Functional tester job description
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Functional tester requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in functional tester job postings.
Sample functional tester requirements
- Proficient in test case creation and execution
- Experience with testing tools such as Selenium, JMeter, or similar
- Knowledge of testing methodologies such as black box, gray box, and white box testing
- Experience in identifying, documenting, and tracking defects
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Sample required functional tester soft skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing project requirements
- Passion for quality and continuous improvement
Functional tester job description example 1
InfosysPublicService functional tester job description
Infosys is seeking an Functional/API Test Analyst,
As a QA Test Analyst, you will act as a validation and quality assurance expert and review the functionality of existing systems. You will conduct requirement analysis, define test strategy & design and lead execution to guarantee superior outcomes. You will also be required to design an optimal test environment to simulate real-time scenarios. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create innovative high quality and defect-free solutions to meet our clients' business needs. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
* 2 years of Information Technology experience
* U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
* Candidate must be located within commuting distance of Charlotte, NC or be willing to relocate to the area. This position may require travel in the US and Canada
* 2 years of experience in Automation Testing
* Experience with Testing strategies and Test Execution
* Knowledge and experience with full SDLC lifecycle
* Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
* 2years of hands on experience in Functional Testing in Banking domain
* Hands on experience in working on Agile project execution
* Working Experience in Test management tools such as JIRA and ALM
* Ability to participate in Agile ceremonies, Requirement Analysis, Test scenario/ Test case Preparation, Test case execution and Defect Management.
* Working Experience in SQL and BDD Framework would be a big plus.
* Having an understanding on any automation tool preferred.
* Strong communication, presentation and problem-solving skills, as well as excellent interpersonal, management/business skills.
The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.
About Us
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
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As a QA Test Analyst, you will act as a validation and quality assurance expert and review the functionality of existing systems. You will conduct requirement analysis, define test strategy & design and lead execution to guarantee superior outcomes. You will also be required to design an optimal test environment to simulate real-time scenarios. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create innovative high quality and defect-free solutions to meet our clients' business needs. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
* 2 years of Information Technology experience
* U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
* Candidate must be located within commuting distance of Charlotte, NC or be willing to relocate to the area. This position may require travel in the US and Canada
* 2 years of experience in Automation Testing
* Experience with Testing strategies and Test Execution
* Knowledge and experience with full SDLC lifecycle
* Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
* 2years of hands on experience in Functional Testing in Banking domain
* Hands on experience in working on Agile project execution
* Working Experience in Test management tools such as JIRA and ALM
* Ability to participate in Agile ceremonies, Requirement Analysis, Test scenario/ Test case Preparation, Test case execution and Defect Management.
* Working Experience in SQL and BDD Framework would be a big plus.
* Having an understanding on any automation tool preferred.
* Strong communication, presentation and problem-solving skills, as well as excellent interpersonal, management/business skills.
The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.
About Us
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
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Functional tester job description example 2
Workday functional tester job description
Do what you love. Love what you do.
At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
About the Team
Within the Workday Test Centre of Excellence we are driven by a passion for our products and the success of our customers in implementing our best in class cloud solutions. We're a diverse group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region.
About the Role
Our team promotes Workday's core values with ‘Employees' being the first of them. This is why we:
offer flexible work schedules;empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goalsencourage work-life balance and wellbeing;are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone.
We are looking for someone to join our team who is eager to learn with a creative mindset, support their colleagues and have fun.
Workday's Test Consultants are key members of the Engagement team, who advise and guide customers through not only the development of a testing strategy & plan but also conducts testing, while collaborating with all project team members such as: Workday Implementation Consultants, the Customer Project Management Office, Customer Testing teams and Customer Subject Matter Experts.
What you will achieve in your first 12 - 24 months
You'll get the opportunity to learn and achieve many things as a Test Consultant at Workday.
Here are some of the activities you will experience on your Workday career journey:
● Month 1 - you'll complete the Workday Core HCM & Practical Certification training, and within your first 6 months, you'll undertake further specialist certification training such as the Engagement Management Certification
● Once Certified, you'll supplement your initial product learnings through active project engagements, working alongside other members of the TCoE
● You will work closely with other Consulting Teams on projects, including Engagement Managers, Functional Consultants and Customer Test Consultants to ensure seamless collaboration between the various touchpoints of the application
● Gain a practical understanding of Workday's implementation methodology and core concepts while focusing on:
Development of test strategies and plans Workshops with customers assisting on test scenario creation Testing administration, status updates, and overall incident reporting.Working with the customer to ensure that Test Events are planned Ensuring that all test scenarios are executed and results are documented in each cycle: unit testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, parallel testing, regression testing and performance testing.Documenting/reporting testing results, ensuring entry and exit criteria are met for each test cycle Ensure entry and exit criteria are met for each test cycle.
● Within your 1st year you can expect to have worked on 3-4 projects where you have been acting as a Test Lead for a smaller, ME deployment, or working alongside another Test Lead on a larger project.
