QA Tester

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

1. Manual Testing Expertise (Mobile/Web) – Hands-on experience with Android/iOS or Web apps, including log analysis and debugging
2. Backend & API Understanding – API testing (Postman, cURL), DB validation, response code analysis, and root-cause investigation
3. Strong Technical Communication – Ability to clearly articulate issues, impact, and test results to developers and stakeholders

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with 4+ years of proven experience in software testing and test automation. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in leading the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) across multiple projects, functional testing of web and backend systems, and hands-on experience with API automation. This role requires someone who can build robust test strategies, design automation frameworks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the complete STLC (planning, test case design, execution, defect management, and closure) across concurrent projects.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications, APIs, and backend systems.

• Perform functional, regression, smoke, and system integration testing, ensuring full coverage and efficient execution.

• Conduct API testing using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or similar, validating request/response structures, data integrity, performance, and security.

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to identify gaps, track defects, and enhance test coverage.

• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster releases.

• Execute performance, load, and stress testing to validate system scalability and reliability.

• Document detailed test plans, strategies, and reports, ensuring clear communication of testing progress and quality metrics.

• Continuously improve test automation frameworks, strategies, and best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in QA automation and software testing.
• Strong experience managing and executing STLC in multi-project environments.
• Hands-on experience with functional testing (web, mobile, backend) and solid test case design skills.
• Proficiency in automation tools such as Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, or equivalent.
• Expertise in API testing using Postman, RestAssured, or similar frameworks.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of scripting/programming languages (Python, Java, or JavaScript).
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) with hands-on exposure.
• Solid problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud-based test environments or Docker/Kubernetes.
• Exposure to performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling.
• Familiarity with security testing practices.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to own the QA function and contribute to building scalable testing systems.
• Work in a fast-paced, tech-driven team with real impact on product quality.
• 5-day work week, flexible working hours, and a collaborative culture.
• Health benefits and support for professional learning & upskilling.

Understand product requirements and translate them into effective test cases.

Perform manual functional, regression, UI, and integration testing.

Conduct thorough API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger.

Perform database validation using SQL queries to verify data integrity.

Create, manage, and execute detailed test plans and test cases.

Log and track defects using tools like JIRA, Bugzilla, or Azure DevOps.

Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives).

Collaborate closely with the development and product teams to reproduce issues and validate fixes

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)

• 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

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience of 5+ years working as a Quality Assurance Analyst
• Experience with test management tools such as Quality Centre, JIRA, ADO.
• Knowledge of automation tools like Selenium
• Knowledge of Non-Functional testing - Accessibility, Performance
• Educated to degree level, ideally in Computer Science
• ISEB certification in Testing (intermediate level) is advantageous
• Experience in participating in process change is advantageous
• Experience testing commercial websites in a creative and/or agency environment is advantageous
• Experience testing native iOS and Android applications is advantageous

QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS

• 5+ years’ industry experience.
• Analytic and positive mindset with a personable and professional approach.
• Sharp attention to detail and a passion for new technology.
• Professional written and verbal communication.

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.