Manual QA Engineer

A Day in the Life:

• Collaborate with developers and product managers to understand feature requirements.
• Review feature specifications and design detailed test cases.
• Perform manual tests on payment gateway systems, including transaction flows and API validations.
• Identify, log, and track defects using tools like JIRA and prioritize them for resolution.
• Conduct regression testing to ensure system stability after updates.
• Participate in team discussions to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Document test results and prepare for upcoming sprint activities.

Key Qualifications and Skills:

• 5 - 7 years of QA experience, with at least 3 years in payment gateways, fintech, or banking systems.
• Strong knowledge of payment processing.
• Experience with REST/SOAP APIs, webhooks, and encryption (TLS, AES, RSA). Familiarity with PCI-DSS, PSD2, GDPR, and AML/KYC processes.
• Proficiency in SQL for database validation (transaction logs, ledger entries).
• Hands-on experience with JMeter, Postman, Selenium, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of blockchain-based payouts (optional but a plus).

Key Responsibilities:

1. Test Planning & Strategy: Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for payment processing, refunds, chargebacks, settlements, and fraud detection. Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, PSD2, and other financial regulations.
2. Functional & Integration Testing: Validate API integrations with banks, PSPs (Payment Service Providers) and third-party vendors. Test transaction flows (success, failure, retries, timeouts) and edge cases.
3. Security & Compliance Testing: Perform penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and data encryption checks. Ensure PCI compliance and adherence to EMV, 3D Secure (3DS2), and SCA (Strong Customer Authentication).
4. Performance & Load Testing: Conduct stress testing to evaluate system behaviour under high transaction volumes (TPS - Transactions Per Second). Identify bottlenecks in authorization, settlement, and reconciliation processes.
5. Automation & Tools: Develop and maintain automated test scripts (using tools like Postman, Selenium, JMeter, or Karate). Work with CI/CD pipelines for regression testing.
6. Defect Management: Log, track, and prioritize bugs using JIRA, Bugzilla, or similar tools. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and compliance teams for issue resolution.
7. Documentation & Reporting: Maintain test documentation, including test cases, test data, and audit logs. Provide QA metrics and test summary reports to stakeholders.

We are looking for a detail-oriented SDET-1/Manual QA Engineer to join our QA team. You will be responsible for ensuring our software meets the highest standards of quality before reaching customers. This role involves carefully reviewing requirements and test plans, executing manual tests, and collaborating with product managers, developers to identify and resolve issues.

About Wokelo:

Wokelo is a Gen-AI powered investment research platform. It automates complex research and analysis tasks, traditionally performed by humans. Wokelo is leveraged by leading Private Equity, Investment Banks, Corporate Strategy, Venture capital, and Fortune 500 firms.

Our proprietary agentic technology and state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) deliver rich insights and high-fidelity analysis in a matter of minutes, transforming how financial decisions are made.

We are headquartered in Seattle with a global team, supported by renowned venture funds and industry leaders who share our vision. We are growing fast and expanding across multiple segments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review user stories and requirements for clarity, completeness, and testability.
• Execute test cases for new features, bug fixes, and regression cycles.
• Perform exploratory, usability, smoke, and sanity testing across different environments.
• Perform add hoc data quality checks and regular monitoring
• Log defects with detailed reproduction steps, screenshots, and impact assessment.
• Collaborate with developers and product managers during defect triage to ensure timely fixes.
• Support release testing and assist with UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Maintain organized test documentation and ensure traceability.
• Perform add hoc data quality checks and regular monitoring tasks.

Skills & Qualifications:

• 1–3 years of manual QA or software testing experience in SaaS/Product companies.
• Familiarity with QA processes, SDLC, and defect life cycle.
• Exposure to test management or bug tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
• Ability to identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements.
• Strong attention to detail.

What We Offer?

• Be part of a fast-growing startup shaping the future of AI-powered insights.
• Work with a passionate, collaborative, and high-performance team.
• Opportunity to work at the frontier of GenAI, data, and product strategy.
• Full health coverage, flexible time-off, and remote work culture.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with 4+ years of proven experience in software testing and test automation. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in leading the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) across multiple projects, functional testing of web and backend systems, and hands-on experience with API automation. This role requires someone who can build robust test strategies, design automation frameworks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the complete STLC (planning, test case design, execution, defect management, and closure) across concurrent projects.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications, APIs, and backend systems.

