QA Engineer - Manual + Automation

Roles & Responsibilities | 4+ Years Experience

Core Responsibilities

- Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and technical documents to design effective test cases.
- Develop, maintain, and execute detailed test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for functional, integration, regression, system, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Perform manual testing across web applications and mobile apps on Android and iOS, including functional, regression, compatibility, usability, installation/update, and device/OS-specific scenarios.
- Validate mobile-specific scenarios such as installation/upgrade, permissions, notifications, deep links, orientation, background/foreground behavior, offline/poor-network conditions, and different screen sizes.
- Perform testing on physical devices and emulators/simulators across representative Android and iOS versions, and capture device logs/crash details when troubleshooting issues.
- Identify, log, track, and retest defects using tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, or similar.
- Ensure comprehensive test coverage and maintain traceability between requirements and test cases.
- Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Automation Testing Responsibilities

- Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts for web applications and, where applicable, mobile applications.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright or Selenium for web UI automation testing; exposure to Appium or a similar mobile automation framework is preferred.
- Candidate should have used Playwright and/or Selenium in previous projects and should be able to create and maintain automation test suites independently. Experience testing Android and/or iOS applications in real projects is also expected.
- Identify suitable manual test cases for automation and improve smoke and regression coverage through automation.
- Analyze automation failures and identify whether issues are related to application defects,



test scripts, test data, or environment/configuration.
- Maintain reusable automation components, page objects, test fixtures, test data, and utilities.
- Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
- Generate and review automation execution reports and communicate failures clearly to the development team.

Collaboration & Reporting

- Work closely with developers, product managers, and business analysts to clarify requirements and resolve issues.
- Provide timely and detailed test execution status reports to the QA Lead / Project Manager.
- Support UAT by assisting business users and validating fixes.
- Work with developers to improve application testability and contribute to continuous testing practices.

Quality Assurance Practices

- Follow industry best practices for QA, including risk-based testing and defect management.
- Ensure compliance with organizational quality standards and processes.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of testing practices, automation coverage, and methodologies.

Additional Expectations

- Mentor junior testers by sharing knowledge and reviewing test cases and automation scripts.
- Take ownership of testing for assigned modules or projects with minimal supervision.
- Provide input for test effort estimation and project planning.
- Identify opportunities for test optimization and improvements in QA processes.
- Be able to explain automation framework design, locator strategy, waits, assertions, reporting, test data management, and troubleshooting of flaky tests.

Key Skills Required





- Strong knowledge of STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
- Proficiency in writing test cases, test scenarios, and transparent bug reports.
- Experience with defect tracking tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, or similar.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Good understanding of functional, regression, integration, UAT, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing.
- Basic knowledge of SQL for backend data validation.
- Practical experience with Playwright or Selenium WebDriver.
- Hands-on mobile app testing experience on Android and/or iOS; familiarity with Appium or a similar mobile automation framework is an added advantage.
- Good understanding of Page Object Model (POM), reusable components, assertions, waits, test fixtures, and data-driven testing.
- Experience with at least one programming/scripting language such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python.
- Basic understanding of API testing and API automation using Postman, REST Assured, Playwright API testing, or similar.
- Familiarity with Git/version control and basic CI/CD concepts.
- Ability to troubleshoot flaky tests and improve automation reliability.
- Understanding of when a test case should be automated versus kept as a manual test.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience testing across multiple browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari/WebKit, and across representative Android/iOS devices and OS versions.
- Experience with mobile app testing, including native/hybrid apps, WebView flows, device permissions, network conditions, app lifecycle, and release validation, is preferred.
- Familiarity with Android Studio/ADB, Xcode device logs, crash logs, or similar mobile debugging tools is an advantage.
- Experience running automation tests in CI/CD pipelines and generating test reports.
- Basic knowledge of performance, accessibility, or security testing is an added advantage.

📌 Software Test Engineer [Manual + Automation] (Hyderabad)
🏢 CognitiveBotics
📍 Hyderabad