the following parameters in Postman: 1- function:"DIGITAL_CURRENCY_MONTHLY" 2- market:"EUR" 3- apikey:"API_KEY" Send the HTTP request 2 Check that response code is 200 3 Check that response contains the following JSON key: "Error Message": "Invalid API call. Please retry or visit the documentation (https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/) for DIGITAL_CURRENCY_MONTHLY."

Automation

All the above tests were automated (check folder 'tests'):

| tests/
|---  alphavantage/
|------  api-digital-currency-monthly.spec.ts
|------  api-time-series-intraday.spec.ts

All data files are in the folder 'data':

| data/
|--- digital_currency.json
|--- intraday.json

Getting Started

To install packages for the tests by running:

npm i

Generate an API key

Set the environment variable

Create a .env file in the project folder containing the following:

TESTING_URL='https://www.alphavantage.co/query'
API_KEY='GENERATED_API_KEY'

Running unit test

To run tests for this project use:

npx playwright test

Github Actions

Tests can be also run in Github Actions

Modules used

• Node.js
• Playwright