Junior QA Engineer (Agile)

A4 Technology Solutions; Mumbai; On-site; INR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

A4 Technology Solutions in Mumbai is seeking a Junior QA Engineer with 2-3 years of manual testing experience and a basic understanding of automation to join our Agile team. You will contribute to high-quality software by designing and executing test cases across functional areas.

Responsibilities include validating end-to-end scenarios, participating in sprint ceremonies, and collaborating with developers and Product Owners to improve product quality.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Manual Testing.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and software testing fundamentals.
• Solid knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with Jira and familiarity with test management tools like Xray.
• Understanding of shift-left testing and requirement ambiguity analysis.
• Basic understanding of Automation Testing (Selenium/Playwright).
• Basic knowledge of Jenkins and CI/CD concepts.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and user stories to identify gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, and potential risks.
• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, and end-to-end business scenarios.
• Follow shift-left testing practices by actively participating in requirement discussions and sprint planning.
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects with clear reproduction steps, expected results, and actual results.
• Collaborate with developers, Product Owners, and team members to improve product quality.
• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives).
• Understand testing effort estimation and story point assignment techniques (e.g., Planning Poker, Fibonacci estimation).
• Leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to improve test coverage, generate test scenarios, identify edge cases, and enhance QA productivity.
• Maintain basic exposure to automation testing and understand how automated tests integrate with CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Manual Testing

Agile/Scrum

Analytical thinking

Test case design

Communication

Tools

Jira

Xray

Selenium

Playwright

Jenkins

Job description

Job Title: Junior QA Engineer (Agile)

Experience: 2-3 Years

Role: 90% Manual Testing | 10% Automation Testing

Job Summary

We are looking for a detail-oriented and analytical Junior QA Engineer with 2-3 years of experience in Manual Testing and a basic understanding of Automation Testing. The ideal candidate should have strong functional testing fundamentals, an Agile mindset, good analytical skills, and the ability to identify requirement gaps to ensure product quality throughout the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and user stories to identify gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, and potential risks.
• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, and end-to-end business scenarios.
• Follow shift-left testing practices by actively participating in requirement discussions and sprint planning.
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects with clear reproduction steps, expected results, and actual results.
• Collaborate with developers, Product Owners, and team members to improve product quality.
• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives).
• Understand testing effort estimation and story point assignment techniques (e.g., Planning Poker, Fibonacci estimation).
• Leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to improve test coverage, generate test scenarios, identify edge cases, and enhance QA productivity.
• Maintain basic exposure to automation testing and understand how automated tests integrate with CI/CD pipelines.

Required Skills

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Manual Testing.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and software testing fundamentals.
• Solid knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with Jira and familiarity with test management tools like Xray.
• Understanding of shift-left testing and requirement ambiguity analysis.
• Basic understanding of Automation Testing (Selenium/Playwright).
• Basic knowledge of Jenkins and CI/CD concepts.
• Strong analytical, logical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Good to Have

• Experience testing E-commerce applications.
• Basic API testing knowledge using Postman.
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve QA productivity.
• Exposure to automation execution and CI/CD workflows.