QA 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

• Exploratory tester with 2–3 years of experience in software testing.
• The candidate should be an expert in GUI and functional testing of web applications.
• Good communication is a must and should be capable of collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Should be self driven capable of handling responsibilities independently.
• Should have good knowledge of SQL and Jira
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required for test analysis and reporting.
• Should be able to understand application architecture to effectively design and execute test scenarios.
• Experience with Playwright automation is an added advantage but not mandatory.

1. Development and Test Automation experience through Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Establishing and executing Automated testing strategy for mobile apps with Tools like Perfecto Mobile/Appium or Web Driver/Selenium, TestNG and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Git, Stampede etc.
3. Sound knowledge in JAVA is must have
4. Experience in Mobile AppDev and Test management tool (JIRA, qTest) and
5. Monitoring/Troubleshooting Tools Splunk, DynaTrace, SOAP UI 

1.  2+ of experience in producing test plans and creating test UI scripts/cases
2. Good experience of the management of all or part of the Mobile AppDev and UI Test execution phase in projects
3. Work in Agile methodology with TDD
4. Experience in API and Database Automated Testing
5.  Hands on experience of iOS (Objective C/Swift) and Android (Kotlin) technologies
6. Hands on experience in developing test artifacts and processes. Should have done test reporting with good clarity and no ambiguity
7. Experienced working in an onshore/offshore environment with flexible and adaptable working style to work with aggressive project schedules
8. Good communication and interpersonal skills
9. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Play an active role in QA activities during all phases of our product development from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment
• Responsible for manual and automated testing activities for a multi-tier web-based platform. This includes writing test cases based on business requirements, test data creation, creating and maintaining automated scripts to test front-end, APIs and database changes
• Creating and maintaining all QA related documentation throughout the process
• Execution of the test phase consistent with the overall project schedules
• Direct interaction/facilitation of bug resolution with engineering teams
• Work effectively within a dynamic team environment following standards and best practices and ensure the highest level of quality
• Ability to understand the technical architecture, its implementation, design patterns, data representations and infrastructure powering these systems.
• Work closely with software devs and solution architects to understand the tech stack, design and accordingly build the test frameworks, setup infra and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and client apps
• Debug test failures, read through logs, network calls and make preliminary root cause analysis of defect/bug
• Develop test plans, test cases, test design documents with good coverage and optimised testing approach
• Should be able to identify the test cases qualifying for test automation
• Use of tracking tools to log, manage, resolve and report on bugs

Candidate requirements

Must have

• At least 2-4 years of experience in manual and automated quality assurance
• Experience on automation tools like TestNG, Selenium (Grid, parallel, SauceLabs), Mocha_Chai frontend or backend test automation
• Good understanding of REST APIs and a solid experience in testing them
• Tools like Jira, Asana or similar bug tracking tool, Confluence - Wiki, Jenkins - CI tool
• Knowledge of different browsers and cross-platform operating systems
• Keen eye for design and functional UX
• Strong in writing SQL queries
• Proficiency in git
• Ability to develop or maintain applications for test automation
• Excellent written and oral communication and organisational skills with the ability to work within a growing company with increasing needs
• Proven track record of ability to handle time-critical projects

Good to have

• Experience in working in a distributed micro-service environment
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or any other programming language
• Hands-on experience in testing frameworks like Pytest or testing platforms like BrowserStack
• Built APIs at some point and practical knowledge on working with them
• Good understanding of CI/CD
• Ability to independently manage test environment deployments and handle issues around it
• Performed load testing of API endpoints
• Should have built an API test automation framework from scratch and maintained it
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computer Applications