Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Experience Required: 2-3 years
Job Summary
We are hiring QA Engineers with 2 to 3 years of experience for our Pune office. This is a full-time, work-from-office position, and candidates must be available to attend the office daily.
The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation in manual testing, test-case preparation, defect reporting, API testing, and database validation. The candidate should be comfortable testing web-based applications and working with developers, senior QA engineers, product managers, and business analysts in an Agile environment.
Basic exposure to automation testing using Selenium or a similar tool will be an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand functional requirements, user stories, workflows, acceptance criteria, and business rules.
- Participate in requirement discussions and raise questions about unclear or missing requirements.
- Create detailed test scenarios, test cases, checklists, and test data.
- Execute functional, regression, integration, smoke, sanity, exploratory, and user-interface testing.
- Test web applications across supported browsers and screen resolutions.
- Verify field validations, business rules, calculations, navigation, permissions, and error messages.
- Test REST APIs using Postman or similar tools.
- Validate API request methods, headers, payloads, status codes, response data, and error responses.
- Perform basic database validation using MySQL or Oracle queries.
- Write SQL queries using filters, joins, sorting, and basic aggregate functions.
- Compare data displayed in the application with API responses and database records.
- Report defects with clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, screenshots, videos, logs, and other supporting evidence.
- Assign appropriate severity and priority recommendations based on the defect’s impact.
- Retest resolved defects and perform regression testing for affected functionality.
- Work with developers and senior QA engineers to reproduce and troubleshoot issues.
- Maintain test cases, test execution results, defect records, and regression checklists.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Communicate testing progress, blockers, risks, and incomplete coverage to the QA lead or project team.
- Support release validation, production verification, and post-release testing when required.
- Create and maintain basic automation scripts under the guidance of senior QA engineers.
- Use Git for basic activities such as cloning repositories, pulling changes, creating branches, committing changes, and pushing test scripts.
- Follow established QA processes, documentation standards, and testing practices.
Required Skills
Manual and Functional Testing
- Strong knowledge of manual testing fundamentals.
- Experience creating test scenarios, test cases, checklists, and test data.
- Experience performing functional, regression, integration, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing.
- Understanding of positive, negative, boundary-value, and validation testing.
- Ability to understand business workflows and identify common edge cases.
- Experience reporting and tracking defects using JIRA or a similar tool.
- Ability to clearly document defects and testing results.
API Testing
- Hands-on experience testing REST APIs using Postman.
- Understanding of GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods.
- Understanding of request headers, query parameters, path parameters, authentication, and JSON payloads.
- Ability to validate HTTP status codes, response fields, data types, and error messages.
- Ability to perform positive and negative API testing.
- Basic knowledge of Postman collections, environments, and variables.
- Basic exposure to Postman test scripts is preferred.
Database Testing
- Working knowledge of MySQL or Oracle.
- Ability to write basic SQL queries using SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, and JOIN.
- Ability to validate records created or updated through the application.
- Understanding of primary keys, foreign keys, table relationships, and basic data constraints.
- Ability to compare user-interface or API data with database values.
Automation Testing
- Basic knowledge of Selenium or a similar automation tool.
- Understanding of locators, browser actions, waits, assertions, and test execution.
- Basic scripting or programming knowledge is preferred.
- Ability to understand, execute, and make minor updates to existing automation scripts.
- Willingness to develop automation-testing skills.
Tools and Version Control
- Postman
- JIRA or a similar defect-tracking tool
- MySQL or Oracle query tools
- Browser developer tools
- Selenium or a similar automation tool
- Git for basic version-control activities
AI-Assisted Testing Tools
Familiarity with AI-assisted tools such as:
- ChatGPT
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude
- Other AI-supported testing or development tools
The candidate may use AI tools for:
- Drafting and refining test scenarios
- Identifying negative and boundary test cases
- Understanding technical or business workflows
- Generating sample test data
- Creating or reviewing basic SQL queries
- Understanding API errors and application logs
- Assisting with basic automation scripts
- Improving defect descriptions and test documentation
Note: Candidates must demonstrate strong manual-testing fundamentals and should not rely solely on AI-generated output. All generated test cases, queries, scripts, and recommendations must be reviewed and validated before use.
Eligibility Criteria
- 2 to 3 years of professional experience in QA or software testing.
- Good understanding of SDLC, STLC, and the defect lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience testing web-based applications.
- Experience in test-case design, execution, and defect reporting.
- Basic practical experience with API testing using Postman.
- Working knowledge of SQL and database validation.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with developers, QA engineers, and product teams.
- Willingness to learn automation, integration testing, and advanced QA practices.
- Must be comfortable working daily from the Pune office.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience testing SaaS, B2B, eCommerce, CRM, ERP, procurement, reporting, or workflow-based applications.
- Exposure to integration testing involving APIs and databases.
- Basic experience with Selenium or another automation framework.
- Understanding of Agile or Scrum methodology.
- Exposure to cross-browser and responsive-web testing.
- Experience validating role-based permissions or configurable workflows.
- Basic familiarity with CI/CD concepts.
- Experience working in sprint-based product-development teams.
Work Location Requirement
This is a work-from-office role based in Kalyani Nagar, Pune.
Candidates must be able to reliably commute to the office or relocate to Pune before joining. Daily in-office attendance is required.
Pay: ₹350,000.00 - ₹700,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Health insurance
- Internet reimbursement
- Leave encashment
- Life insurance
- Provident Fund
Work Location: In person
