Quality Assurance Engineer - Manual/Automation Testing

About the Role :

We are looking for a highly motivated QA Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Your mission will be to ensure the highest quality of our software products by spotting issues before they affect our customers. This role requires a proactive mindset, strong attention to detail, and the ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities without compromising thoroughness.

Key Responsibilities :

- Identify gaps, bugs, and potential points of failure early in the development lifecycle to prevent downstream issues.

- Adapt rapidly to changing project priorities, maintaining precision and accuracy in all testing activities.

- Drive the testing process with the urgency and focus of a live product launch, ensuring every release meets quality standards.

- Go beyond checklists and standard test plans by taking full ownership of product quality and user experience.

- Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective test strategies.

- Execute manual and automated test cases across functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.

- Report, track, and verify defects efficiently using bug tracking tools and provide actionable feedback to development teams.

- Continuously improve testing processes, frameworks, and tools to increase coverage, efficiency, and reliability.

- Participate in release planning and post-release validation to ensure smooth rollouts.

Qualifications :

- 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, with exposure to manual testing, automated testing, or a blend of both.

- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand complex software products from an end-user perspective and design realistic, effective test scenarios.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to think critically about product behavior and potential failure modes.

- Proven track record of working effectively in fast-paced, agile environments where priorities can change rapidly.

- Experience in designing and executing test cases rapidly without sacrificing thoroughness or accuracy.

- Comfortable validating demos, conducting exploratory testing, and performing comprehensive regression tests within tight deadlines.

- Familiarity with common QA tools such as Selenium, JIRA, TestRail, Postman, Jenkins, or equivalent frameworks.

- Basic knowledge of scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Java) is a plus for test automation.

- Strong communication skills, able to clearly articulate bugs, risks, and quality concerns to technical and non-technical team members.

- A proactive approach to quality ownership not just testing whats given, but anticipating what might go wrong.