Quality Engineer

QA Engineer / Senior QA Tester – Loan Servicing & Financial Services
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer / Senior QA Tester as an Offshore candidate who can work for our client in Sydney with strong hands-on experience in functional and manual testing, preferably within the Financial Services (FS) domain.
The ideal candidate will have experience testing Loan Management / Loan Servicing System (LMS) applications and a strong understanding of software testing concepts, test planning, test case preparation, execution, defect management, and status reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Analyse business and functional requirements and identify testing requirements.
Understand requirements and translate them into comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
Prepare, review, and execute functional test cases.
Perform end-to-end testing of enterprise applications.
Test Loan Management / Loan Servicing Systems (LMS) and related financial applications.
Identify, document, track, and retest defects through the defect lifecycle.
Perform system, integration, regression, smoke, sanity, and functional testing.
Validate application functionality against business requirements and acceptance criteria.
Prepare and maintain test data required for testing activities.
Execute test cases and provide accurate test execution and status reports.
Work closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve defects.
Participate in defect triage meetings and provide detailed information to support defect resolution.
Support UAT and production-readiness activities where required.
Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, testing standards, and documentation.
Mandatory Skills
6+ years of experience in Software Testing / QA.
7+ years preferred for Senior Tester positions.
Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
Strong knowledge of testing concepts and methodologies.
Ability to understand requirements and independently derive test scenarios and test cases.
Strong hands-on experience in test case preparation, execution, defect reporting, and status reporting.
Experience with test management tools such as Xray or Zephyr.
Strong experience in manual/functional testing.
Excellent defect identification, documentation, and tracking skills.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills – mandatory.
Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Work arrangement
Yes