QA- Automation Engineer

📌 Job Title: Software Test Engineer (Manual Testing)

Company: Pentabay Softwares

Experience: 1 – 5 Years

Location: Anna Salai (Mount Road), Chennai

Employment Type: Full-time, Onsite

🔍 Job Description

Pentabay Softwares is looking for a Software Test Engineer (Manual Testing) with 1–5 years of hands-on experience to join our growing team. The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge of manual testing concepts, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work closely with developers and product teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

🧪 Roles & Responsibilities

• Understand project requirements, functional specifications, and business workflows
• Design, write, and execute test cases based on requirements
• Perform Manual Testing including:
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Smoke & Sanity Testing
• Integration Testing
• UAT Support
• Identify, log, track, and verify bugs using bug-tracking tools
• Collaborate with development teams to reproduce issues and validate fixes
• Prepare test reports, test summary documents, and defect metrics
• Participate in requirement reviews and provide testability feedback
• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality releases

🛠️ Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Hands-on experience in Manual Testing
• Good understanding of SDLC models (Agile / Waterfall)
• Experience in writing test cases, test scenarios, and test plans
• Knowledge of defect life cycle
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools (JIRA or similar – added advantage)
• Basic understanding of SQL is a plus
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

🎯 Candidate Requirements

• 1–5 years of relevant experience in Manual Testing
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT or related field
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

🌟 Why Join Pentabay Softwares?

• Work on real-time projects with growing technologies
• Collaborative and learning-driven work environment
• Opportunity to enhance skills and grow your career

Sent Resumes to: sandhiya.m at pentabay.com

Design test plans, write test cases, review functional requirement documentation, and present test strategies for team review

• Conduct integration, regression, ad-hoc, and edge-case testing as part of release cycles
• Analyze complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• Understand and represent customer needs in product feedback discussions
• Participate in release management and post deployment testing
• Work closely with developer team to ensure proper test coverage is done
• Documentation and Release cycle

Job Profile Requirement : 

Experience of testing web applications, mobile applications.

• Knowledge of Responsive Testing
• Working knowledge of functional, GUI, Performance and Regression testing
• Strong knowledge of QA procedures, principles, and tools.
• Strong verbal and written (technical) communication skills to explain bugs and other issues identified and produce bug reports, documentation and feedback to both product owners and software developers.
• Ability to work in an environment of perfection and compliance to web standards and high design quality benchmarks.
• Strong organisational and time management skills - know what you need to do, and DO IT!

Role & Responsibilities:

1. Performing Manual Functionality Testing
2. Preparing Documentation like Test Plan, User manual etc.
3. Co-ordination with Business team for requirement understanding
4. Providing operational support as needed

Skills & Qualification:

1. BE or MCA
2. 2+ years of relevant work experience
3. Experience in Manual Testing of App, Web and APIs
4. Basic Knowledge of SQL
5. Knowledge of JavaScript and Automation Tool like Selinium, Jmeter etc. is preferred

• Exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Perform various types of testing like sanity, functional, exploratory, integration, and system testing to ensure that the product delivered is of high quality.
• Support the Planning of test schedules in accordance with project scope/delivery dates and ensure that the timelines are adhered to without fail.
• Have very good knowledge of SDLC and STLC life cycles and working knowledge in agile.
• Work as part of cross-functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases.
• Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining a robust log of all test cases and test results.
• Very good at manual testing of web and windows based applications, web services testing, and integration testing of a complex system, iOS and Android applications.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting of bugs to developers so as to fix it and follow-ups.
• Lesson Learnt documents (based on testing inputs from the previous project)
• Suggestion Documents (to improve software quality)
• Leads test processes and delivers results to necessary stakeholders.
• Reviews changes or upgrades to existing tests, tools, and testing protocols.
• Good to have knowledge over Stockbroking applications, financial and capital market domain.

Desired Technical Skills and Experience

• Experience with Web Applications, iOS, and Android Applications.
• Passionate about understanding the application end to end.
• Effective communication skills to interact with internal stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Adaptable to the current requirement.
• High-level problem-solving skills, and the ability to project manage Knowledge of defect management process
• Strong understanding of software concepts and ability to quickly grasp new products and technologies.

• 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