Senior Manual QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive test strategy, test planning, and test case design for complex business and technical requirements across multiple releases.
• Lead execution of functional, regression, integration, smoke, exploratory, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for high-priority modules.
• Identify, document, prioritise, and track defects to closure using JIRA, Asana or similar tools, ensuring minimal leakage to production.
• Provide quality sign-off and Go/No-Go recommendations for releases based on test coverage, defect trends, and risk assessment.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to define acceptance criteria and ensure complete test coverage.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level QA testers on test design techniques, tool usage, and QA best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement of QA processes, documentation standards, and defect management workflows.
• Actively participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives as a senior voice in Agile teams.
• Support API testing efforts using tools like Postman and coordinate with automation teams to identify regression candidates.
• Prepare and present QA status reports, metrics, and risk summaries to stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements:

• Candidates should have at least 2 years of experience guiding or coordinating a small QA team.
• Expert-level knowledge of manual testing methodologies, test design techniques, and QA best practices.
• Strong command of writing and reviewing test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and bug reports for complex systems.
• Hands-on experience with test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of defect lifecycle management, severity/priority classification, and SLA-driven triage processes.
• Excellent analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong command of Agile/Scrum frameworks with experience operating as a senior QA representative in sprint ceremonies.
• Ability to mentor junior testers and contribute to QA capability building within the team.
• Design prompts that evaluate the AI's functionality, accuracy, robustness, safety, and reasoning.
• Business-Critical and Revenue Impact Testing: Ability to design and execute comprehensive test scenarios for subscription, billing, payment, and monetisation workflows.
• Deep knowledge of Accessibility Standards to perform testing on Web, Android and iOS.
• Good knowledge of WCAG Guidelines.
• Different Testing Types in Accessibility (Visual, Voice Over, Colour Contrast, Keyboard navigation).
• Good understanding of ARIA.
• Having hands-on experience using relevant Accessibility tools ( Axe, Wave, NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, Talkback).

Additional Requirements:

• ISTQB certification (Foundation/Advanced) or equivalent is highly preferred.
• Exposure to automation tools, performance testing, or CI/CD pipelines is a strong advantage.
• Experience working in client-facing or distributed team environments is a plus.
• Ability to perform Deep Root cause Analysis for different scenarios.
• Prompt-based AI testing.
• Ability to differentiate between traditional Software Testing and AI tool testing.
• Working knowledge of API testing using Postman; exposure to automation frameworks (Selenium/Playwright) is a strong plus.