Role Overview

We are looking for aFunctional Quality Assurance Engineerwith 4-6 years of experiencein manual/functional testing andbasic 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 (, Selenium, Cypress, or similar) to: Execute existing automated test scripts.
Update or maintain simple scripts under guidance.
Support smoke/regression suites execution using automation.

- Collaboration & Process Adherence

Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Dev Ops 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 infunctional/manual testingof web or enterprise applications.

- Functional QA Skills:

Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC.
Experience in preparing and executing detailed test cases and scenarios.
Positive knowledge of different testing types: functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, sanity.
Experience in defect lifecycle management using tools likeJIRA, Azure Dev Ops, or similar.

- Basic Automation Skills:

Exposure to test automation tools (,Selenium Web Driver, Cypress, Playwright, or similar).
Ability to execute existing automation scripts and understand basic scripting concepts.
Familiarity with at least one programming/scripting language (, Java, Java Script, Python) is an added advantage.

- Technical Skills (Nice to Have / As per project):

Knowledge ofAPI testingusing 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 inComputer Science,Information Technology, or related discipline.

- Equivalent experience with relevant certifications in testing (, ISTQB) will be an added advantage.

Preferred Attributes

- Experience working inAgile/Scrumteams.

- Prior experience in domain areas such asBanking/Financial Services,Insurance,Healthcare, orRetail(customize as per your project).

- Willingness to upgrade skills in test automation and Dev Ops-related testing.

📌 Functional QA (India)
🏢 Kumaran Systems
📍 India