QA Manual Tester

Job Description – Senior QA Engineer (Banking & Financial Applications)Position

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Experience: 3+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Department: Quality Assurance

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior QA Lead to take ownership of quality assurance across our banking and financial applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing end-to-end testing activities while leading a team of QA engineers.

This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership, client communication, and quality governance. The candidate will be expected to interact directly with customers and stakeholders, manage testing initiatives across multiple platforms, drive quality improvements, and lead the organization's transition from predominantly manual testing to scalable automation testing practices.

The successful candidate must possess excellent communication skills, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to confidently represent the QA function in both internal and client-facing discussions.

Key ResponsibilitiesQuality Assurance Leadership

• Own and manage the complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Define QA strategy, testing methodologies, standards, and best practices.
• Establish quality benchmarks and release readiness criteria.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality software across all products and releases.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA function.
• Monitor product quality metrics and provide regular reporting to management.

Manual Testing & Quality Management

• Design, review, and execute detailed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
• Validate complex business workflows within banking and financial systems.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects through closure.
• Ensure adequate test coverage across all business-critical features.
• Perform root cause analysis for production issues and quality incidents.

Test Automation Leadership

• Drive the organization's automation testing strategy.
• Identify manual testing areas suitable for automation.
• Build and maintain automation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve automated test coverage.
• Establish automation frameworks, standards, and coding practices.
• Continuously improve automation efficiency and execution reliability.
• Measure and report automation coverage and effectiveness.

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers.
• Allocate work and monitor team performance and deliverables.
• Conduct test reviews and quality audits.
• Support team development through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
• Establish accountability and ownership within the QA team.
• Assist in hiring, onboarding, and training QA resources when required.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary QA representative in client interactions.
• Conduct customer calls, demonstrations, and quality review meetings.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
• Handle client concerns and escalations professionally and diplomatically.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps teams, and senior leadership.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships through clear and effective communication.

Banking Domain Quality Assurance

• Validate banking, financial, and transaction-based workflows.
• Ensure accuracy of financial calculations, reconciliations, and transaction processing.
• Test security-sensitive and compliance-driven functionality.
• Verify integration with third-party financial systems, APIs, and services.
• Understand business-critical workflows and identify potential quality risks.

Required Technical SkillsTesting Expertise

• Strong experience in Manual Testing.
• Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in Functional Testing.
• Regression Testing.
• Integration Testing.
• System Testing.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Exploratory Testing.
• Smoke & Sanity Testing.
• Defect Lifecycle Management.

Automation Testing

Hands-on experience with one or more of:

• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Appium

Experience with:

• Test automation framework design
• Automated regression suites
• Cross-browser testing
• Test execution pipelines
• Automation reporting and analysis

API Testing

• Postman
• REST APIs
• API Validation
• API Automation
• JSON/XML Validation

Database Testing

• SQL
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Data Validation
• Query Analysis

Ability to:

• Write and execute SQL queries.
• Validate backend data against application workflows.
• Investigate data-related defects.

Frontend & Backend Understanding

The candidate should possess a good functional understanding of:

Frontend

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript fundamentals
• Browser Developer Tools

Backend

• API architecture
• Authentication mechanisms
• Database concepts
• Application logs and troubleshooting
• Client-server architecture

Tools & Platforms

Experience with:

• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• TestRail (preferred)
• Confluence
• Git
• CI/CD Pipelines

Exposure to:

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD

Required Soft SkillsCommunication

• Excellent verbal and written English communication.
• Ability to conduct client-facing meetings independently.
• Strong presentation and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate technical and non-technical concepts clearly.

Leadership

• Team management and mentoring experience.
• Ownership-driven mindset.
• Ability to drive outcomes with minimal supervision.
• Strong decision-making capabilities.

Stakeholder Management

• Professional and diplomatic communication style.
• Strong customer relationship management skills.
• Ability to handle escalations and difficult conversations effectively.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and departments.

