Functional Quality Assurance Tester

Coforge; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge in Mississauga is seeking an experienced Functional QA Tester to support testing of cloud-based applications, integrations, and enhancements. The candidate will bring strong hands-on manual testing, AWS exposure, API and database testing, and an interest in using automation and AI to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

Key activities include designing and executing functional, regression, integration and exploratory tests within an AWS environment, performing API and SQL testing,

Qualifications

• Strong experience in functional/manual software testing.
• Experience testing cloud-based applications, preferably within AWS.
• Experience with API testing, database testing, and SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Zephyr Essentials, and Confluence.
• Experience with or a strong understanding of test automation.
• Comfortable using and experimenting with AI tools and applying AI to testing and automation activities.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile software delivery environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory test cases.
• Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios, edge cases, and potential gaps.
• Document, track, retest, and validate defects through resolution.
• Test applications and integrations within an AWS environment, including Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Perform API testing to validate requests, responses, payloads, integrations, and error scenarios.
• Perform database testing and SQL queries to validate data accuracy.
• Use logs and application data to investigate issues and support root‑cause analysis.
• Create and maintain test cases using Zephyr Essentials and manage defects and work items in Jira.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive and regression test cases.
• Work with automation tools and frameworks to develop or maintain automated tests.
• Use and experiment with AI tools to improve test‑case creation, test coverage, automation, troubleshooting, and overall QA efficiency.

Skills

Functional testing

Manual testing

AWS

API testing

Database testing

SQL

Jira

Zephyr Essentials

Confluence

Test automation

AI tools in testing

Agile

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Zephyr Essentials

Confluence

Postman

Job description

Role: Functional Quality Assurance (QA) Tester

Workplace type: Hybrid

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Functional QA Tester to support the testing of cloud-based applications, integrations, and enhancements. The ideal candidate will have strong hands‑on manual testing experience, exposure to AWS technologies, API and database testing skills, and an interest in using automation and AI to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory test cases.
• Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios, edge cases, and potential gaps.
• Document, track, retest, and validate defects through resolution.
• Test applications and integrations within an AWS environment, including Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Perform API testing to validate requests, responses, payloads, integrations, and error scenarios.
• Perform database testing and SQL queries to validate data accuracy and troubleshoot issues.
• Use logs and application data to investigate issues and support root‑cause analysis.
• Create and maintain test cases using Zephyr Essentials and manage defects and work items in Jira.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive and regression test cases.
• Work with automation tools and frameworks to develop or maintain automated tests.
• Use and experiment with AI tools to improve test‑case creation, test coverage, automation, troubleshooting, and overall QA efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in functional/manual software testing.
• Experience testing cloud-based applications, preferably within AWS.
• Experience with API testing, database testing, and SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Zephyr Essentials, and Confluence.
• Experience with or a strong understanding of test automation.
• Comfortable using and experimenting with AI tools and applying AI to testing and automation activities.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile software delivery environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Experience

• Testing serverless or event-driven AWS applications.
• Working with Lambda, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and S3.
• API testing tools such as Postman.
• Automating functional, regression, or API testing.
• Using AI‑assisted tools to generate test scenarios, support automation, analyze results, or improve QA processes.