Functional Tester Job Description
Functional tester
provides an informed view into Test Estimation activity, underpinned by knowledge of the application, domain and testing experience.
Functional Tester Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective functional tester job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included functional tester job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Reviews business requirements and use cases
Writing and execution of tests for our WorldLine Pay Front Office solution
Execute test scenarios and document the results (incl
Working with test tools and test methods that adequately validate the system
Providing leadership and general oversight for the junior testers on a day to day basis
Identifying risk areas associated with the project and testing objectives
Supporting Proposals and responses to RFPs
Define and implement a test framework
Supervise creation, modification and execution of test cases
Provide estimations
Functional Tester Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Functional Tester
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISTQB, NWR, SQL, AWS, CMST, CSTE, STQB
Education for Functional Tester
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the functional tester job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Education, Computer Science, Technical, Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Electronics
Skills for Functional Tester
Desired skills for functional tester include:
Payments
Derivatives
Foreign Exchange
Loan syndication and Corporate term deposit
Money Market
Securities
PeopleSoft versions 9.1/9.2
Complete QA cycle and experience with different types of testing
BFSI domain
Maintenance and execution
Desired experience for functional tester includes:
4 - 8 years of experience, with good exposure to Functional & System verification
Telecom Domain background, esp
Implement and document testing strategies and practices on SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), Gateway (SAG) and WebPlatform (SWP)
Help developing a Quality Assurance roadmap for the SWIFT Network product team
Automate Testing of SWIFT systems from UNIX shell and GUI (SWIFT WebPlatform)
Plan and schedule Functional Test Phases comprising of Regression, Recovery and Security tests
Functional Tester Examples
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Functional Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a functional tester. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for functional tester
- Strong organizational skills including good time management, prioritizing tasks, estimating activities, and meeting deadlines
- Must be able to multi-task and work independently or in a team
- Testing the infrastructure components as opposed to application testing
- Making sure Operating systems are healthy and firewalls working correctly but also allowing
- Test Design creatiion, update
- Participate in analytical meetings in order to decompose business needs to functional requirements, estimate them and compose acceptance criteria
- Experience in Unix and any programming language is a plus
- Experience in Jira and Confluence applications is a big plus
- Review of test scripts written by your colleagues
- Manual test execution of scripts designed by you or your colleagues
Qualifications for functional tester
- Practical experience with UNIX Shell Scripting, SSH, JAVA
- Experience in monitoring system performance using tools such as DynaTrace, NMON and Wiley
- Experience working in a Non-Functional Test role with strong planning and organisational skills
- Good service delivery skills with the other teams in the department
- Be the evangelist of Functional Testing for the rest of the team
- Have formal qualifications such as a degree in Computer Science and ISEB / ISTQB Software Testing certification
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Functional Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a functional tester. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for functional tester
- Reviews relevant documentation
- Apply Testing Methodologies, create test plans, create test scripts, execute manual test scripts, document results, and execution of test scenarios in the Oracle Application
- Assist in the analysis of functional and technical requirements the creation and editing of test cases for new or modified systems
- Finding and analyzing software faults
- Participating in the software development process for mobile networks
- Maintaining and developing automated system for analyzing and reporting faults
- Optimizing existing Continuous Integration Systems
- Performing quality control of provided code
- Inspecting automated test
- Automating daily tasks and operations
Qualifications for functional tester
- Implement and document benchmarks on SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), Gateway (SAG) and WebPlatform (SWP)
- Help developing a capacity planning roadmap for the SWIFT Network product team
- Test SWIFT systems capacity from both backend and front ends by developing repeatable cases for the SWIFT infrastructure
- Increase and enhance SWIFT monitoring Testing Capacity
- Management of the capacity phase cycle of infrastructure upgrades in partnership with Operations&Technology Infrastructure Teams
- Represent the NFT go-to person of the SWIFT Network product team
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Functional Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a functional tester. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for functional tester
- Performing non-functional testing against back-end / service layer implementations within an agile software development environment utilising continuous delivery pipeline
- Comfortable with taking full ownership of the non-functional test process that includes ownership of the sign-off of each release
- Building and designing real world test scenarios that are integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline
- Able to take ownership of test environments to include the scheduling and deployment of production-ready software in every iteration
- Participate in testing, troubleshooting and analysis on the development of systems
- Provide support in the development, implementation and maintenance of test processes and diagnostic programs
- Hands on experience to plans and conducts all testing phases along with User and third-party testing for new and modified application components
- Tracks defects and confers with developers or functional resources to resolve them
- Triage and communicate across teams to coordinate and execute all test activities
- Define the test approach to accommodate contingencies without compromising the quality of code delivered to the Client
Qualifications for functional tester
- Work closely with the NF Tester(s) to provide infrastructure sign off
- Be the evangelist of NFT for the rest of the team
- Familiar with performance testing / Volume testing
- Good Knowledge of Product Development Life Cycle and Software Test Life Cycle
- Candidate’s presence in the team must boost the positive environment in the team
- Should be able to think differently and come with out of the box solutions for day to day problems
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Functional Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of functional tester. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for functional tester
- Conduct HIGLAS test activities and coordinate with test teams to ensure timely, orderly test execution
- Execute and monitor testing to ensure established processes are followed
- Attend status meetings, entry and exit review meetings
- Obtains CMS sign-off on test scripts and test activities, as required
- Static Test reviews (of Business Requirement, Functional Specification documents)
- Requirements for test data
- Website testing and general application testing
- Developing tests and test scripts, and documenting expected results
- Mapping tests to system/software requirements
- Conducting multiple cycles of regression testing during User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications for functional tester
- Represent the QA go-to person of the SWIFT Network product team
- Hands on Experience in Functional and Non Functional Testing of Java/J2EE based applications
- Experience of developing or working on Automation Framework system/Application
- Knowledge of REST/Web services/APIs
- Take on additional responsibilities with positive attitude
- A knowledge of Java, SQL And Linux platform
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Functional Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a functional tester. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for functional tester
- Conducting Business Verification Testing during release cutover activities
- Categorizing defects found during testing and communicating the scenario in which the defect was discovered
- Documenting the results of testing, providing test reports, and presenting the results
- Some out of hours working to support production go live events
- Design and code functional tests
- Participate in test case reviews and obtain clarification where necessary
- Review and revise QC test process through ongoing research &/or training on best practices
Qualifications for functional tester
- Some knowledge of writing SQL
- Create test cases and test data as per requirements
- Analyze test cases thoroughly to ensure adequate coverage of requirements
- Execute test cases, analyze test results and accordingly log defects, track and re-test defects
- Experience in writing SQL queries for backend validation
- Knowledge of Hyperion (HFM) function preferred