QA Tester

V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

V-Soft Consulting is hiring a QA Tester in St. Louis, Missouri to join our premier client project. The role requires hands-on manual testing across functional, integration, and end-to-end scenarios, aligned to user stories and acceptance criteria. You will design and execute test cases, manage defects, and ensure release readiness.

The candidate should excel in Agile environments, communicate clearly, and maintain test artifacts. V-Soft offers comprehensive benefits and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on manual software testing or QA experience preferred.
• Experience creating and executing manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience with functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Experience testing applications against business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting, tracking, retesting, and closing software defects.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum product delivery environment.
• Hands on experience with Zephyr Scale, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify unexpected system behavior and edge cases.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage testing priorities, and clearly communicate quality risks.

Responsibilities

• Review business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution designs to determine appropriate test coverage.
• Develop and execute detailed manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Validate business rules, application behavior, data flows, and customer journeys.
• Identify and prepare appropriate test data and test conditions.
• Maintain reusable manual regression test suites for assigned products.
• Clearly communicate testing progress, results, risks, and release-readiness concerns.
• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution.
• Create clear defect documentation with steps to reproduce and evidence.
• Collaborate with developers, BAs, and product owners to troubleshoot defects.
• Retest resolved defects and perform regression testing.
• Distinguish defects from requirements gaps, data/config issues.
• Manually validate complete customer and co-worker journeys across digital channels.
• Test interactions and data flows across multiple applications and integration points.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, and exception scenarios.
• Identify inconsistencies in functionality and customer experience.
• Ensure changes in one area do not negatively affect others.
• Work as an embedded member of an Agile product team.
• Participate in refinement, planning, demonstrations, and other team activities.
• Coordinate testing with development and release schedules.
• Support production release validation and post-deployment testing.

Skills

Manual testing

Requirements analysis

Business analysis

Stakeholder comms

Test scripting

Tools

Zephyr Scale

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Primary Location: St Louis, Missouri

V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a QA Tester for our premier client in St Louis, Missouri.

Education And Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on manual software testing or QA experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience creating and executing manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience with functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Experience testing applications against business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting, tracking, retesting, and closing software defects.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum product delivery environment.
• Hands on experience with Zephyr Scale, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify unexpected system behavior and edge cases.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage testing priorities, and clearly communicate quality risks.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Must-have skills

• Previous testing experience
• Requirements analysis
• Business process analysis
• Stakeholder communications

Nice-to-have skills

• Knowledge of Zephyr, Confluence, and Jira
• Experience writing test scripts

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Job Responsibilities

Manual Test Planning & Execution

• Review business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution designs to determine appropriate test coverage.
• Develop and execute detailed manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Validate business rules, application behavior, data flows, and customer journeys.
• Identify and prepare appropriate test data and test conditions.
• Maintain reusable manual regression test suites for assigned products.
• Clearly communicate testing progress, results, risks, and release-readiness concerns.

Defect Management

• Identify, document, and track application defects through resolution.
• Create clear defect documentation, including steps to reproduce, expected versus actual results, and supporting evidence.
• Partner with developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and vendors to reproduce and troubleshoot defects.
• Retest resolved defects and perform appropriate regression testing.
• Distinguish application defects from requirements gaps, data issues, configuration issues, and expected system behavior.

End-to-End Digital Testing

• Manually validate complete customer and co-worker journeys across applicable digital channels.
• Test interactions and data flows across multiple applications and system integration points.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, and exception scenarios rather than testing only the expected "happy path."
• Identify inconsistencies in functionality, business rules, content, navigation, or customer experience.
• Validate that changes to one area of a digital experience do not negatively affect existing functionality.

Agile Product Delivery

• Work as an embedded member of an Agile product team.
• Participate in refinement, planning, demonstrations, and other applicable team activities.
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria early to identify gaps, ambiguity, or scenarios requiring additional clarification.
• Partner with Product Owners and Business Analysts to ensure requirements are clear and testable.
• Coordinate testing activities with development and release schedules.
• Support production release validation and post-deployment testing.

V-Soft Consulting Group is recognized among the top 100 fastest growing staffing companies in North America, V-Soft Consulting Group is headquartered in Louisville, KY with strategic locations in India, Canada and the U.S. V-Soft is known as an agile, innovative technology services company holding several awards and distinctions and has a wide variety of partnerships across diverse technology stacks.

• As a valued V-Soft Consultant, you’re eligible for full benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), a 401(k) plan, competitive compensation and more.

V-Soft is partnered with numerous Fortune 500 companies, exceptionally positioned to advance your career growth.

V-Soft Consulting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.