Manual QA Tester

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple testing initiatives simultaneously across projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Define, review, and approve test strategies, plans, and quality assurance deliverables.
• Lead testing efforts throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training to QA team members.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for applications, business processes, and testing methodologies.
• Collaborate with senior management, business stakeholders, developers, and global technical teams.
• Test Planning & Execution
• Lead all phases of testing, including planning, design, scripting, execution, defect management, debugging, and reporting.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts to validate business and technical requirements.
• Ensure full traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and test results.
• Support functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing activities.
• Analyze, prioritize, and communicate defects based on business impact and technical risk.
• Provide regular testing status updates, risk assessments, and progress reports to project stakeholders.
• Test Automation & Continuous Improvement
• Design and automate test cases using existing automation frameworks.
• Evaluate and implement new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency, coverage, and quality metrics.
• Monitor and report software quality metrics and testing effectiveness.
• Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely within Agile Scrum teams to coordinate testing activities and sprint deliverables.
• Participate in architectural discussions, defect reviews, enhancement planning, and solution design sessions.
• Support change management activities and help resolve issues arising throughout the development lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Testing, or related technical roles.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and Agile/Scrum practices.
• Demonstrated expertise in test strategy development, test execution, defect management, and quality reporting.
• Experience supporting multiple applications, platforms, and development environments.
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities and multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.