If you’re a hands-on QA who loves breaking things manually but also wants to learn and grow your automation skills, tackle technical challenges, and help maintain a strong engineering culture in a team of true professionals, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, backlog grooming & estimation, sprint planning, retrospectives.
• Analyze business and technical requirements to ensure testability and completeness.
• Generate test cases based on the requirements and other documents.
• Design, implement, and execute functional and non-functional testing (mostly manual; occasional UI/API automation is a plus).
• Conduct regression & smoke testing before every release.
• Report, track, and manage clear defects in Jira.
• Prepare concise test summary reports.
• Keep documentation up to date (test plans, test cases, checklists, how-to guides).
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to uphold product quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a QA Engineer, with at least 3 years in manual QA roles on .NET/React & microservices projects.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and STLC.
• Hands-on with bug-tracking systems (Jira, YouTrack, etc.).
• Ability to analyze business requirements, spot ambiguities or contradictions, and flag them early.
• Experience authoring checklists, test cases, test plans, and test reports.
• Strong manual-testing skills for browser SPAs.
• Experience testing APIs using tools such as Postman or similar.
• Deep knowledge of HTTP (how browsers work, cookies, local storage), HTML/CSS fundamentals.
• Proficiency with Chrome DevTools and transparent proxy tools for traffic inspection.
• Good understanding of client-service architecture.
• Familiarity with WebSocket (SignalR) testing.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases and basic SQL querying skills.
• English level - Intermediate and higher.

Exposure To Our Tech Stack

• Microservices & messaging: REST, Kafka (consumers/producers)
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry
• CI/CD pipelines: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
• Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD

Will Be a Plus

• Good knowledge and practical experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Ability to read Kibana logs and draw actionable insights.
• Participation in or independent execution of load testing (JMeter/Gatling).
• Background in security testing (finding common web vulnerabilities).
• Exposure to UI/API automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with the X-Ray Jira plugin.
• ISTQB certification

We Offer

• Ability to work remotely;
• Competitive and timely payment for services;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Personal mentoring and coaching;
• Team building and corporate events;
• 100% paid sick leave;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• Paid child care leave.

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland 11 months ago

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