Functional QA

Job Summary

We are looking for a Functional Quality Assurance Engineer with 4-6 years of experience in manual/functional testing and basic exposure to test automation. The candidate will be responsible for understanding business requirements, designing and executing test scenarios, validating application functionality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality delivery.

Location: Telengana, India

Responsibilities

• Understand and analyze functional and business requirements.
• Prepare detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Participate in requirement walkthroughs and clarification sessions with BA/PO/development teams.
• Perform end-to-end functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
• Validate UI, workflow, business rules, and data integrity across modules.
• Execute test cases, log defects, and track them to closure.
• Raise defects with clear steps to reproduce, impact analysis, and supporting evidence.
• Work closely with developers to reproduce and troubleshoot issues.
• Provide daily/weekly test execution reports, defect status reports, and test summary reports.
• Collaborate with automation QA to identify test cases suitable for automation.
• Use basic automation tools/Frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, or similar) to execute existing automated test scripts.
• Update or maintain simple scripts under guidance.
• Support smoke/regression suites execution using automation.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and DevOps teams.
• Adhere to QA processes, standards, and best practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA methodologies and documentation.
• Maintain test case repositories and test evidence.
• Prepare test plans, test closure reports, and release readiness QA sign-offs.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: 35 years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing of web or enterprise applications.
• Functional QA Skills: Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC; Experience in preparing and executing detailed test cases and scenarios; Good knowledge of different testing types: functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, sanity; Experience in defect lifecycle management using tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Basic Automation Skills: Exposure to test automation tools (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, or similar); Ability to execute existing automation scripts and understand basic scripting concepts; Familiarity with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python) is an added advantage.
• Technical Skills (Nice to Have / As per project): Knowledge of API testing using Postman/REST client tools; Basic understanding of SQL for data validation; Exposure to CI/CD pipelines for test execution is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Good communication and documentation skills; Ability to work in an agile environment (Scrum/Kanban); Detail-oriented and quality-focused mindset.

Education

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Equivalent experience with relevant certifications in testing (e.g., ISTQB) will be an added advantage.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Prior experience in domain areas such as Banking/Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, or Retail (customize as per your project).
• Willingness to upgrade skills in test automation and DevOps-related testing.

Job Type

• Full time

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