QA Functional Analyst (Temporary)

About the role

You are an analytical and proactive QA Functional Analyst who enjoys understanding complex business processes beyond the user interface. This is a temporary 3‑month opportunity where you will ensure end‑to‑end quality of applications, validating business rules, transactions and data across multiple layers.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and acceptance criteria to identify scenarios, risks and coverage gaps.
• Design and execute functional, integration, regression and end‑to‑end tests.
• Validate business rules and complete workflows across frontend, backend and database layers.
• Use SQL to verify data consistency, transaction integrity and correct persistence.
• Document, track, retest and follow defects through resolution.
• Prioritize testing according to business and technical risks.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners and distributed teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and communicate progress, blockers and quality concerns.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in functional quality assurance for complex or enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with functional, integration, regression and end‑to‑end testing.
• Intermediate SQL skills, including joins, aggregations, subqueries and data validation.
• Experience validating data consistency, transaction integrity and persistence across multiple layers.
• Knowledge of formal test‑design techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables and risk‑based testing.

Required skills

• SQL for data validation.
• Postman and Swagger for API testing.
• Jira with Xray or Zephyr for test management.
• Exposure to test automation, CI/CD pipelines and backend integrations.