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Job Role: Graduate Engineer Trainee – QA

Qualification: Bachelors / Masters Degree

Experience: 0-1 years 

Batch: 2025 / 2024 / 2023 / 2022

Salary: up to ₹3-6 LPA

Job Location: Gurgaon

Last Date: ASAP

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Job Summary:

We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented QA Analyst to join our Quality Assurance team. Reporting to the QA Manager, the ideal candidate will work closely with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases within Agile sprints. The QA Analyst should have a solid understanding of manual and automated testing practices, familiarity with CI/CD processes, and a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, write, and execute test cases and test scenarios based on user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform manual testing of web applications, APIs, and back-end systems, ensuring full coverage.
• Collaborate with automation engineers and contribute to automation test case design and execution (if skilled).
• Log, track, and verify bugs through defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
• Validate fixes and conduct regression testing to ensure stability across releases.
• Communicate test results, issues, and risks to the QA Manager and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure test documentation is up to date and maintained in tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray.
• Work closely with the QA Manager to continuously improve QA processes, tools, and standards.
• Support performance testing and test data management activities when required.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing types, and Agile principles.
• Proficiency in manual testing with working knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium or Functionize.
• Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI.
• Experience in defect tracking and test management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, TestRail).
• Basic understanding of CI/CD environments and source control (e.g., Jenkins, Git).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative Agile team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner.
• Familiarity with database testing using SQL.
• Experience with BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber) is a plus.
• ISTQB or other relevant certification preferred.

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.