What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manual QA Lead position at Robotics Technologies?
Job ID:
J51465
Job Title:
Manual QA Lead
Location:
Chicago, IL
Duration:
12 Months Extension
Hourly Rate:
Depending on Experience (DOE)
Work Authorization:
US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B,
H4-EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EADClient:
To Be Discussed Later
Employment Type:
W-2, 1099, C2C
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to design detailed test plans, test cases, and test data.
- Execute manual functional, UI, integration, and regression tests across web and/or mobile applications.
- Identify, document, and track bugs and defects using tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Perform exploratory testing to uncover usability and edge-case issues.
- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and QA review sessions within an Agile/Scrum team.
- Collaborate with developers and product owners to ensure issues are well understood and resolved promptly.
- Conduct smoke and sanity testing after deployments.
- Maintain clear and comprehensive test documentation.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for regression and smoke testing using frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Appium.
- Integrate automation tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Assist in selecting tools and frameworks for test automation.
- Contribute to improving overall test coverage and reducing manual regression effort over time.
- Support the QA team in transitioning appropriate test cases from manual to automated tests
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 2–5 years of experience in software quality assurance.
- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.
- Hands-on experience with manual testing of web and/or mobile applications.
- Working knowledge of test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
- Basic experience with automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.).
- Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman or Rest Assured.
- Understanding of version control systems (Git preferred).
- Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Exposure to Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience with SQL for data validation.
- Knowledge of performance or security testing concepts is a plus.
- Experience working in a CI/CD environment.
ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract
