SOFTWARE QUALITY ANALYST

Key Responsibilities • Review requirements in Confluence and user stories in Jira to identify test scenarios and clarify acceptance criteria. • Analyze existing applications to understand their functionality, business rules, and user workflows, and derive test scenarios where documentation is incomplete or unavailable. • Create, maintain, and execute test cases in Qase, recording results and supporting evidence. • Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, and exploratory testing for web and mobile applications. • Develop and maintain automated tests using Appium with Python for mobile applications and Selenium or Playwright with Python for web applications. • Test REST APIs using Postman or equivalent tools, validating requests, responses, status codes, authentication, authorization, and error handling. • Investigate issues using browser developer tools, network traces, application logs, and SQL queries to help isolate frontend, backend, or data-related defects. • Validate authentication workflows, session management, account lockout, API rate limiting, and role-based access permissions. • Compare application screens against Figma designs and report visual, responsive layout, and interaction issues. • Perform cross-browser and mobile device compatibility testing using BrowserStack. • Log and track defects in Jira, providing clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, and supporting evidence. • Verify defect fixes and perform regression testing to identify unintended impacts. • Run and monitor automated tests through Jenkins, investigate failures, and communicate results. • Use Git and GitHub CLI to support version control and repository workflows for test automation. • Participate in defect triage, and release validation, communicating test coverage, unresolved defects, and release risks. Required Skills &Qualifications • 2–3 years of hands-on QA experience covering manual testing, automation, and API testing. • Practical experience with Appium for mobile automation and working knowledge of Selenium or Playwright for web automation. • Proficiency in Python for writing, maintaining, and debugging automated test scripts. • Good understanding of REST APIs, HTTP methods, JSON, headers, cookies, and token-based authentication. • Hands-on experience using Postman or equivalent API testing tools. • Ability to design positive, negative, boundary-value, and role-based test scenarios. • Ability to understand existing application workflows, identify requirement gaps, and seek clarification from relevant stakeholders. • Basic SQL knowledge for data validation and defect investigation. • Experience with test management, defect tracking, and documentation tools such as Qase, Jira, and Confluence, or equivalents. • Ability to interpret Figma designs and validate UI implementation. • Working knowledge of Git and an understanding of how automated tests run within CI/CD pipelines. • Understanding of Agile/Scrum, the software testing lifecycle, and defect management. • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear written and verbal communication. Good to Have • Familiarity with BrowserStack, Jenkins, and GitHub CLI. • Experience with pytest, reusable test fixtures, and test reporting. • Exposure to performance testing using JMeter or k6. • Basic knowledge of accessibility and application security testing. • Experience testing webhooks, notifications, payment integrations, or other third-party Hardware services.