Manual QA Engineer

You'll be the quality owner for mobile, web, and backend user journey sturning 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: - Perform API testing using tools like Postman and Rest Assured. - Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (e. g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). - Work closely with developers, product managers, and QA leads to understand requirements and design test strategies. - Conduct regression, smoke, sanity, and end-to-end testing in agile/scrum environments. - Identify and log defects, and work with developers to resolve them quickly. - Track test coverage and quality metrics, and provide regular updates to stakeholders. - Ensure test cases and test results are documented and up to date in tools like JIRA, TestRail, or Zephyr. Requirements: - Strong manual testing across mobile + web + 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). Good to have: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 2-6 years of experience in software quality assurance, preferably in an Agile development environment. - Proficiency in test automation using industry-standard frameworks (e. g., WebdriverIO, Playwright, Mocha, Appium, JUnit, TestNG). - Proficient in at least one programming/scripting language (e. g. Javascript, Java, Python). - Experience with performance testing (JMeter, k6) and security tools (OWASP ZAP, Snyk). Company Summary Pice is an early-stage fintech startup proudly backed by Nexus Venture Partners and 9 other renowned Angel investors. We are bringing the business banking stack (with all associated features and benefits) to sole proprietors and unregistered business owners in a completely digital first avatar. This is a leapfrog from the current manual and physically intensive process that businesses have to go through to get an account. Thus allowing us to serve a largely untapped segment of the market. Why Join Us We are a young company with an evolving culture of transparency, inclusivity, and disrupting the status quo with great ideas to thrive in. We have a lean team of smart peers, who are proud of what they do and fun to work with.

Required Skills ['API Testing', 'Database Testing', 'JMeter', 'Manual Testing', 'Mobile Apps Testing', 'Appium', 'Java', 'JavaScript', 'Performance Testing', 'Python', 'Quality Assurance', 'SDET']

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