Strong Middle-Senior QA Engineer

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:

• Hands-on testing of new functionality (mostly manual; occasional UI/API automation is a plus).
• Regression & smoke testing before every release.
• Write clear bug reports and prepare concise test summary reports.
• Keep documentation up to date (test plans, checklists, how-to guides).
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to uphold product quality.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, backlog grooming & estimation, sprint planning, retrospectives.
  
  

Requirements:

• 5+ years as a QA Engineer, with at least 3 years in manual QA roles on .NET/React & microservices projects.
• Strong manual-testing skills for browser SPAs and backend REST APIs.
• Ability to analyze business requirements, spot ambiguities or contradictions, and flag them early.
• Experience authoring checklists, test cases, test plans, and test reports.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and modern testing approaches.
• Deep knowledge of HTTP (how browsers work, cookies, local storage), HTML/CSS fundamentals.
• Proficiency with Chrome DevTools and transparent proxy tools for traffic inspection.
• Hands-on with bug-tracking systems (Jira, YouTrack, etc.) and standard QA workflows.
• Familiarity with client-service architecture, including WebSocket (SignalR) testing.
• 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:

• Experience writing Software Requirements Specifications.
• Hands-on with Postman for API testing.
• Participation in or independent execution of load testing (JMeter/Gatling).
• Background in security testing (finding common web vulnerabilities).
• Basic SQL querying skills.
• Ability to read Kibana logs and draw actionable insights.
• Exposure to UI/API automation frameworks.

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.