Quality Assurance Manual Tester

Key Responsibilities: 

• Strong collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, provide status updates, and ensure alignment on testing priorities and objectives. 

• Manually executing functional, regression, and smoke tests during integration and system test phases 

• Documenting test results and effectively communicating them to the team 

• Ensuring thorough testing and doing your part to ensure project goals are met 

• Reporting issues in defect tracking system 

• Participating in internal defect triage discussions, ensuring successful resolution of found defects 

• Updating test plans to reflect changes in requirements 

• Ability to identify, document and prioritize software defects based on severity and impact, with a proven track record of reducing defect resolution time by 10% within a release cycle. 

• Familiarity with various testing methodologies such as functional testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing, with the ability to adapt testing strategies based on project requirements and constraints increasing testing efficiency. 

• Defining UAT test cases, facilitating testing sessions, and ensuring timely resolution of issues, resulting in successful UAT sigh-ff within agreed timelines for major releases. 

• Investigate and analyze production defects reported by users, prioritize them based on severity and impact, and work with development teams to resolve issues in a timely manner. 

Skills and Competencies 

• 2+ years of proven experience testing browser-based software applications. 

• Deep experience with drafting manual test cases and executing manual test cases. 

• Knowledge of testing and quality assurance methodologies. 

• Great understanding of the Defect Life Cycle. 

• Ability to execute test cases in latest desktop, tablet and mobile devices on latest browsers. 

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to effectively interact with varied and diverse audiences. 

• Experience with JIRA and TestRail isdesired 

• Proven success working as a member of a fast-paced software development team 

• Experience in the full software development life cycle from design to deployment 

• An agile mindset - you are flexible in your approach and able to pivot when necessary 

• Ability to juggle competing priorities, keep to tasks and deadlines, and be organized