Quality Assurance Manual Test Engineer

Description :

You'll be the quality owner for mobile, web, and backend user journeys, turning product requirements into crisp test scenarios, executing deep exploratory tests, validating data flows (APIs + events), and keeping releases ship-ready in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Responsibilities :

- Translate PRDs/user stories into risk-based test plans, test cases, and checklists; maintain coverage maps for features and regressions.

- Execute functional, regression, smoke, usability, and exploratory testing across Flutter, React Native, and web apps on real devices/emulators and multiple browsers.

- Validate APIs and event flows for Go microservices : request/response correctness, auth/roles, idempotency, retries, and Kafka consumer-producer behaviors (ordering, DLQs).

- Perform data validation in PostgreSQL/DynamoDB; verify caches in Redis; sanity check S3/artifact links where relevant.

- Own release readiness : test runs, sign-offs, sanity on staging/pre-prod, hotfix verification, and post-release monitoring.

- Use observability tools (logs/metrics/traces in CloudWatch/Grafana/OpenTelemetry) to triage defects and provide high-signal bug reports.

- Conduct payments and fintech flows testing (KYC, OTP, subscription/renewals, refunds, recon), including edge/negative cases and network variability.

- Manage test data (synthetic/masked), environments, and device/browser matrix; track defects in Jira and drive bug triage with engineering/PM.

- Leverage GenAI (Copilot/OpenAI or similar) to draft test scenarios, generate boundary cases, summarize logs, and convert requirements to Gherkin while protecting PII.

- Contribute to acceptance criteria (Given/When/Then), regression suite upkeep, and lightweight smoke checks in CI (even if authored by automation peers).

Requirements :

- 3-4 years in manual QA for consumer/mobile-first products (fintech is a plus).

- Hands-on across mobile, web, and API test cycles in agile teams.

- Strong written/spoken communication, crisp documentation, and an ownership mindset.

- Tools you'll likely use are Jira, TestRail/Zephyr, Postman/Newman, Charles/Proxyman/Fiddler, BrowserStack/Firebase Test Lab, Crashlytics/Instabug, CloudWatch/Grafana, Git basics, and OpenAI/Copilot for test productivity.

Must-have skills :

- Strong manual testing across mobile, web, and API; excellent exploratory testing instincts and defect isolation. API testing with Postman/Newman; comfort with JSON, HTTP, auth flows, headers/cookies, and schema diffs.

- Mobile testing : real devices/emulators, deep links, push notifications, permissions, app upgrades, and crash triage (Crashlytics/Instabug).

- Web testing : multi-browser sanity (Chromium/Firefox/WebKit), responsive layouts, cookies/storage, and feature flags.

- Data and tools : SQL for Postgres, basics of DynamoDB queries, reading Kafka messages, and validating Redis keys/TTL.

- Debugging toolkit : Charles/Proxyman/Fiddler, browser devtools, ADB/Xcode tools, log scraping (CloudWatch/Kibana), and network throttling.

- Process : Jira + TestRail/Zephyr, clear bug reports (STR, actual vs expected, env, logs, attachments), and versioned test assets.

- Security and compliance awareness : PCI-DSS basics, PII handling, data masking, and session/auth testing.

- Comfortable using GenAI safely to speed up test design and failure summaries (prompt hygiene, no sensitive data in prompts).

Nice to have :

- Gherkin/BDD exposure; writing acceptance tests alongside PM/Dev.

- Basic performance smoke testing (k6/Locust) and accessibility checks (WCAG basics).

- Familiarity with contract testing concepts and CI quality gates.

- Understanding of Kafka patterns (exactly-once semantics, consumer lag, retries) and how they impact testing.