Associate Engineer – Manual Testing

Management Level: Level 12 – Associate

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Manual Testing

Good to have skills: Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Experience: 1 -2 years of experience in Testing

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

As a Functional Test Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring software quality through manual testing practices. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, execute test cases, and support the overall testing lifecycle. This role is ideal for junior candidates with a strong foundation in manual testing.

Roles and Responsibilities

• •Understand and analyze project requirements and acceptance criteria.
• •Design, write, and execute manual test cases for applications.
• •Perform Functional, UI, Regression, and Smoke testing.
• •Identify, log, track, and verify defects throughout the defect life cycle.
• •Prepare and manage test data required for test execution.
• •Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to clarify requirements and raise concerns.
• •Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• •Support release activities and maintain test documentation.
• •Contribute ideas to improve testing processes and efficiency.

Professional and Technical Skills

• •Around 1 year of hands-on experience in manual testing.
• •Familiarity with Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• •Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• •Strong understanding of requirement analysis, test case preparation, and execution.
• •Basic knowledge on API manual testing using Postman or similar tools.
• •Exposure to test management tools like Jira, Xray, or TestLink is a plus.
• •Basic understanding of cross-browser and cross-device testing.
• •Good to have knowledge/experience in the E-commerce domain.
• •Strong attention to detail with excellent problem-solving and logical thinking abilities.
• •Ability to communicate clearly and work well within a team environment.
• •Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and meet deadlines
• •Eagerness to learn and grow in the testing domain.

Additional Information

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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