QA Lead

📌 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.

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.

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.

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

• As a Senior Software Test Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to test/qualify new products and enhancements to existing products as part of a cross functional team. You are required to verify and validate software changes for new products, enhancements and defects.
• Responsible for verifying that the software complies with the requirements and that the various customer use-cases can be satisfactorily met by the software.
• Work very closely with the project/baseline manager and development team to understand the architecture and design of the system and the interaction between various software sub-systems and components.
• Prepare and execute test plans for software releases, document and automate test cases to exercise the various features and capabilities of the software, identify and capture bugs and related information in the bug tracking database.
• Develop higher complexity test cases, test suite selection and execute all necessary testing activity required for a customer software release (negative and backward compatibility scenarios) per assignment, group objectives and product requirements.
• Document, enhance and maintain regression test procedures over the lifecycle of the software.
• Execute the software release test plans and certify that a software release has met the quality criterion(s) for various phase exits (pre-alpha, alpha, beta).
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Independently manage schedule for his/her projects and deliverables, seamlessly works with all key stakeholders to ensure delivery is never on the critical path
• Consistently look out for areas of improvement in all areas of software product development and processes, champions implementation of identified best practices

• Strong understanding of SDLC processes and the QA lifecycle and methodology
• Prior experience in supervisory control systems software would be a plus (but not mandatory)
• Strong knowledge of software test methodologies, tools, standards and processes.
• Good hands on programing experience in any of the scripting/programming languages (C++, C#, Java Script)
• Strong interpersonal skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Prior experience of working in global teams and interfacing with multiple stake holders

What you need to have:

Position Description

Key Responsibilities and Requirements

• Contributes to overall business results by making recommendations that significantly improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of Travel Industry
• Facilitate the analysis, design and programming of viable solutions to high complexity business problems according to user specifications
• Ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound and integrated
• Document and create test cases and to execute and verify those test cases as part of the overall functional testing of Information Technology products
• Contribute to test planning including API Testing
• Participate in the activities to develop and execute test to validate system functionality against specifications
• Take lead role in the testing of small to medium sized products
• Ensure that systems software is thoroughly tested
• Solid understanding of Quality Assurance methods and practices
• Deep understanding of manual and automated testing concepts
• 3 to 5 years’ experience as a QA Analyst/Engineer or similar role with a heavy focus on Automation Testing.
• Experience with high volume consumer-oriented web sites
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Experience with formal test procedures, release management
• Experience in Travel industry experience, GDS’s - SABRE, Amadeus, and Travelport
• Ability to distill complex business needs into functional requirements
• Excellent follow-up, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to make good decisions
• Team player with a professional attitude and learn new products
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain tight schedules
• Ability to work effectively with a geographically dispersed team in India and United States
• Strong skill and experience analyzing data sets of all sizes.

Strategic and Development Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with Executive, Marketing, Sales and Operations teams in gathering product requirements, reporting results and managing expectations.
• Willingness to work flexible and/or extended hours as necessary and travel internationally on occasion.
• Specifically participate in the following: market research, requirements gathering and documentation, architecture design, resource allocation, issue delegation, release management, project timelines, source code protection, testing/QA (use cases) and outsourcing.
• Ability to "think outside the box"
• Ability to provide accurate and timely project estimates.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in CS, MIS, or equivalent.