Senior Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer – Manual Testing (Primary) with Automation Experience

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer with strong expertise in Manual Testing and a good understanding of Test Automation. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring product quality through comprehensive functional, integration, regression, and user-focused testing while contributing to automation initiatives to improve efficiency and coverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios and test conditions.

• Design, review, and execute detailed manual test cases.

• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and end-to-end testing.

• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution using defect management tools.

• Validate business workflows, edge cases, negative scenarios, and user experience aspects.

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Scrum teams to clarify requirements and ensure quality deliverables.

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and requirement review sessions.

• Support release validation, certification testing, and production verification activities.

• Contribute to automation efforts by identifying automation candidates and maintaining automated test scripts.

• Continuously improve test processes, test coverage, and quality metrics.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of experience in Software Testing with strong Manual Testing expertise.

• Extensive experience in Functional, Regression, System, Integration, and UAT testing.

• Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle.

• Experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Data, and Test Summary Reports.

• Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira.

• Good analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Automation Skills

• Basic to intermediate experience in test automation using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.

• Ability to create, execute, and maintain automated regression test scripts.

• Understanding of automation frameworks and CI/CD concepts.

• Experience in API testing using Postman, Rest Assured, or similar tools is desirable.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in enterprise web applications and complex business workflows.

• Exposure to database testing and SQL queries.

• Experience with test management tools such as Zephyr or TestRail.

• Exposure to AI-assisted testing tools and automation accelerators.

Key Competencies

• Strong attention to detail and quality mindset.

• Ability to independently drive testing activities.

• Critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

• Customer-focused approach to quality assurance.

• Mentoring and knowledge-sharing abilities.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Experience

2-4 years in software testing