Manual QA Tester

• Plan, design, and execute manual test cases based on business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, sanity, exploratory, and user acceptance testing as required.
• Identify, reproduce, document, prioritize, and track software defects using the approved defect management process and tools.
• Validate defect fixes and perform regression testing to ensure that changes do not introduce new issues.
• Work closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve testing issues.
• Review requirements and user stories early in the development lifecycle and identify gaps, ambiguities, risks, and testability concerns.
• Maintain test scenarios, test cases, test data, and test execution results with appropriate traceability to requirements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support release validation and provide clear testing status, defect summaries, risks, and quality recommendations to stakeholders.
• Perform database validation and basic data verification using SQL when required.
• Ensure testing activities follow established QA standards, processes, documentation practices, and project timelines.

Qualifications

Education/ Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• 1 to 3 years of hands-on experience in manual software testing, preferably in web-based or enterprise applications.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum software development environment.
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, or equivalent tools preferred.
  • Experience with API testing tools such as Postman is preferred.