Sr Functional Test Engineer

Accenture; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song in Kochi is seeking a Senior Functional Test Engineer to join our Agile QA team. The role focuses on manual testing, defect management, and close collaboration with developers, POs, and BAs to ensure high-quality releases.

The candidate should have 3-5 years of testing experience, strong knowledge of testing methodologies, and familiarity with API testing using Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI definitions.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in software testing.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Hands-on in manual testing, defect management, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of requirement analysis and clarification with stakeholders.
• Develop sprint-wise test plans with defined scope and timelines.
• Design and document test cases using TestRail, Xray, TestLink, or similar tools.
• Perform integration, functional, regression, and smoke testing across platforms.
• Perform API testing using Postman and validate Swagger/OpenAPI definitions.
• Identify, document, and track defects using JIRA.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and ensure test coverage from stories.

Skills

Agile Sprint Testing

API Testing

Education

Graduation

Tools

TestRail

Xray

TestLink

Zephyr

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Postman

Swagger/OpenAPI

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title - Senior Functional Test Engineer - Sr. Analyst -ACS Song

Management Level: Level- 10-Sr. Analyst

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Agile Sprint Testing

Good to have skills: API Testing

Experience: 3-5 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

At Accenture Song, delivering top-notch solutions means ensuring development outcomes align with expectations. We are looking for a detail-oriented Senior Manual Tester to ensure the quality and reliability of our applications. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in manual testing, defect management, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment

Roles & Responsibilities

• Take ownership of requirement analysis by thoroughly understanding, reviewing, and clarifying business and technical requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop sprint-wise test plans by identifying scope, timelines, and testing activities based on prioritized requirements and sprint goals.
• Design and document high-quality test cases using test management tools such as TestRail, Xray, TestLink, or similar, ensuring complete coverage of acceptance criteria
• Perform integration, functional, regression, smoke, or sanity testing across different platforms
• Understand the backend testing and knowledge in API functional testing in Postman tool.
• Perform API testing using Postman, validate request/response structures, and interpret Swagger/OpenAPI definitions to ensure proper implementation and coverage of expected behaviours
• Identify, document, and track defects using tools like JIRA.
• Work closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to clarify requirements.
• Participate in Agile sprint planning, stand‑up meetings, and retrospectives.
• Ensure test coverage by analyzing business requirements and user stories.
• Participate in release and deployment activities, including creating release notes and verifying successful deployments.
• Validate bug fixes and perform retesting as needed.
• Provide detailed test reports and contribute to test documentation.
• Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and assist stakeholders with test execution.
• Collaborate with developers and product owners to understand requirements and identify potential issues.
• Perform various levels of testing, including UI, functional, regression, and smoke testing.
• Report, track, and verify software defects to ensure timely resolution.
• Participate in release and deployment activities, including creating release notes and verifying successful deployments.
• Continuously improve the quality assurance process, including identifying automation and process improvement areas.

Professional & Technical Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in manual software testing.
• Experience in test methodologies like - Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, SDLC/STLCS
• Experience with different types of testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, UAT, API Testing
• Experience in Agile sprint process (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in Test Management Tools: TestRail, Xray, TestLink, Zephyr or similar tool
• Experience in Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Good to have knowledge/experience in the E‑commerce domain.
• Automation Tools (basic understanding or collaboration with automation team): Cypress, Selenium
• API Testing Tools: Postman, Swagger
• Excellent communication skills to interact with developers, POs, and BA's
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams including developers, BAs, and POs to ensure quality deliverables
• Good documentation and reporting skills
• Basic knowledge of version Control: Git, Bitbucket
• API Testing (Preferred)
• Log Monitoring & Analysis: Grafana, Kibana
• Strong capability to work independently as well as part of a team, providing mentorship and guidance to junior testers.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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