Functional Quality Assurance Engineer

QA for SYF

We are seeking a skilled Functional QA Engineer with 5 years of hands-on experience in software testing, requirement analysis, and ensuring high-quality product delivery. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills, deep understanding of SDLC/STLC, and expertise in validating business requirements, test execution, and defect management.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and convert them into detailed test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform end-to-end functional, integration, regression, and system testing.
• Participate in requirement walkthroughs and design discussions with product owners and development teams.
• Execute manual test cases, log defects, track them through resolution, and perform re-testing.
• Validate data, workflows, and UI behavior across various modules.
• Prepare test reports, provide execution summaries, and communicate QA status to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (BA, Dev, UAT, Support) to ensure timely delivery of quality releases.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by preparing UAT test cases and assisting business users.
• Identify test gaps, propose improvements, and contribute to process optimization.
• Ensure adherence to QA standards and best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Strong experience in functional/manual testing (5+ years).
• Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, defect life cycle, and QA methodologies.
• Experience in writing clear and comprehensive test cases, test plans, and test documentation.
• Proficiency in tracking/testing tools such as JIRA, ALM, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Good knowledge of SQL for data validation and backend testing.
• Exposure to API testing using Postman or similar tools (preferred).
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Basic understanding of automation testing concepts (Selenium, TestNG, etc.).
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Knowledge of domain-specific workflows (finance, retail, insurance, BFSI, etc.).
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS / Azure).

Soft Skills

• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Proactive attitude and willingness to learn and adapt.
• Effective stakeholder communication and coordination.

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Experience Level

Mid Level