Sr. Functional Test Engineer

Job Title - Senior Functional Test Engineer - Sr. Analyst -ACS Song

Management Level: Level- 10-Sr. Analyst

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Agile Sprint Testing

Good to have skills: API Testing

Experience: 3-5 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

At Accenture Song, delivering top-notch solutions means ensuring development outcomes align with expectations. We are looking for a detail-oriented Senior Manual Tester to ensure the quality and reliability of our applications. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in manual testing, defect management, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment

Roles & Responsibilities

• Take ownership of requirement analysis by thoroughly understanding, reviewing, and clarifying business and technical requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop sprint-wise test plans by identifying scope, timelines, and testing activities based on prioritized requirements and sprint goals.
• Design and document high-quality test cases using test management tools such as TestRail, Xray, TestLink, or similar, ensuring complete coverage of acceptance criteria
• Perform integration, functional, regression, smoke, or sanity testing across different platforms
• Understand the backend testing and knowledge in API functional testing in Postman tool.
• Perform API testing using Postman, validate request/response structures, and interpret Swagger/OpenAPI definitions to ensure proper implementation and coverage of expected behaviors
• Identify, document, and track defects using tools like JIRA.
• Work closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to clarify requirements.
• Participate in Agile sprint planning, stand-up meetings, and retrospectives.
• Ensure test coverage by analyzing business requirements and user stories.
• Participate in release and deployment activities, including creating release notes and verifying successful deployments.
• Validate bug fixes and perform retesting as needed.
• Provide detailed test reports and contribute to test documentation.
• Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and assist stakeholders with test execution.
• Collaborate with developers and product owners to understand requirements and identify potential issues.
• Perform various levels of testing, including UI, functional, regression, and smoke testing.
• Report, track, and verify software defects to ensure timely resolution.
• Participate in release and deployment activities, including creating release notes and verifying successful deployments.
• Continuously improve the quality assurance process, including identifying automation and process improvement areas.

Professional & Technical Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in manual software testing.
• Experience in test methodologies like - Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, SDLC/STLCS
• Experience with different types of testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, UAT, API Testing
• Experience in Agile sprint process (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in Test Management Tools: TestRail, Xray, TestLink, Zephyr or similar tool
• Experience in Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good to have knowledge/experience in the E-commerce domain.
• Automation Tools (basic understanding or collaboration with automation team): Cypress, Selenium
• API Testing Tools: Postman, Swagger
• Excellent communication skills to interact with developers, POs, and BA's
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including developers, BAs, and POs to ensure quality deliverables
• Good documentation and reporting skills
• Basic knowledge of version Control: Git, Bitbucket
• API Testing (Preferred)
• Log Monitoring & Analysis: Grafana, Kibana
• Strong capability to work independently as well as part of a team, providing mentorship and guidance to junior testers.

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