Manual QA Engg (DB+API must)

Manual QA Engineer - This is a Manual QA role where SQL and API are important.

Location: Pune, India (Hybrid)

Experience: 4+ years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications to develop comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, exploratory, usability, and end-to-end testing of web-based applications.
• Test RESTful APIs and validate request payloads, responses, status codes, error handling, and integrations with third-party systems.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution using appropriate defect-management tools.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure high-quality releases.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies.
• Prepare and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, regression suites, and test execution reports.
• Validate application data using SQL queries and perform backend database testing.
• Conduct production validation and support troubleshooting of issues reported by customers or internal teams.
• Perform cross-browser and responsive testing across supported browsers and devices.
• Identify gaps, edge cases, and potential risks early in the software development lifecycle.
• Provide clear updates on testing progress, defects, release readiness, and quality risks.
• Contribute to improving QA processes, testing standards, documentation, and overall product quality.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in manual software testing or quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of software testing concepts, methodologies, test levels, defect life cycles, and quality-assurance best practices.
• Hands-on experience testing web applications and complex end-to-end business workflows.
• Strong experience in functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and user-acceptance testing.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs using tools such as Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, or similar tools.
• Ability to write SQL queries for validating data in relational databases such as MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
• Experience creating detailed test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data, and execution reports.
• Experience using defect and test-management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, or similar platforms.
• Good understanding of client-server architecture, HTTP/HTTPS, browser developer tools, JSON, and API-based integrations.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum development environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with close attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate defects, risks, and testing outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of assigned features, and manage testing priorities within release timelines.

Additional Skills Good to Have

• Experience with UI automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO.
• Experience creating, maintaining, or executing automated regression test suites.
• Familiarity with programming or scripting languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Experience with API automation tools or frameworks such as Rest Assured, Postman/Newman, or Karate.
• Understanding of automation frameworks such as Page Object Model, data-driven testing, and behavior-driven development.
• Familiarity with unit-testing frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, or Pytest.
• Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with Git and standard source-control workflows.
• Basic knowledge of performance-testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
• Familiarity with accessibility, security, or mobile application testing.
• Experience testing financial-services, lending, payment, or other transaction-based applications.