Quality Assurance Engineer Software

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Manual Tester to join our Quality Assurance team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring that software applications meet high standards of quality, performance, usability, and user experience.

The role requires close collaboration with developers, business analysts, project managers, and other stakeholders to identify, report, and resolve issues throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform various types of testing, including:
• Smoke Testing
• Sanity Testing
• Regression Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• API Testing
• Functional and Non-Functional Testing
• Black Box Testing
• White Box Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Basic Security Testing
• Conduct basic performance testing to ensure applications meet expected responsiveness and stability standards.
• Develop, review, and execute test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Perform cross-browser, cross-platform, and responsive UI testing.
• Provide usability feedback from an end-user perspective to improve the overall user experience.
• Test applications from a real-world user perspective to ensure usability, functionality, and accessibility.
• Perform sanity checks after deployment across different environments.
• Track, log, and manage defects using tools such as Jira or Zoho, ensuring clear and accurate issue reporting.
• Maintain comprehensive test documentation, defect reports, QA status reports, and test execution records.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile development environment.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC and STLC processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in testing practices and QA processes.
• Understand and apply the Bug Life Cycle for accurate defect reporting, tracking, and closure.
• Write and execute SQL queries to validate data integrity during testing.
• Use REST API testing tools such as Postman for API validation.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Strong understanding of manual testing methodologies, QA processes, and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with bug tracking and defect management tools such as Jira or Zoho.
• Familiarity with REST API testing and API validation tools such as Postman.
• Good knowledge of SQL for backend and database validation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Good understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Agile methodology.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for reporting issues and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Attention to detail with a strong focus on quality and user experience.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may also be considered.
• 2–4 years of experience in Manual Testing or a similar QA role.
• Exposure to basic performance testing and security testing is preferred.

Review Criteria:

Mandatory:

• Strong UAT / Functional Test Lead Profiles
• Must have minimum 7 years of overall testing experience, with at least 3 years of recent UAT experience, primarily in manual testing for large enterprise or government project
• Must have worked on minimum 2 national-level e-Governance, public sector, enterprise, or marketplace projects in a UAT lead or ownership role
• Must have 3+ years of team handling experience, leading 7–8 QA/UAT members, including task assignment, review, mentoring, and delivery ownership
• Must have complete ownership of UAT activities, including UAT planning, execution, acceptance sign-off, defect management, retesting, and regression cycles.
• Must have strong hands-on manual testing experience, with the ability to create test scenarios and test cases from BRDs, user stories, functional documents, and Figma/UI screens.
• Must be able to understand HLD/LLD documents and API specifications and perform manual API testing based on business logic.
• Must have BE/BTech/MTech/MBA (BSc/BCA alone is not acceptable; with Bsc/BCA candidates must have a relevant postgraduate degree MCA/MTech)

Preferred:

• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent is preferred

Ideal Candidate:

• 8 + years’ experience in UAT, with at least 2 National-level e-Governance solutions / Enterprise platforms / Marketplace projects.
• Proficiency in test planning, execution oversight, acceptance criteria definition, defect triage, regression cycle management.
• Proficient in understanding business requirements by going through BRDs, User Stories, Figma screens to define test scenarios and test cases.
• Ability to analyze high level and low-level design documents, API specifications to identify the business logic developed and create test cases to test the APIs.
• Hands-on experience of defining high quality test scenarios, test cases with ability to review and guide the test team members in doing the same.
• Education/Certifications: B.E./ B.Tech. / MTech/ MCA/ MS (Computer Science/IT)/ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent required.

We are currently looking for a detail-oriented Test Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should have expertise in manual testing, along with a basic understanding of Selenium automation testing and Python.

🌏 Job Location: On-Site

What You Will Be Doing

• Perform manual testing on software applications to ensure quality and performance standards are met.
• Create, maintain, and improve test frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Work together with Developers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve software issues.
• Assist in Test Automation efforts using Selenium and Python scripts.
• Develop end-to-end testing strategies and prepare test plans through the use of quality processes and methodologies.
• Writing and executing test plans for Functional, Regression, Integration, end-to-end performance and user acceptance testing.
• Create comprehensive documentation and communicate extensively with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-quality product.
• Recommend improvements in software to enhance user experience.
• Works together with the team to enhance and improve quality of the Web and Mobile apps.

What You’ll Need

• Min. 3 months of experience as a Test Engineer.
• Good debugging skills and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Manual Testing, Selenium (Basic), Python (Basic).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance Testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing concepts and methodologies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based Incentives.
• Working closely with the leadership & an opportunity for an accelerated career growth.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Access to company-sponsored training and resources.

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

• 1-3 years of experience or training received as a Software Tester for web and mobile applications or similar roles. #software testing
• Good knowledge of Test case preparation.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills to present findings to team members.
• Analyze client requirements for validity and feasibility
• Good logical thinking
• Execute all levels of testing - Software Tester - Manual testing
• Detect and track defects and inconsistencies

Manual Tester:

Mandatory Skills:

• Around 3-6 years experience in Manual testing complex applications
• Should be able to follow the defined test plan/strategy and perform test execution and report defects/track to closure
• Should be able to grasp the complex business domain fast and be agile in supporting the Product releases
• Experience using at least one defect management tool – JIRA, HP ALM, ADO etc.
• Software lifecycle management skills: understand the application development tasks and plan testing

Job Description :

Design test plans, write test cases, review functional requirement documentation, and present test strategies for team review

• Conduct integration, regression, ad-hoc, and edge-case testing as part of release cycles
• Analyze complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• Understand and represent customer needs in product feedback discussions
• Participate in release management and post deployment testing
• Work closely with developer team to ensure proper test coverage is done
• Documentation and Release cycle

Job Profile Requirement : 

Experience of testing web applications, mobile applications.

• Knowledge of Responsive Testing
• Working knowledge of functional, GUI, Performance and Regression testing
• Strong knowledge of QA procedures, principles, and tools.
• Strong verbal and written (technical) communication skills to explain bugs and other issues identified and produce bug reports, documentation and feedback to both product owners and software developers.
• Ability to work in an environment of perfection and compliance to web standards and high design quality benchmarks.
• Strong organisational and time management skills - know what you need to do, and DO IT!

• 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