Response Informatics
Mobile Functional Tester
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Job Description – Mobile Functional Tester
Role Purpose
The Mobile Functional Tester is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, usability, and performance of mobile banking applications across iOS and Android platforms. The role covers end-to-end functional validation, integration testing, defect management, and customer experience assurance within a regulated financial-services environment, in close collaboration with Agile delivery teams.
Key Requirements
To be successful as a Mobile Functional Tester, you should have experience with:
- Strong hands-on testing expertise: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, UAT Support, and Defect Management.
- Mobile application testing experience on iOS and Android platforms across phones and tablets.
- Experience validating native, hybrid, and responsive mobile applications.
- Strong understanding of mobile testing concepts including installation, upgrades, notifications, device compatibility, offline functionality, and network validation.
- Technical skills: SQL, API Testing (REST/SOAP), Postman, Swagger, and database validation.
- Test management tools proficiency: JIRA, Confluence, ALM/Test Management platforms.
- Knowledge of mobile testing tools such as BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Firebase, Charles Proxy, or equivalent.
- Agile delivery experience: Working knowledge of Scrum/Agile methodologies and active participation in sprint ceremonies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate issues, analyse logs, and identify root causes.
- Ability to independently manage testing activities for assigned applications/modules with minimal supervision.
- Banking and Financial Services domain experience preferred.
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Other Highly Valued Skills
- Mobile Validation: Perform detailed testing of mobile application functionality, UI/UX behavior, navigation flows, notifications, device compatibility, accessibility, and customer journeys.
- API & Backend Validation: Validate integrations between mobile applications and backend services using API and database testing techniques.
- Defect Management: Log, track, retest, and verify defects while collaborating with development teams to ensure timely resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Cross-Device Testing: Validate application behavior across multiple OS versions, devices, screen resolutions, and network conditions.
- Requirements Collaboration: Work closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, UX teams, and Test Leads to clarify requirements and ensure complete test coverage.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure delivered functionality meets business requirements, acceptance criteria, accessibility standards, and established quality expectations.
- Risk & Compliance Awareness: Support testing activities in alignment with applicable risk, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Continuous Improvement: Follow testing standards, best practices, and Agile methodologies while contributing to process improvements and knowledge sharing.
- Customer Experience Focus: Validate digital journeys from an end-user perspective to ensure seamless and intuitive mobile banking experiences.
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Key Responsibilities
- Create and execute test scenarios, test cases, and test data for mobile applications.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, and exploratory testing.
- Validate customer journeys across iOS and Android platforms.
- Execute API and database validations supporting mobile functionality.
- Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with development teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
- Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
- Provide accurate testing status updates, quality metrics, and risk assessments.
- Support production validation and post-release verification activities.
Critical Skills Assessment
Candidates may be assessed on critical capabilities required for success in the role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology proficiency, along with mobile testing expertise, API validation, defect management, Agile delivery, and financial-services domain knowledge.
This job description has been structured for a Mobile Functional Tester role and emphasizes practical testing expertise, cross-functional collaboration, regulatory awareness, and delivery quality.
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