Middle+ QA Manual

Job Description

• Work within the overall release process rather than in dedicated feature teams
• Focus on validating ready functionality — strong integration testing skills are important
• Perform manual functional, smoke, regression, and UAT testing
• Validate releases in staging and production environments
• Develop and maintain test cases (Zephyr) and test scenarios
• Run automated tests and analyze results
• Verify correct UI display and behavior across different browsers
• Work with logs (ELK), APIs (Postman), and message queues (Kafka)
• Maintain test documentation in Jira / Confluence
• Collaborate with PM and QA TL on release processes
• Participate in QA estimation and release preparation
• Proactively identify defects in already delivered functionality

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in manual testing
• Experience in REST API testing (Postman, Swagger)
• Strong SQL skills for common operations (SELECT, JOIN, UPDATE, etc.)
• Ability to develop test cases, test scenarios, and checklists
• Experience in testing:
• web applications
• client-server solutions
• Understanding of software requirements quality criteria
• Strong defect analysis and root cause investigation skills
• Experience participating in the release cycle (build verification, smoke, sanity, UAT)
• Knowledge of test documentation and QA process standards
• Understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience in UI testing across different browsers and screen resolutions
• Experience working with Kafka
• Experience working with logs and using them for defect analysis
• Experience running automated tests and analyzing reports (Jenkins, Allure)
• Ability to plan and estimate testing scope
• Attention to detail, analytical mindset, and high level of self-discipline

Nice to have:

• Strong hands-on experience with log analysis tools (ELK, Kibana)

Benefits

• 25 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
• Flexible start to the workday
• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
• Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
• Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
• Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support