Software Test Engineer – Pentabay Softwares, Chennai

About this Software Test Engineer Pentabay Softwares

Pentabay Softwares wants to add a Software Test Engineer to its team to strengthen product quality and release confidence. The Software Test Engineer Pentabay Softwares involves working closely with developers, product managers and other testers across the full software testing life cycle.

In this role you will perform manual testing including functional, regression, integration, UI and exploratory testing. You can see the full list of responsibilities in the job details above.

Chennai is a major centre for banking, SaaS and enterprise software testing, with many long-term QA projects.

Work type: Fresher, Manual, API Testing.

Key skills for the Software Test Engineer role

These are the skills the hiring team highlighted for this opening. Make sure your resume shows each one with a real example.

• Manual testing – write strong test cases, explore features and report clear defects.
• Functional Testing – show real project experience with Functional Testing in your resume and be ready to explain it with an example.
• Regression testing – protect existing features with a smart, prioritised regression suite.
• API testing – validate status codes, schemas, auth and edge cases for REST/GraphQL services.
• Postman – organise API collections, environments and assertions for quick API checks.
• Selenium WebDriver – build maintainable UI automation with the Page Object Model and solid locator strategies.
• Playwright – write stable cross-browser UI tests with auto-waits, fixtures and parallel runs.

Want to sharpen these skills? The official ISTQB syllabus is a great free reference for testing fundamentals.

A typical day in this role

• Join the daily stand-up to review sprint progress, blockers and what needs testing today.
• Write and maintain automated tests, fix flaky scripts and review test results from the CI pipeline.
• Test APIs for correct responses, error handling, authentication and performance.
• Test new features against acceptance criteria and explore edge cases users might hit.
• Log clear, reproducible bugs with steps, screenshots and logs, then re-test fixes.
• Update test cases and share test status with the team before the end of the day.

Who should apply

This opening suits freshers and early-career testers. Strong basics (SDLC, STLC, test case design, bug life cycle) and a willingness to learn matter more than years of experience.

If you match most of the skills above, apply for this Software Test Engineer Pentabay Softwares even if you do not tick every single box – hiring teams value strong fundamentals and a clear, honest resume.

How to apply for this Software Test Engineer Pentabay Softwares

1. Open the Daily QA Jobs list – a fresh list goes live every day at 9:00 AM IST.
2. Find the Software Test Engineer opening at Pentabay Softwares and copy the HR email ID.
3. Send a short, polite email with your updated resume and a 3–4 line summary of matching skills.
4. Follow up once after 3–5 working days if you have not heard back.

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Interview preparation tips

• Be ready to walk through one real project: the app, your testing approach, tools used and the toughest bug you found.
• Expect a live coding round – practise writing a small UI or API test, handling waits and explaining your framework structure.
• Revise HTTP methods, status codes, headers, auth tokens and how you validate a JSON response.
• Prepare test case design techniques – boundary value, equivalence partitioning and decision tables.
• Revise SDLC vs STLC, severity vs priority, and the bug life cycle – common fresher questions.
• Keep your resume ATS-friendly and matched to the skills listed in this job description.

Career growth after this role

Starting here gives you real project experience. With 2–3 years of steady work and automation skills, testers usually move into QA Engineer or Automation Engineer roles with better pay and ownership.

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