QA Automation- Manual Tester

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in manual and automation testing. 
• Strong experience in test plan development, test case design, execution, and defect management. 
• Hands-on experience validating backend data using SQL. 
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies. 
• Experience with negative testing, regression testing, and boundary condition analysis. 
• Domain and Functional Expertise: 
  • Strong insurance domain experience (mandatory). 
  • Solid understanding of end-to-end system integration testing across distributed platform 
  • Property & Casualty (P&C) experience preferred. 
  • Proven experience testing policy lifecycle workflows, billing cycles, endorsements, cancellations, and renewals. 
• Automation, CI/CD & Technical Skills: 
  • Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools, including: Selenium or Playwright, TestNG or JUnit, JMeter
  • Experience automating web applications and RESTful APIs. 
  • Strong familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, including integrating automated tests using tools such as Jenkins and Git. 
  • Working knowledge of RESTful web services, JSON, networking fundamentals, and best practices for application performance. 
  • Familiarity with cloud APIs, third-party API integrations, and automation strategies supporting those integrations. 
  • Fair knowledge of programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript. 

Tools & Technologies 

• Test Management: TestRail, Zephyr, or similar 
• Defect Tracking & Agile Tools: JIRA 
• CI/CD & Source Control: Jenkins, Git 
• API Testing: Postman, REST Assured
• Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL 
• Documentation & Collaboration: Confluence, SharePoint 

Key Responsibilities 

• Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements with a strong focus on insurance workflows, including quoting, underwriting, binding, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, billing, and servicing. 
• Design, document, and execute manual test cases, test scenarios, and test data for web and API-based applications. 
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using industry-standard automation frameworks and tools. 
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, sanity, system, integration, UAT, and negative testing, including boundary condition validation. 
• Validate end-to-end insurance transactions across multiple states, ensuring compliance with state-specific rules and configurations. 
• Execute API testing and validate data exchanges across internal systems and third-party integrations. 
• Conduct application performance and load testing, identifying bottlenecks and performance risks. 
• Log, track, retest, and validate defects using defect-tracking tools; collaborate closely with Development and Product  teams through resolution. 
• Support testing across multiple environments and releases, including pre-release and post-deployment validation. 
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality and faster feedback loops. 
• Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and release readiness activities. 
• Ensure adherence to QA standards, testing best practices, and defined SDLC processes.