Manual QA Engineer

Location: Pune, India (Hybrid)

Experience: 4+ years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Key Responsibilities

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Analyze business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications to develop comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.

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Perform functional, integration, regression, system, exploratory, usability, and end-to-end testing of web-based applications.

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Test RESTful APIs and validate request payloads, responses, status codes, error handling, and integrations with third-party systems.

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Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution using appropriate defect-management tools.

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Collaborate with developers, product managers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure high-quality releases.

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Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies.

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Prepare and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, regression suites, and test execution reports.

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Validate application data using SQL queries and perform backend database testing.

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Conduct production validation and support troubleshooting of issues reported by customers or internal teams.

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Perform cross-browser and responsive testing across supported browsers and devices.

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Identify gaps, edge cases, and potential risks early in the software development lifecycle.

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Provide clear updates on testing progress, defects, release readiness, and quality risks.

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Contribute to improving QA processes, testing standards, documentation, and overall product quality.

Required Skills and Qualifications

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4+ years of professional experience in manual software testing or quality assurance.

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Robust understanding of software testing concepts, methodologies, test levels, defect life cycles, and quality-assurance best practices.

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Hands-on experience testing web applications and complex end-to-end business workflows.

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Strong experience in functional, regression, integration, system,



exploratory, and user-acceptance testing.

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Experience testing RESTful APIs using tools such as Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, or similar tools.

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Ability to write SQL queries for validating data in relational databases such as MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.

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Experience creating detailed test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data, and execution reports.

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Experience using defect and test-management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, or similar platforms.

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Good understanding of client-server architecture, HTTP/HTTPS, browser developer tools, JSON, and API-based integrations.

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Experience working in Agile or Scrum development environments.

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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with close attention to detail.

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Ability to communicate defects, risks, and testing outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Ability to work independently, take ownership of assigned features, and manage testing priorities within release timelines.

Additional Skills — Good to Have

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Experience with UI automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO.

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Experience creating, maintaining, or executing automated regression test suites.

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Familiarity with programming or scripting languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.

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Experience with API automation tools or frameworks such as Rest Assured, Postman/Newman, or Karate.

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Understanding of automation frameworks such as Page Object Model, data-driven testing, and behavior-driven development.

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Familiarity with unit-testing frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, or Pytest.

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Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

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Familiarity with Git and standard source-control workflows.

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Basic knowledge of performance-testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6.

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Familiarity with accessibility, security, or mobile application testing.

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Experience testing financial-services, lending, payment, or other transaction-based applications.

📌 QA Engineer (Manual) (Pune)
🏢 Quinstreet Software India
📍 Pune