Essential Responsibilities and Duties
- Design and execute test cases for user stories, exploratory testing, regression, and end-to-end test scenarios.
- Develop and maintain reusable test suites across releases and projects.
- Collaborate with product managers and developers to clarify requirements and ensure testability throughout the SDLC.
- Track and triage defects; perform root cause analysis and ensure timely resolution.
- Test case development using Gherkin
- Contribute to identifying automation opportunities and assist in test data preparation, automation maintenance, and test results validation.
- Maintain QA metrics dashboards to support continuous improvement.
Required Skills and qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in CS, CIS, IT, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of manual software testing experience in Agile environments.
- Strong experience with exploratory and structured testing across web-based platforms.
- 3+ years of writing SQL queries and validating data using MS SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or AWS Pipelines.
- Experience working with version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab) and issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
- Strong communication and analytical skills; comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently in dynamic, ambiguous environments.
Preferred:
- Experience writing test cases using Gherkin or similar BDD syntax.
- Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman, ReadyAPI, or REST Assured.
- Exposure to automated test frameworks, such as Playwright, Selenium/TestNG, or Cypress.
- Experience supporting automation engineers with test data management or maintenance of automated scripts.
Key Attributes
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
- Able to operate independently and handle changing priorities.
- Strong communication skills
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