
- Work with product and business stakeholders to prepare test cases and plan
- Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks for scalability, stability, and performance
- Write new automated tests for existing and new features
- Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test case documentation
- Create logs to document testing phases and defects
- Report bugs and drive them to closure by collaborating with development teams
- Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
What Makes You A Great Fit
- Experience with test frameworks, regression testing, and QA methodology
- Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
- Desire to be a perfectionist

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Key Responsibilities
Execute comprehensive manual test cases for our e-commerce platform
Design and implement automated test scripts using Selenium or Playwright
Work with AI-based testing tools to enhance testing efficiency and coverage
Identify, document, and track bugs throughout the testing lifecycle
Collaborate with developers and product managers to resolve issues
Participate in sprint planning and review meetings
Create and maintain testing documentation
Requirements
Minimum 2+ years of hands-on software testing experience
Strong manual testing skills with attention to detail
Experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium or Playwright)
Familiarity with AI-based testing tools and approaches
Understanding of e-commerce platforms and their testing requirements
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and collaboration abilities
Experience with agile testing methodologies
Selection Process
Our hiring process involves practical assessment to ensure candidates have the hands-on experience we require:
Initial screening and interview
First-round technical assessment (practical task)
Technical interview
Second-round technical assessment (practical task)
Final interview
Note: Completion of the practical assessment tasks is mandatory for all candidates as we prioritize demonstrated skills and hands-on experience.
Job Title: Manual QA Engineer (Mobile & Web)
Location: Mumbai and Banglore
Experience: 2+ Years
Work Mode - 5 Days Work from Office
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for a strong Manual Tester with deep technical understanding of the product domain and system architecture. This role is hands-on and focuses on end-to-end quality ownership across Mobile and Web applications. Interviews will emphasize practical testing expertise, system thinking, and problem-solving—not automation frameworks or coding exercises.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform thorough manual testing of Mobile (Android/iOS) and/or Web applications
- Analyze application behavior using tools like Android Studio, Xcode, and device/app logs
- Debug and investigate API failures, including response codes and error handling
- Validate backend workflows through database checks, cURL extraction, and Postman
- Understand and test end-to-end application flows, ensuring seamless interaction between frontend, backend, APIs, and databases
- Perform failure analysis and root-cause investigation, collaborating closely with developers
- Clearly document and communicate defects, impact, and test findings to engineering and product stakeholders
- Leverage AI tools to improve test coverage, efficiency, exploratory testing, and problem-solving within a manual testing setup
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience in Mobile App and/or Web Application manual testing
- Solid understanding of backend architecture and how it connects to application workflows
- Excellent technical communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
- Curious mindset with a willingness to adopt AI-driven tools to enhance testing outcomes
Nice to Have
- Experience testing complex, distributed systems
- Exposure to performance, security, or reliability testing (manual focus)
- Prior experience in fast-paced or product-driven environments
3 Mandatory Skills
- Manual Testing Expertise (Mobile/Web) – Hands-on experience with Android/iOS or Web apps, including log analysis and debugging
- Backend & API Understanding – API testing (Postman, cURL), DB validation, response code analysis, and root-cause investigation
- Strong Technical Communication – Ability to clearly articulate issues, impact, and test results to developers and stakeholders
Requirements:
- Lead and manage a team that:
- Reviews and refines software requirements.
- Drafts and executes test plans and test cases.
- Identifies and drafts steps to reproduce defects utilizing our defect tracking system, JIRA.
- Enters and tracks defects to closure.
- Utilizes testing tools to increase the effectiveness of testing.
- Maintains test environments that mimic our production systems.
- Maintains and updates Selenium driven UI automation test cases.
- Maintains and updates ReadyAPI API automation test cases.
- Maintains and updates manual test cases.
- Maintains and updates JMeter performance/load test cases.
- Coach, mentor, and assist the team in performing their duties as needed.
- Provide formal QA approval and reporting for each release.
- Operate within the SAFe Agile methodology.
- Coordinate with other QA teams across the company.
- Experience leading a SQA or Software Development team
- Experience managing projects and processes cross-functionally
- Comfortable working in a continually changing and dynamic environment and driving top issues to resolution
- Proven track record of attracting, hiring, motivating and developing the best quality-minded individuals
- Excellent cross-functional communication and influencing skills
- In-depth knowledge and experience in one or more of the following technologies: Java, Python, Selenium, JMeter, ReadyAPI
- Automation planning, execution, and triage for projects on multiple Platforms.
- Excellent presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways
- In-depth knowledge and experience in identity management including OpenID Connect, SAML2, OAuth2, and SCIM.
- In-depth knowledge and experience of application security testing.
- Unix command line scripting skills
- Develop detailed test strategy and test plans for various features at the functional and system level.
- Be a gatekeeper for the quality of any product going out in the market from Rapido including customer experiences.
- Integral members of SDLC right from product requirements gathering phase to design reviews till the delivery of the product.
