Test Engineer | 3-4 Years Experience

Utthunga Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Utthunga Technologies is seeking a motivated Test Engineer with 3-4 years of experience in manual and automated testing to ensure software quality. The role emphasizes STLC/SDLC understanding, test design, defect management, and API testing, with exposure to automation frameworks and CI/CD tools.

You will collaborate with developers and analysts in an Agile environment to deliver robust software. The candidate should be proficient in Java, Python, and JavaScript, and have hands-on experience

Qualifications

• Analyze business and functional requirements.
• Create detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Review requirements to identify ambiguities and testability issues.
• Estimate testing effort and support sprint planning activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and functional requirements.
• Create detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Review requirements to identify ambiguities and testability issues.
• Estimate testing effort and support sprint planning activities.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, and smoke testing.
• Validate application functionality against business requirements.
• Perform exploratory testing to identify hidden defects.
• Ensure complete test coverage for assigned modules.
• Log, track, and verify defects using defect management tools.
• Participate in defect triage meetings.
• Retest resolved issues and perform impact analysis.
• Ensure closure of defects before release.
• Develop and maintain automation test scripts.
• Execute automated regression suites.
• Analyze automation results and report failures.
• Continuously improve automation coverage and framework stability.
• Validate REST/SOAP APIs using testing tools.
• Verify backend data through SQL queries.
• Perform data integrity and data validation testing.
• Work closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Test Leads.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide regular status updates on testing progress and risks.
• Ensure adherence to QA processes and standards.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives.
• Prepare test execution reports and testing metrics.

Skills

STLC

Test Case Design

Defect Management

API Testing

Automation Frameworks

Regression Testing

UAT Testing

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

Cypress

JIRA

Azure DevOps

TestRail

Zephyr

Git

GitHub

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Job description

We are looking for a highly motivated Test Engineer with 3-4 years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing. The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), test case design, defect management, API testing, and automation frameworks.

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring software quality by executing test plans, identifying defects, and collaborating with development teams to deliver robust and reliable products.

Strong understanding of:

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Defect Life Cycle
• Test Case Design Techniques
• Regression, Smoke, Functional, Integration, and UAT Testing

Experience with one or more of:

• Selenium WebDriver
• Playwright
• Cypress

Programming/Scripting:

• Java
• Python
• JavaScript

Test Management Tools:

• JIRA
• Azure DevOps
• TestRail
• Zephyr

Version Control:

• Git
• GitHub
• Bitbucket

CI/CD (Preferred):

• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• GitHub Actions

Roles and Responsibilities

Test Planning & Design

• Analyze business and functional requirements.
• Create detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Review requirements to identify ambiguities and testability issues.
• Estimate testing effort and support sprint planning activities.

Test Execution

• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, and smoke testing.
• Validate application functionality against business requirements.
• Perform exploratory testing to identify hidden defects.
• Ensure complete test coverage for assigned modules.

Defect Management

• Log, track, and verify defects using defect management tools.
• Participate in defect triage meetings.
• Retest resolved issues and perform impact analysis.
• Ensure closure of defects before release.

Automation Testing

• Develop and maintain automation test scripts.
• Execute automated regression suites.
• Analyze automation results and report failures.
• Continuously improve automation coverage and framework stability.

API & Database Testing

• Validate REST/SOAP APIs using testing tools.
• Verify backend data through SQL queries.
• Perform data integrity and data validation testing.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Test Leads.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide regular status updates on testing progress and risks.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure adherence to QA processes and standards.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives.
• Prepare test execution reports and testing metrics.