Role Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

- Requirement Analysis & Test Design
- 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.

- Functional & Regression Testing

- 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.

- Defect Management & Reporting

- 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.

- Basic Test Automation

- 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 easy scripts under guidance.

- Support smoke/regression suites execution using automation.

- Collaboration & Process Adherence

- 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.

- Documentation





- Maintain test case repositories and test evidence.

- Prepare test plans, test closure reports, and release readiness QA sign-offs.

Required Skills & Experience

- Experience:
- 3–5 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’s 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.

📌 Functional QA (Hyderabad)
🏢 Kumaran Systems
📍 Hyderabad