Personal Attributes

• Highly proactive and self-motivated.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
• Detail-oriented with a quality-first mindset.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Banking, FinTech, Payments, Lending, NBFC, or Financial Services domains.
• Experience working with enterprise-scale applications.
• Exposure to security and compliance testing.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• ISTQB Certification (preferred).
• Experience driving QA transformation initiatives from manual testing to automation-first testing.

Key Success Indicators

The selected candidate will be expected to:

• Own and drive product quality across all releases.
• Lead and manage the QA team effectively.
• Improve automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort over time.
• Ensure smooth release cycles with minimal production defects.
• Build strong client relationships through professional communication.
• Proactively identify risks and drive timely resolutions.
• Establish a scalable and mature QA process across the organization.

Byteridge is currently hiring for Manual Test Engineers with experience in the ERP domain and strong hands-on skills in API testing using Postman.

Role: QA Engineer (Manual Testing)

Domain: ERP

Requirement: Must have experience with Postman for API testing

Location/Mode: Remote

About the company:

Byteridge is a digital product design and development company that builds tailored web and mobile app solutions for global clients. Recognized as a Great Place to Work for 2025-26, Byteridge is where talented professionals work on exciting, impactful products in a collaborative and growth-driven environment.

We are looking for a detail-oriented Manual Tester to join our QA team. This role is ideal for freshers or candidates with up to 1 year of experience who are eager to build a career in software testing and quality assurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand application requirements and functional specifications
• Execute manual test cases for web and/or mobile applications
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, and sanity testing
• Identify, document, and track bugs clearly
• Work closely with developers to reproduce and verify fixes
• Retest resolved issues and ensure quality before releases
• Participate in basic test planning and reporting activities
• Ensure applications meet expected quality standards

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.

Functional: Manual Functional Testing of Web and Mobile Applications, Writing Test Cases, Regression Testing, Data Verification, GIT & JIRA, Basic Automation Testing,
Testing feeds - Understanding of JSON and XML structures, Testing tools like Postman, Swagger & Charles Proxy, Browser Development Tools,GIT & JIRA.

Position description: 2+ years of hands on experience in testing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• To work closely with software developers and product planners to understand more about what the product is for, its key features and the intended audience
• Required to carry out a mix of key functional and non-functional tests such as Sanity, Regression, Load, Security and Deployment
• Required to plan test cases in consultation with the stake holders
• Required to document all bugs and findings of these tests and ensuring they are addressed

Required Skills:

Mandatory: Passionate about sports, Problem solving, Team player, Target & Result oriented.

• Work with our proprietary Java and Kotlin based SDK to find performance and functionality-related issues.
•  Working with in-house Dashboards to perform testing of UI and APIs.
• Collaborating with teams to create test documents.
• Planning and task management in congruence with the Leadership Team.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Expertise in testing different QA Methodologies black box, white box, and gray box for both web UIs and backends both manually and automation.
• Ability to code and maintain back-end automation frameworks written in distributed programming languages such as Python.
• Ability to automate Android applications using tools such as Appium.
• Hands-on experience on API testing and testing tools like Postman, Rest-Assured, or other API testing tools.
• Experience working with Proxy tools like Charles Proxy, Fiddler.
• Excellent in test strategizing, planning, estimation, execution, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of Agile scrum methodologies Strong debugging, problem-solving, interpersonal and troubleshooting skills.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Python or Java Appium
•  Rest-Assured or Postman
• Fiddler or Charles Proxy
• Black Box testing
• White Box testing

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

• An opportunity to be a part of a fast scaling start-up in the AdTech space that offers unmatched services and products.
• To work with a team of young enthusiasts who are always upbeat and self-driven to achieve bigger milestones in shorter time spans.
•  A workspace, that is wide open as per open door policy at the company, located in the happening center of Bangalore
• A well-fed stomach makes the mind work better and therefore- free lunch with a wide variety on all working days of the week, a stocked up pantry to satiate your want for munchies, a Foosball table to burst stress and above all a great working environment.
• We believe that we grow as you grow. Once you are a part of our team, your growth also becomes essential to us, and in order to make sure that happens, there are timely formal and informal feedback sessions.