● In your 2nd year, you'll continue to build on the knowledge that you've learnt, through additional training offerings and multiple/concurrent project experiences.
About You
Basic Qualifications
Fluency in German and English is essential Prior Consulting experience (at least 1 year), either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software CompanyRelevant Educational qualifications and/or 1-2+ years experience working with, supporting or Implementing a Tier 1 Financials business software application such as: Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, NetSuite, FinancialForce or similar applications Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (under typical circumstances)
Other Qualifications
Knowledge of testing and test methodologies for ERP technologies - working knowledge of test strategies and plans, test plan execution, and testing management Strong creative problem-solving skills, analytical and reporting skills Strong presenter with excellent verbal and written Communication skills Ability and desire to learn technology quickly through a mix of different mediums Resourceful and adaptable; you'll be comfortable working remotely, utilising a variety of tools with a high degree of autonomy
#LI-NE2
Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
About the Team
Within the Workday Test Centre of Excellence we are driven by a passion for our products and the success of our customers in implementing our best in class cloud solutions. We're a diverse group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region.
About the Role
Our team promotes Workday's core values with ‘Employees' being the first of them. This is why we:
offer flexible work schedules;empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goalsencourage work-life balance and wellbeing;are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone.
We are looking for someone to join our team who is eager to learn with a creative mindset, support their colleagues and have fun.
Workday's Test Consultants are key members of the Engagement team, who advise and guide customers through not only the development of a testing strategy & plan but also conducts testing, while collaborating with all project team members such as: Workday Implementation Consultants, the Customer Project Management Office, Customer Testing teams and Customer Subject Matter Experts.
What you will achieve in your first 12 - 24 months
You'll get the opportunity to learn and achieve many things as a Test Consultant at Workday.
Here are some of the activities you will experience on your Workday career journey:
● Month 1 - you'll complete the Workday Core HCM & Practical Certification training, and within your first 6 months, you'll undertake further specialist certification training such as the Engagement Management Certification
● Once Certified, you'll supplement your initial product learnings through active project engagements, working alongside other members of the TCoE
● You will work closely with other Consulting Teams on projects, including Engagement Managers, Functional Consultants and Customer Test Consultants to ensure seamless collaboration between the various touchpoints of the application
● Gain a practical understanding of Workday's implementation methodology and core concepts while focusing on:
Development of test strategies and plans Workshops with customers assisting on test scenario creation Testing administration, status updates, and overall incident reporting.Working with the customer to ensure that Test Events are planned Ensuring that all test scenarios are executed and results are documented in each cycle: unit testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, parallel testing, regression testing and performance testing.Documenting/reporting testing results, ensuring entry and exit criteria are met for each test cycle Ensure entry and exit criteria are met for each test cycle.
● Within your 1st year you can expect to have worked on 3-4 projects where you have been acting as a Test Lead for a smaller, ME deployment, or working alongside another Test Lead on a larger project.
● In your 2nd year, you'll continue to build on the knowledge that you've learnt, through additional training offerings and multiple/concurrent project experiences.
About You
Basic Qualifications
Fluency in German and English is essential Prior Consulting experience (at least 1 year), either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software CompanyRelevant Educational qualifications and/or 1-2+ years experience working with, supporting or Implementing a Tier 1 Financials business software application such as: Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, NetSuite, FinancialForce or similar applications Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (under typical circumstances)
Other Qualifications
Knowledge of testing and test methodologies for ERP technologies - working knowledge of test strategies and plans, test plan execution, and testing management Strong creative problem-solving skills, analytical and reporting skills Strong presenter with excellent verbal and written Communication skills Ability and desire to learn technology quickly through a mix of different mediums Resourceful and adaptable; you'll be comfortable working remotely, utilising a variety of tools with a high degree of autonomy
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Functional tester job description example 3
Trigyn Technologies functional tester job description
Immediate contract opportunity for Peoplesoft Functional / Integration Tester with direct client in New York, NY.
Trigyn's direct client is looking for Peoplesoft Functional / Integration Tester for contract assignment in New York, NY.
Description:
The client is looking for a Peoplesoft Functional / Integration Tester to support ongoing production maintenance and system enhancements of the HR, Benefits and Payroll functions. Under the direction of the Manager, the Peoplesoft Functional/ Integration Tester shall have the primary responsibility of ensuring the quality of the software and any associated custom development to meet the client's functional and technical requirements and enable department to operate and maintain the software application in a cost-effective manner after the implementation. This person should have working knowledge of the following modules PeopleSoft HR, NA Payroll (Garnishments) and Global Payroll / Absence Management.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain formal test cases for specific releases based on the business requirements and technical specifications;
• Execute test scripts/cases for releases or on-going maintenance and record test results in ALM / Quality Center (QC);
• Report defects in ALM / Quality Center (QC), provide development team with necessary defect documentation, re-test fixes and record results;
• Perform data mining to ensure proper test population coverage for test cases;
• Assume responsibility for timely test cases completion to achieve targeted system cycles dates;
• Timely reporting of all critical milestones and slipping deadlines to the Testing Lead;
• Work on multiple projects and ability to shift the effort based on the timelines established;
• Conducting peer reviews prior to test execution (i.e., proper test cases coverage, test cases documented appropriately);
• Working with developers and system analysts on resolving any open questions while working on test cases preparation;
• Working with automation team on debugging automation scripts.
