Manual Tester

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a Manual QA Tester or Software Test Engineer.
• Strong understanding of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience creating and executing:
• Test Plans
• Test Cases
• Test Scenarios
• Regression Testing
• Functional Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experience logging, tracking, and managing defects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work in Agile/Scrum environments.

Required Technical Skills:

• Manual Testing
• Test Case Design
• Test Execution
• Defect Management
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Smoke Testing
• Sanity Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• UAT
• SQL (basic to intermediate)
• Data Validation
• API Testing (Postman or Swagger)
• Jira
• Azure DevOps or ALM
• Confluence

Preferred Skills:

• Basic Automation knowledge (Selenium or Cypress)
• REST API Testing
• JSON/XML Validation
• Oracle or SQL Server
• Agile Scrum
• TestRail or Zephyr
• Banking, Healthcare, Insurance, or Financial Services domain experience

Responsibilities:

• Review business and functional requirements.
• Create detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Execute manual testing for new features and enhancements.
• Perform regression, integration, system, and UAT testing.
• Validate application functionality and business requirements.
• Perform SQL queries for backend data validation.
• Report, document, and track defects using Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with developers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners to resolve issues.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure software quality before production deployment.