Functional QA Engineer

FCS Software Solutions; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

FCS Software Solutions in Gurugram, India is seeking a detail-oriented Functional QA Engineer with 3 to 6 years of experience to ensure quality across web, mobile, and API-based applications. The role requires strong manual functional testing, API testing, and database validation within an Agile environment.

You will work with Jira for defect tracking, perform regression and integration testing, and collaborate with developers, analysts, and product owners to deliver reliable software solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in manual functional testing and API testing.
• Strong SQL knowledge for database validation.
• Experience with Jira for test management and defect tracking.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and design comprehensive test scenarios and cases.
• Execute end-to-end functional, regression, integration, and system tests.
• Validate functionality across web and mobile platforms.
• Perform API testing using Postman or Swagger.
• Verify payloads, auth, status codes, and error handling.
• Validate data integrity with SQL queries.
• Log and track defects in Jira and coordinate with teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide quality metrics.
• Prepare test execution reports and dashboards.

Skills

Functional Testing

API Testing

Database Testing

Jira

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Postman

Swagger

SQL

Job description

Job Role

Job Role: Functional QA Engineer

Experience

Experience: 3 to 6 Years

Work Location

Work Location: Gurugram
Working Hours: 8:30 AM to 05:30 PM

Job Summary

We are looking for a detail-oriented Functional QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of web, mobile, and API-based applications. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in manual functional testing, API testing, database validation, defect management, and Agile methodologies. Experience with Jira for test management and defect tracking is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business and functional requirements and prepare comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform end-to-end functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Validate application functionality across web and mobile platforms.
• Execute API testing using tools such as Postman or Swagger.
• Validate request/response payloads, authentication, status codes, and error handling.
• Perform database testing by validating data integrity using SQL queries.
• Verify backend data consistency between applications and databases.
• Log, track, and manage defects using Jira.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, and product owners to resolve issues.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Prepare test execution reports and provide quality metrics.

Required Skills

Functional Testing

• Test planning, test case design, and execution
• Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, Sanity, and UAT testing
• Requirement analysis and traceability

API Testing

• Hands-on experience with Postman, Swagger, or similar API testing tools
• REST API validation
• JSON/XML request and response validation
• Authentication methods (Bearer Token, OAuth, Basic Authentication)
• API collections and environment management

Database Testing

• Strong SQL knowledge
• Data validation and backend verification
• Writing complex SQL queries

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• ISTQB Foundation Certification is an added advantage.
• Exposure to automation testing (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar) is desirable.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps concepts.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems is a plus.