Qualifications:
• Extensive PeopleSoft 8.x/9.x (v. 9.2 is plus) Functional testing experience in PeopleSoft HR, NA Payroll (Garnishments) and Global Payroll/ Absence Management.
• Extensive knowledge of different types of Garnishments like Creditor, Federal Debt. NY State Tax Levy, Student Loan, Bankruptcy, IRS Tax Levy, and Child Support.
• Extensive knowledge of different payroll components like Federal/State/Local taxes, Social Security and Medicare Taxes, earnings, deductions and additional pay.
• Experience with PeopleCode, SQR, SQL, App Designer, Toad.
• Extensive experience in Manual Functional Testing such as creating test plan, building and executing manual test scripts.
• Experience using ALM / Quality Center (QC) for creating, executing test cases and tracking defects.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM Database model.
• Proficiency running back-end/database queries for data set-up and verification (DB2 and Oracle)
• Experience in developing and maintaining automated HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) scripts using Keyword Driven Framework and Descriptive programming is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with PeopleSoft Implementations in a government or civil service environment.
• Experience working with an enterprise wide, large-scale implementation.
• Excellent Communications skills (Oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required
Education:
• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required.
TRIGYN IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
About Trigyn: Trigyn is an IT Services Company that has been in business for 30 years with more than 1,500 resources deployed today. Trigyn is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 (ISMS) and CMMI Level 5 Certified. Trigyn is an E-Verify Employer.
Trigyn's direct client is looking for Peoplesoft Functional / Integration Tester for contract assignment in New York, NY.
Description:
The client is looking for a Peoplesoft Functional / Integration Tester to support ongoing production maintenance and system enhancements of the HR, Benefits and Payroll functions. Under the direction of the Manager, the Peoplesoft Functional/ Integration Tester shall have the primary responsibility of ensuring the quality of the software and any associated custom development to meet the client's functional and technical requirements and enable department to operate and maintain the software application in a cost-effective manner after the implementation. This person should have working knowledge of the following modules PeopleSoft HR, NA Payroll (Garnishments) and Global Payroll / Absence Management.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain formal test cases for specific releases based on the business requirements and technical specifications;
• Execute test scripts/cases for releases or on-going maintenance and record test results in ALM / Quality Center (QC);
• Report defects in ALM / Quality Center (QC), provide development team with necessary defect documentation, re-test fixes and record results;
• Perform data mining to ensure proper test population coverage for test cases;
• Assume responsibility for timely test cases completion to achieve targeted system cycles dates;
• Timely reporting of all critical milestones and slipping deadlines to the Testing Lead;
• Work on multiple projects and ability to shift the effort based on the timelines established;
• Conducting peer reviews prior to test execution (i.e., proper test cases coverage, test cases documented appropriately);
• Working with developers and system analysts on resolving any open questions while working on test cases preparation;
• Working with automation team on debugging automation scripts.
Qualifications:
• Extensive PeopleSoft 8.x/9.x (v. 9.2 is plus) Functional testing experience in PeopleSoft HR, NA Payroll (Garnishments) and Global Payroll/ Absence Management.
• Extensive knowledge of different types of Garnishments like Creditor, Federal Debt. NY State Tax Levy, Student Loan, Bankruptcy, IRS Tax Levy, and Child Support.
• Extensive knowledge of different payroll components like Federal/State/Local taxes, Social Security and Medicare Taxes, earnings, deductions and additional pay.
• Experience with PeopleCode, SQR, SQL, App Designer, Toad.
• Extensive experience in Manual Functional Testing such as creating test plan, building and executing manual test scripts.
• Experience using ALM / Quality Center (QC) for creating, executing test cases and tracking defects.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM Database model.
• Proficiency running back-end/database queries for data set-up and verification (DB2 and Oracle)
• Experience in developing and maintaining automated HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) scripts using Keyword Driven Framework and Descriptive programming is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with PeopleSoft Implementations in a government or civil service environment.
• Experience working with an enterprise wide, large-scale implementation.
• Excellent Communications skills (Oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required
Education:
• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required.
TRIGYN IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
About Trigyn: Trigyn is an IT Services Company that has been in business for 30 years with more than 1,500 resources deployed today. Trigyn is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 (ISMS) and CMMI Level 5 Certified. Trigyn is an E-Verify Employer.
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Updated March 14, 2024
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