- Maintain a staging environment to effectively verify and validate the products.
- Ensure comprehensive test coverage by preparing a detailed capability matrix to map features to the functional requirements of the test plan and for defining the acceptance criteria.
- Effectively develop an automation to improve efficiency/productivity.
- Expertise in developing automation framework for mobile apps, web UI, APIs using appropriate open source tools like Appium, Selenium, SOAP UI, Rest Assured etc.
- Fluent with OOPS concepts and any one programming language like Java, Python etc.
- Cover all dimensions of Rapido’s product which includes features/functionality, scale/load, usability, and performance.
- Hands on experience in CI/CD driven test processes is an added benefit.
- Analyze defects to assess the severity and prioritize them for development to fix.
- Work with software developers to tune code and track all problem reports to closure. Analyze test results to ensure functionality and recommend appropriate action.
- Mentor QAs within the team.
- Graduation/Masters in computer science
- 2-7 Years of relevant experience
- Round 1 – Technical Interview 1
- Round 2 – Technical Interview 2
- Round 3 – Managerial Round
- Round 4 – HR Round
Describe the ideal candidate here.
All of the GaragePlug product modules have critical workflows, and the new developers need to be more confident and fearless about making changes in the system. This will help to deliver products faster to the customers while building more robust products.
We have developed an in-house framework for manually testing the features/product before the launch. This has helped us to catch more than 1000 bugs before releasing the feature in production.
Think of this as the backbone that will help engineers from the product team to automate critical workflows and coordinate bug bashes for all the product teams. Your understanding of functional testing, writing maintainable tests, written and verbal communication skills will be put to the test.
# WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
### **Within 1st month**
- Learn all aspects of products and critical workflows for each of the products as part of your training.
- Setup the dev environment and organise your first bug bash.
- Have a one-one chat with every member of the GaragePlug team so you get to know everyone well.
- 1-hour session every week with one of the product & quality experts from other Upekkha startups
- Weekly 2 times join sales and customer success team for pre-sales customer demos to understand the product usage
- Weekly 1 session with customer success team to know more about the domain and product usage
- Start writing the functional test case masters for core modules
### **Within 3 months**
- You’ll start developing your first project all by yourself.(With some guidance)
- Write your first set of automation code and work with other engineers to setup functional testing workflows.
- Have an exhaustive test-case/scenarios for all product components
- Be responsible for the product release and release process automation
### **Within 6 months**
- You’ll automate five to six critical workflows for the existing product.
- Establish process for writing functional test that will impact the entire product.
- Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
- Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new bug-bashes.
### **Within 12 months**
- You’ll automate at least 60-70%of the workflows in product and completely own QA as a function.
- Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.
# **WHAT AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD LOOK LIKE**
- We use Spring-boot microservices for backend and Angular 2+/Ionic 3+ for frontend. We prefer someone with experience in selenium, but it is not necessary. You must have experience of working with testing frameworks like selenium, tools, or SaaS products for functional testing like [cypress.io](https://cypress.io/).
- Dedicated to testing. While testing can sometimes get repetitive and monotonous, it is critical to our engineering efforts.
- 2-4 years of experience with automated functional testing.
- Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- A knack for breaking things. You should be driven to test with the motive of breaking the application.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
**Personality traits we really admire**
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.
- You are a team player
**Our tech stack is Java Spring-boot, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Angular 2+, Ionic 3+, Typescript. Our platform is hosted on AWS Cloud.**
# **INTERVIEW PROCESS AND PREP NOTES**
- **Problem Solving & Analytical Skills:** We are a Java & Angular shop, and if you say that you will improve the quality of the product, we expect you to know basics of typescript and/or Java (but not mandatory)
- **Blackbox Testing:** Be prepared to answer some simulation-based questions during our interviews. From writing the requirements for a test case to planning & executing test plans on the GaragePlug platform, watch out for some hard-hitting questions.
- **Culture Round:** Understand if your values and beliefs fit in with your company’s culture. Be yourself. This is for both sides to evaluate if we're a cultural fit for each other.
- **Founder Round:** Discussion with both the founders of the company. This round helps us evaluate how we both can mutually benefit each other.
# **WHY JOIN US**
- **Freedom & Responsibility:** If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your boundaries with no one monitoring you, then this is the right place for you. There are no hierarchies. No managers to please.
- **Great Salary & Equity:** For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As GaragePlug continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We pay great salaries too!
- **Transparency:** If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with GaragePlug gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
If all of this sounds exciting to you, join us for an exciting and equally fulfilling ride at GaragePlug!
We are seeking a skilled QA engineer who has experience in automation. Candidates from startup eco-system will be preferred.
Requirements:
- Have worked on JS based automation framework i.e. Protractor or Puppeteer.
- Have minimum of 2 years of strong experience in front-end automation.
- Understand how Single Page Apps work.
- Experience of automating API tests (our current automation is via C#).
- Understand how CI/CD works.
- Learn-ability and a good team player.