• Perform functional, regression, smoke, and system integration testing, ensuring full coverage and efficient execution.

• Conduct API testing using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or similar, validating request/response structures, data integrity, performance, and security.

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to identify gaps, track defects, and enhance test coverage.

• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster releases.

• Execute performance, load, and stress testing to validate system scalability and reliability.

• Document detailed test plans, strategies, and reports, ensuring clear communication of testing progress and quality metrics.

• Continuously improve test automation frameworks, strategies, and best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in QA automation and software testing.
• Strong experience managing and executing STLC in multi-project environments.
• Hands-on experience with functional testing (web, mobile, backend) and solid test case design skills.
• Proficiency in automation tools such as Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, or equivalent.
• Expertise in API testing using Postman, RestAssured, or similar frameworks.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of scripting/programming languages (Python, Java, or JavaScript).
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) with hands-on exposure.
• Solid problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud-based test environments or Docker/Kubernetes.
• Exposure to performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling.
• Familiarity with security testing practices.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to own the QA function and contribute to building scalable testing systems.
• Work in a fast-paced, tech-driven team with real impact on product quality.
• 5-day work week, flexible working hours, and a collaborative culture.
• Health benefits and support for professional learning & upskilling.

Role: Senior QA

• Exp: 3-5 Years
• Salary: up to 80K INR Per Month
• Location: In Office, Ahmedabad (Maninagar)
• Acceptable Notice Period: Immediate To 30 Days

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans for the e-commerce gift card product, covering functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Manual Testing: Conduct thorough manual testing when necessary, focusing on critical paths, edge cases, and user experience.
• Bug Management: Identify, document, and track bugs using JIRA or similar tools. Work with the development team to prioritize and resolve issues.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and UX/UI designers, to understand requirements, provide feedback, and ensure product quality.
• Performance Testing: Lead efforts to test the scalability and performance of the gift card platform, ensuring it can handle high volumes of transactions and users.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed test documentation, including test cases, test scripts, and test reports.

• We are looking for a versatile, highly professional, disruptive, and focused individual who pays attention to detail and has an eye for quality delivery. The individual must have team collaboration skills and be an active listener and communicator; someone who'd come not just with problems but suggestive solutions.

•  Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science
•  Excellent communication and presentation skills
•  The candidate should also have knowledge of the industry and ability to work under pressure
•  An indefatigable person with high self-esteem and perspicacious nature is that kind of person
•  who will thrive in this role

• Must have worked in an environment where they know when to perform what kind of testing; say smoke, regression, integration, sanity
• Must have test plan, strategy, cases development experience.
• Knowledge on Android/iOS app testing (usage of Debugging tools relevant is added bonus)
• Must know to prioritize work items based on the business need
• Knows how to handle tough timelines situations and not compromise quality.
• Must have experience in product management methodology such as agilenon-process oriented environment
• Should have experience in any of the ALM tools such as TFS JIRA or even be open to build application reporting structure in excel.
• Analyzing the requirements from clients
• Analyzing and executing Test Cases
• Run Re-Tests and Regression Tests.
• Develop & Run Release Tests

What you need to have: 

• Review requirements specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities
• Design test cases based on the use cases and considering various quality aspects.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Perform in-depth and thorough testing of the owned features/areas.
• Maintain the test cases and test results in test management system.
• Maintain the defects in defect Management system.
• Plan and realise the test environment, platforms, test cycles and regression cycles based on the strategy and quality evaluation at different stages of the product.
• Keep updated on the latest testing and domain technologies, test coverage methodologies and quality metrics.
• Develop skills on automation and testing tools.
• Should guide junior members in performing their activities effectively and help them develop technical skills.

• BE/B-Tech/BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Should have at least 4 years of relevant experience in QA.
• Proven working experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools is a plus
• Knowledge of SQL and scripting is big plus