Experienced Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual Testing)

About the role

Zain Iraq is seeking an IT Experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of web, mobile, and API‑based applications through comprehensive manual testing. You will collaborate closely with developers, product managers and other stakeholders to identify defects, validate requirements and enhance the overall user experience.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Create, review and execute detailed test cases and scenarios covering functional, regression, integration, smoke, sanity, exploratory and user‑acceptance testing.
• Identify, document, track and verify software defects using bug‑tracking tools.
• Conduct API testing with tools such as Postman or Swagger.
• Validate UI/UX consistency across different browsers, devices and platforms.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, stand‑ups, grooming and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with developers and product teams to ensure timely resolution of issues.
• Assist in test planning, estimation and release validation activities.
• Maintain testing documentation, reports and test evidence.
• Support production issue verification and post‑release testing.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2–3 years of experience in software quality assurance and manual testing.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC.
• Experience testing web and mobile applications.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Required skills

• Manual testing
• Functional, regression, integration, smoke, sanity, exploratory and UAT testing
• API testing (Postman, Swagger)
• UI/UX testing across browsers and devices
• Test case design and execution
• Bug tracking tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
• SQL basics for database validation
• Mobile testing tools and emulator environments