QA Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer – Manual Testing (Hardware Focused)

Location: Navi Mumbai (Only local candidates from Mumbai/Navi Mumbai will be considered)

Work Mode: 5 Days Working | Work From Office

Experience Required: 5+ Years

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners or Candidates Who are already serving or served notice period.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Manual QA Engineer with strong proficiency in hardware-based and emulator-driven manual testing. The ideal candidate will also possess 1–2 years of hands-on experience in Java, ideally for scripting or basic automation tasks. This role is ideal for someone with a background in hardware testing looking to contribute to highly integrated systems involving both hardware and software components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute manual test cases focused on hardware-integrated systems, embedded environments, and emulators.
• Translate complex system requirements and user stories into well-structured, actionable test cases.
• Plan and maintain comprehensive test documentation ensuring traceability and thorough coverage.
• Identify, document, and follow up on bugs and inconsistencies across releases and change requests.
• Collaborate with development and hardware teams to ensure robust system validation across interfaces.
• Utilize Java (1–2 years' experience) to support test scripting or automation where applicable.

Must-Have Skills:

• Manual Testing Expertise: 5+ years in QA with a primary focus on hardware/manual testing.
• Hardware & Emulator Testing: Proven experience in testing physical devices, hardware components, or emulators.
• Java Scripting: 1–2 years of experience in Java for test scripting or automation utilities.
• Proficiency in test case design, defect tracking (e.g., JIRA), and understanding of testing life cycle models.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms like AWS.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and working knowledge of databases.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Python or other test automation frameworks.
• Testing certifications (ISTQB, CP-SAT, CP-MAT, etc.)
• Familiarity with location-based technologies (GPS, mapping, navigation systems).
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

JD for QA Engineer:

• Must have worked on web based applications like React(Frontend) and Drupal CMS(backend)
• Understand requirements, develop test plan, execute manual test cases, dig deeper into issues, identify root causes and articulate defects clearly.
• Strive for excellence in quality by looking beyond obvious scenarios and stated requirements and by keeping end user needs in mind.
• Deliver a high quality robust product in a fast paced environment.
• Work closely with the Development, Product Management, Design and Content team for release of the feature/product.
• Recreate production reported issues to determine root cause and verify the fix.
• Stay current with the latest technology, tools and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to peers.
• Self-starter, takes initiative, identifies and completes tasks, should be goal driven.
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Required Skills:

• Graduate or Masters in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• 4-5 years of experience in QA methodologies, SDLC, STLC
• Strong testing & technical skills with excellent knowledge of designing tests for early defect identification.
• Hands on experience in creation and execution of test cases/test plans.
• Experience of SQL and Database and API Testing.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Understanding of Performance, and Security Testing techniques.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and hands-on with Unix shell commands.
• Hands on experience with technologies like React, and Drupal CMS

Note: immediate joiners.(Good communication, React and Drupal CMS must have skills)

What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻

1. You will be owning features through inception, design feedback, implementation, and launch. This will include building test plans for new features and improvising on existing test plans for feature updates and customer feedback.
2. You will collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, Data Engineers, and Customer Support

What do I need? 🤓

1. Strong quality sense and experience working closely with web/mobile development teams
2. Excellent communication skills and passion for tough technical problems
3. Attention to detail and voice of customer experience
4. Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
5. Experience in championing customer feedback post-launch and bringing it to the attention of relevant teams
6. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Brownie points 🍰

1. Understanding of the importance of test plans and how to approach writing informative bug reports

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

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Dukaan is looking at a QA engineer to join our team and help us ship polished & defect free products to our users. 

QA Engineer Roles & Responsibilities 

Your primary responsibility will be to run various tests from the test-suite on new software releases to ensure that it satisfies all specifications and requirements as well as free from any bugs. 

Once issues have been resolved, You will run additional tests to make sure the issues are resolved before the new release is pushed to production. 

1. Thoroughly testing new releases to find bugs or design issues. 
2. Identifying bugs in new releases and understanding how to resolve them
3. Creating issues for these bugs and with steps on how to re-produce them.
4. Ensuring that new software products are ready for consumer use
5. Working with development teams to prevent issues with new products

• 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, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

• Knowledge of the quality assurance and testing concepts, methodologies, metrics, automated testing frameworks, and documentation standards.
• Should have knowledge/experience in creating Test Plans, Test scripts, Test cases.
• Collaborate well with others. Ability to translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand terms.
• Preferred knowledge/understanding of different mobile operating systems (Android, iOS)
• Preferred knowledge/experience testing both front-end (GUI)and back-end (database query) applications                                                        
• Experience using Git / Github

• Managing the solving of problems concerning the test automation infrastructure
• Understand and maintain Test Automation Frameworks.
• Follow the coding standards and code walk through.
• Maintain Automation Standards and Processes documentation.
• Write automated test scripts under the direction of the Test Automation Lead.
• Ability to work independently on tasks / modules assigned related to automation
• Monitoring of and reporting on the progress of the test automation process
• Reporting on the quality of the test object
• Raise risks on time and provide alternate solutions to mitigate the risk
• Advice and support for the implementation of all types of tools