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.
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.
- Understand and analyze functional and business requirements.
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.
- Perform end-to-end functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
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.
- Raise defects with clear steps to reproduce, impact analysis, and supporting evidence.
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 simple scripts under guidance.
- Execute existing automated test scripts.
- Support smoke/regression suites execution using automation.
- Collaborate with automation QA to identify test cases suitable for 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.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and DevOps teams.
Documentation
- Maintain test case repositories and test evidence.
- Prepare test plans, test closure reports, and release readiness QA sign-offs.
- Maintain test case repositories and test evidence.
Experience:
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in functional/manual testing of web or enterprise applications.
- 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.
- Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC.
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.
- Exposure to test automation tools (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, or similar).
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.
- Knowledge of API testing using Postman/REST client tools.
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.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in functional or manual testing of web or enterprise applications
- Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC
- Experience preparing and executing detailed test cases and scenarios
- Knowledge of functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, and sanity testing
- Experience with defect lifecycle management using JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
- Exposure to test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, or similar
- Ability to execute existing automation scripts and understand basic scripting concepts
- Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language such as Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Knowledge of API testing using Postman or REST client tools
- Basic understanding of SQL for data validation
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines for test execution
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work in an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline
- Relevant testing certifications such as ISTQB
- Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams
- Prior experience in Banking or Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, or Retail
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
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