• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand requirements, acceptance criteria, and potential risks. • Develop comprehensive test plans and test cases covering functional, regression, integration, and performance scenarios. • Perform manual testing for exploratory, usability, and edge-case scenarios. • Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites (UI, API, and regression). • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality feedback. • Monitor and maintain test results, ensuring failures are triaged quickly. • Log, prioritize, and track defects using issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Azure Linear). • Partner with developers to reproduce, debug, and verify fixes. • Provide transparent reporting on test coverage, pass/fail rates, and quality trends. • Participate in design reviews, backlog grooming, and sprint planning to identify potential issues early. • Suggest process improvements to enhance efficiency and prevent defects.