Software Development Engineer Testing (SDET)

Job Title: QA Tester (Manual Testing)

Department: Technology

Location: Remote

Company: Mercer Talent Enterprise

Company Overview:

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a leading provider of talent management solutions, dedicated to helping organizations optimize their workforce. We foster a collaborative and innovative work environment where our team members can thrive and contribute to our mission of enhancing talent strategies for our clients.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a detail-oriented QA Tester to join our Lighthouse Tech Team. In this role, you will be responsible for performing manual testing of our software applications to ensure they meet the highest quality standards. You will work closely with developers and product managers to identify testing requirements and ensure that all features function as intended.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute manual test cases and document results.
• Identify, report, and track defects in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with the development team to understand application functionality and testing requirements.
• Participate in test planning and design activities.
• Conduct regression testing and ensure that existing functionality is not affected by new changes.
• Provide feedback on usability and user experience.
• Assist in the development of testing documentation and processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in manual software testing.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and best practices.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g., Azure,JIRA, Bugzilla).
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Professional development opportunities.

Greetings from VEST Software

About VTEST 

Founded in 2015 in Pune, VTEST (www.vtestcorp.com) is a pure-play Software Testing services firm based out of Pune, India registered in Atlanta, US and Melbourne, Australia and recognized with Great Place to Work & NASSCOM certified. VTEST works with clients across the globe and employs Manual and Automation Testers to implement best testing practices for all types of testing. Our testers work Remote or from VTEST and client offices across India and international locations.

We are seeking a skilled Manual QA Tester with Salesforce testing experience to join our QA team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in manual testing methodologies along with hands-on experience testing Salesforce-based applications along with BDD/Gherkin syntax and excellent communication skills are essential for this role.

Job Skills: Manual_Salesforce Testing with BDD/Gherkin and AI usage.

Work Location: Work from Office - Viman Nagar, Pune

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days in a week)

Qualifications: Any Graduate (Yes, at VTEST we accept ANY Graduate irrespective of Specialization, College, University. If you can TEST then apply to VTEST)

Years of Experience: 4 to 6 Years 

Joining Availability - Immediate to 30 days

Required Skills:

• 4 - 6 years of manual testing experience with at least 2+ years in Salesforce application testing.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud/Service Cloud).
• Salesforce certification (e.g., Salesforce Administrator or Platform App Builder) is a strong plus.
• Proficiency in writing test cases, test plans, and understanding end-to-end business workflows.
• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber/Gherkin) is mandatory.
• Worked on AI testing.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – must be able to effectively articulate issues and collaborate with teams.

What You Will Do:

• Understand and analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and technical documentation.
• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive manual test cases for Salesforce and integrated applications.
• Conduct various types of testing – functional, regression, UI, integration, and system testing.
• Validate Salesforce configurations, customizations (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning components), workflows, and reports.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and stakeholders to ensure quality deliverables.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and drive issues to resolution.
• Use tools such as JIRA, Zephyr, or similar for test management and defect tracking.
• Create and maintain test documentation, test data, and testing metrics.

VTEST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As a policy, VTEST provides equal employment opportunities, without any discrimination on the grounds of age, color, disability, marital status, nationality, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation. VTEST strives to maintain a work environment that is free from any harassment based on above considerations.

Below are a few links for you to refer to and know more about VTEST, our employee-friendly policies, our work ethics, and standards to start with -

Website www.vtestcorp.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/vtest/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vtestcorp

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vtest_software/  

Twitter https://twitter.com/vtestcorp

What does the role look like?

We are looking for a high-energy, detail-oriented, and technically-savvy Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE). Should be an excellent individual contributor capable of understanding and driving test execution with minimal help. Who can work towards understanding application performance, functionality, and features to great depth enabling them to report issues, take ownership and drive them to closure.

What will you be doing?
 Develop and execute automated tests and test plans
 Efficiently execute test cases across all functional areas of the products(API and App)
 Review product user interface for conformity to design guidelines
 Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
 Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process
 Work with Engineering and product to understand the overall product requirements and technical architecture and how each feature is implemented
 Ensure the highest quality product delivery with security.
 Evaluating and integrate open source and in house developed toolsets

What will you need ?
 Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
 Experience in manual testing for Application and APIs
 Experience in automation testing using available framework.
 Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, testing frameworks and tools
 Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test execution and reporting.
 Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical partners.
 Understanding & experience with software design pattern, restful APIs and microservice architecture
 Prior experience in start-ups or health-tech will be a plus

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!

Before a product is released to the public, it goes through a lot of quality assurance testing: the QA lead organizes and manages that testing. In fact, the QA lead is just as responsible for a successful product launch as the engineers or developers involved in that project. This is a skilled profession that requires previous experience in quality assurance, preferably in the same industry as the company posting the job, along with prior management experience. QA leads typically keep full-time hours, but they may experience periods of overtime closer to product rollouts. Candidates who enjoy testing products and working in fast-paced environments are a great fit for this role.

What you need to have:

• Review and analyze system specifications
• Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans
• Execute test cases (manual) and analyze results
• Evaluate product code according to specifications
• Create logs to document testing phases and defects
• Report bugs and errors to development teams
• Help troubleshoot issues
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle

• Proven 3+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role
• Experience in project management and QA methodology
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong organizational skills.

• Exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Perform various types of testing like sanity, functional, exploratory, integration, and system testing to ensure that the product delivered is of high quality.
• Support the Planning of test schedules in accordance with project scope/delivery dates and ensure that the timelines are adhered to without fail.
• Have very good knowledge of SDLC and STLC life cycles and working knowledge in agile.
• Work as part of cross-functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases.
• Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining a robust log of all test cases and test results.
• Very good at manual testing of web and windows based applications, web services testing, and integration testing of a complex system, iOS and Android applications.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting of bugs to developers so as to fix it and follow-ups.
• Lesson Learnt documents (based on testing inputs from the previous project)
• Suggestion Documents (to improve software quality)
• Leads test processes and delivers results to necessary stakeholders.
• Reviews changes or upgrades to existing tests, tools, and testing protocols.
• Good to have knowledge over Stockbroking applications, financial and capital market domain.

Desired Technical Skills and Experience

• Experience with Web Applications, iOS, and Android Applications.
• Passionate about understanding the application end to end.
• Effective communication skills to interact with internal stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Adaptable to the current requirement.
• High-level problem-solving skills, and the ability to project manage Knowledge of defect management process
• Strong understanding of software concepts and ability to quickly grasp new products and technologies.