Manual QA Analyst

This role is open only to candidates currently living in Mexico or Latin America. Applications from other regions will not be considered. Responsibilities: — Analyze requirements and acceptance criteria before development starts, raising ambiguities and edge cases early. — Design, document, and maintain test cases and test plans, ensuring traceability from requirements to defects. — Run exploratory testing with defined charters and scope, finding issues beyond scripted tests. — Own manual regression scope, deciding what to check each release based on risk. — Triage production issues: reproduce, isolate, assign severity, escalate, and verify fixes. — Design and produce complex test data involving multiple roles, permission levels, states, and high document volume. — Validate permission hierarchies and tenant-level data isolation. — Write detailed defect reports with steps, evidence, and environment details for asynchronous review. — Communicate quality status and residual risk to stakeholders for informed release decisions. — Collaborate with automation engineers to hand off stabilized cases and focus automated suites on critical areas. Requirements: — Minimum 5 years of software quality assurance experience, including 3 years testing complex, business-critical web applications. — Strong command of test design techniques: equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, state transition testing. — Experience with disciplined exploratory testing. — Experience triaging production issues, distinguishing technical severity from business priority. — Experience designing test data for multi-role, multi-permission scenarios. — Working knowledge of SQL for data validation. — Experience validating APIs with Postman or equivalent. — Proficiency with Jira and test management tools like TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray. — Excellent written and spoken English communication skills. — Experience in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban) and working across time zones with US Pacific business hours overlap. — Ability to maintain quality under schedule pressure and explain technical risks in business terms. Bonus Points: — Ability to read, run, and interpret automated test suites (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) without owning them. — Experience testing document-heavy or highly configurable SaaS platforms. — Experience in regulated industries such as legal, healthcare, or financial services. — Familiarity with audit trails, access controls, and data retention requirements. — ISTQB Foundation certification or equivalent formal training. — Experience with accessibility testing against WCAG guidelines. — Experience using AI-assisted tools for drafting test cases or summarizing exploratory sessions with validation judgment. About the company: MagmaLabs is a team of innovative software professionals delivering high-quality solutions across diverse industries, prioritizing excellence, creativity, continuous growth, professional development, mentorship, and a culture of technical excellence.