Sr. Functional Test Engineer

About the Role

**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 behaviors * 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.