Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Functional Test Lead with strong hands-on expertise in Mobile Application Testing (Android/iOS) and API Testing. The candidate should be capable of independently leading end-to-end testing activities, reviewing test coverage, managing defects, and guiding QA team members.Experience in Digital Payments, Banking, FinTech, or transaction-intensive applications is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end functional testing for Mobile and API-based applications.
Define test approach, test scenarios, test cases, test data, and execution plans.
Perform Mobile Testing across Android and iOS platforms.
Perform REST/SOAP API testing using Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or SOAPUI.
Validate API requests/responses, HTTP methods, status codes, JSON/XML payloads, authentication, and error scenarios.
Test end-to-end transaction scenarios including success, failure, timeout, reversal, retry, and reconciliation.
Perform functional, integration, regression, smoke, sanity, and negative testing.
Perform backend/data validation using SQL.
Manage defects using JIRA/HP ALM or similar tools.
Review test cases and defect reports prepared by QA team members.




Coordinate with Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders.
Mentor QA engineers and provide testing status, risks, and release-readiness updates.

Mandatory Skills
7+ years of QA / Functional Testing experience.
Strong hands-on Functional Testing experience.
Solid Mobile Testing Android & iOS experience.
Strong hands-on API Testing experience.
Experience with Postman and knowledge of Swagger/OpenAPI or SOAPUI.
Robust understanding of REST APIs, HTTP methods, status codes, JSON/XML, and request/response validation.
Valuable knowledge of SQL for backend validation.
Experience with JIRA / HP ALM or similar tools.
Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum.
Experience leading or coordinating a QA/Functional Testing team.

Preferred Skills
Experience in Digital Payments, Banking, FinTech, or Financial Services.
Understanding of payment transaction lifecycle, reconciliation, settlement, refunds, and reversals.
Exposure to microservices and application log analysis.
Basic exposure to API/UI automation is an added advantage

📌 Hiring Functional Test Lead Mumbai
🏢 Qapitol QA
📍 Mumbai