Senior Application Tester — Quality & Automation Focus

Simera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Simera is seeking a detail-oriented Application Tester in San Francisco, CA to evaluate software applications and ensure they meet business requirements and provide a reliable user experience. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, executing tests, documenting defects, and collaborating with developers, product managers, and designers.

The role requires strong testing fundamentals, problem-solving abilities, and experience with bug tracking tools.

Qualifications

• Experience creating and executing manual test cases.
• Experience identifying, documenting, and tracking software defects.
• Familiarity with bug tracking and test management tools.
• Knowledge of functional, regression, integration, system, and exploratory testing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute manual and automated tests to validate application functionality and quality.
• Review requirements, user stories, and specifications to identify testing needs.
• Create and maintain test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and testing documentation.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, usability, and exploratory testing.
• Identify, reproduce, document, and track application defects.
• Provide clear reproduction steps, expected results, actual results, and supporting evidence for reported issues.
• Retest resolved defects and perform regression testing after application updates.
• Validate application functionality against business and technical requirements.
• Test application interfaces, workflows, integrations, and data flows.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to investigate and resolve issues.

Skills

Testing principles

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Test case design

Defect documentation

Bug tracking tools

Functional testing

Regression testing

API knowledge

SQL basics

Tools

Jira

TestRail

Azure DevOps

Postman

Job description

Simera is seeking a detail-oriented Application Tester in San Francisco, CA to evaluate software applications and ensure they meet business requirements and provide a reliable user experience. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, executing tests, documenting defects, and collaborating with developers, product managers, and designers.

The role requires strong testing fundamentals, problem-solving abilities, and experience with bug tracking tools.