We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manual QA Engineer who will be a quality champion throughout the product lifecycle. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and developers to ensure that quality is not an afterthought but a key driver from the requirement phase to release.
This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to clearly communicate quality concerns and improvements to cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end quality of one or more product modules and ensure timely delivery of quality releases.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams from the early stages of requirement gathering to help define clear, testable requirements.
- Create comprehensive, well-structured test plans, test cases, and test scenarios based on requirements and user flows.
- Perform thorough manual testing including functional, regression, UI/UX, exploratory, smoke, and sanity testing
- Proactively identify gaps in quality and drive discussions to close them early in the product cycle.
- Advocate for quality best practices including shift-left testing and early defect prevention.
- Define and track quality metrics (e.g., defect density, test coverage, defect leakage, etc.) and present insights to stakeholders.
- Conduct root cause analysis on defects and ensure proper feedback loops to the development team.
- Continuously improve testing processes to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Conduct root cause analysis on defects and ensure proper feedback loops to the development team.
- Work effectively in an asynchronous collaboration model, engaging with developers and engineers primarily through Slack and other remote collaboration tools.
- Collaborate in an offshore-onshore model, working closely with distributed teams across time zones to drive quality success.
Skills and Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in manual testing of web and mobile applications in a product development environment.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and QA methodologies.
- Proven ability to analyze complex requirements and drive clarity and testability.
- Experience in designing test cases, maintaining traceability to requirements, and managing test execution.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with developers, product managers, and leadership.
- Experience with defect management and tools like Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar.
- Exposure to basic SQL, API testing (using tools like Postman), and understanding of client-server architecture is a plus.
- Experience in reporting and communicating quality metrics to stakeholders.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences.
