Gandhi Nagar in Vijayawada has a full-time, on-site Junior Software Test Engineer opening paying INR 40,000 a month. No prior professional experience is required. It's built specifically for freshers stepping into their first QA role, and the company has said as much in how they've framed the hiring criteria.
What gets you in the door
A bachelor's degree is the entry requirement, and the company wants it grounded in computer science, IT, or a closely related field where the technical basics transfer with little friction. Since this role has zero months of required prior experience, what actually matters more at the interview stage is whether a candidate has done real testing work somewhere, even informally: a college project, a personal app they tested themselves, or coursework that involved writing actual test cases rather than just studying the theory behind them.
Genuine curiosity about how software breaks tends to matter here more than a polished resume. Someone who's poked at an app looking for edge cases out of curiosity usually picks up the job faster than someone who's only seen testing described in a textbook.
What the role involves
- Designing and executing test cases based on what a feature is supposed to do, and thinking through what happens when a user does something unexpected
- Identifying and reporting software defects clearly, with enough detail that a developer can actually reproduce the problem
- Verifying that fixes work as intended before a release goes out, rather than assuming a developer's "should be fixed now" note is the final word
- Working directly with developers throughout a sprint, flagging quality concerns early instead of saving everything for a big test cycle at the end
A recent case from the team: a form submission looked fine in every manual test until someone tried submitting it twice quickly by double-clicking, which created two duplicate database entries. Nobody had thought to test for that timing issue because it wasn't in the original spec, and it's a good example of why testers who ask, "what if someone does this weird thing," tend to catch problems that a strict checklist alone would miss.
Skills the team is looking for
Comfort with both manual and automation testing is expected, even at a junior level, along with some exposure to a test framework such as Selenium, TestNG, or a comparable tool. Basic defect tracking skills, meaning the ability to log a bug clearly in a shared tool like JIRA, round out the core requirements.
Beyond that, some scripting familiarity in Python or Java helps for anyone moving toward automation work down the line, and a working knowledge of SQL is genuinely useful for verifying data directly in the backend rather than only checking what the UI shows. Neither is required to apply, but both make the ramp-up noticeably smoother.
Pay and what's included
Base salary is INR 40,000 per month. This junior full-time QA role includes health insurance, paid time off, and provident fund contributions, standard for entry-level testing positions at this company. Because the job is on-site in Vijayawada, the employer also offers relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving from other cities, which matters for freshers relocating for their first job.
Team setup
This listing is being run through Naukri Mitra for a QA team based in Gandhi Nagar that's grown mostly by hiring and training freshers rather than poaching senior hires from elsewhere, so there's a real structure in place for someone new to actually learn the job properly instead of being thrown in with minimal guidance. Vijayawada's tech scene is smaller than the bigger metros, which tends to mean less competition for entry-level QA roles specifically, even as demand for testers keeps growing across the industry.
Recent graduates and final-year students nearing the end of their degree are both welcome to apply. Candidates should be ready to talk through how they'd test something simple, like a login form, and what edge cases come to mind, since that kind of thinking matters more at this stage than any specific tool experience. We review applications as they come in.
