Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual)

BigCity Promotions; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

BigCity Promotions is seeking a QA Engineer with 3–4 years of hands-on testing experience to own end-to-end QA activities. You will take requirements from concept to test coverage, automate regression suites, and sign off releases in an agile setting.

The role focuses on functional and exploratory testing, collaborating with developers, product owners, and the release team to ensure quality across web, mobile, and API interfaces.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of professional software testing experience.
• Solid grasp of QA fundamentals and SDLC/STLC.
• Proven ability to test Mobile, Web and REST APIs with strong test design.
• Ability to write and debug SQL queries against databases.
• Clear written and verbal communication; articulate scenarios beyond failures.
• Attention to detail; be the last line of defence before release.
• Exposure to security testing basics (OWASP Top 10).
• Working knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases; diagnose issues via logs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end QA testing from requirement understanding to release sign-off.
• Design and execute test coverage, perform exploratory and risk-based testing.
• Manage defects and drive closure with developers; own regression sign-off.
• Maintain test data and environments to ensure repeatable testing across programs.
• Collaborate with product and development; participate in sprints and retrospectives.
• Report on test coverage, progress, and defect trends; suggest process improvements.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate test case generation and regression analysis.

Skills

QA fundamentals

SDLC/STLC

Agile/Scrum

Test design

REST API testing

Mobile & Web testing

Exploratory testing

Defect management

Test automation

Security basics (OWASP Top 10)

SQL queries

Logs & diagnostics (ELK/Grafana/Kibana

Education

ISTQB certification

Tools

ELK Stack

Grafana

Kibana

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

We are looking for a QA Engineer with 3-4 years of hands-on testing experience who can own end to end QA testing. From understanding the requirement, to designing test coverage, to automating the regression suite, to signing off the release.

This is a hands-on role for someone who is strong in functional and exploratory testing. You will work closely with developers, product owners and the release team in an agile, fast-moving environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Test Design & Execution

• Analyse requirements, user stories and API contracts; identify gaps, edge cases and ambiguities before development begins.
• Write clear, traceable test scenarios and test cases covering functional, integration, negative, boundary and data-validation paths.
• Perform exploratory and risk-based testing to surface defects that scripted cases miss.
• Validate business rules and calculations - points accrual, eligibility, caps, redemptions, reconciliation with precision.

Defect Management & Release Quality

• Log well-documented defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, logs and severity; drive them to closure with developers.
• Own regression sign-off for assigned modules and communicate release readiness with a clear view of residual risk.
• Verify fixes, run post-deployment validation on staging and production, and support UAT with business stakeholders.
• Maintain test data sets, test environments and documentation so testing is repeatable across programs and tenants.
• Work closely with product and development team, participate actively in sprints grooming, planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Report on test coverage, execution progress, defect trends.
• Suggest and implement improvements to test processes, coverage strategy and tooling.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly to accelerate test case generation, test data creation and regression analysis.

Test Automation

• Exposure to test automation - build, extend and maintain automated test suites for UI, API and data-validation layers.
• Convert high-value manual regression cases into reliable, maintainable automated tests.
• Support API and backend testing, including request/response validation, authentication flows, error handling and database-level assertions.

Required Skills:

• 3-4 years of professional experience in software testing
• Strong grasp of QA fundamentals: SDLC/STLC, test design techniques, defect life cycle, agile/Scrum delivery.
• Proven ability to test Mobile Application, web and REST APIs
• Comfortable writing and debugging queries against a relational or document database to validate data.
• Clear written and verbal communication. Able to articulate scenarios, not just report failures.
• Attention to detail, and the discipline to be the last line of defence before a release reaches customers.
• Exposure to security testing basics (OWASP Top 10)
• Working knowledge on SQL (Postgres/MySQL) & MongoDB queries
• Diagnose the issue - make sense out of Application Logs and dashboard [ELK, Grafana, Kibana etc]
• Good to have: ISTQB certification or equivalent.