About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a QA Engineer (Manual, Web Platform) based in India.
Responsibilities
- Test new platform features end to end across frontend, backend, APIs, and third-party integrations.
- Perform regression testing before releases and production smoke testing following each release.
- Validate business and technical requirements with Product and Engineering teams before development begins.
- Investigate defects using application logs, API responses, browser network traffic, and other diagnostic tools.
- Create clear, detailed, and reproducible bug reports with relevant evidence and technical context.
- Act as the first point of contact for quality-related requests from Monetization, Finance, and Product Tech teams.
- Reproduce reported issues, assess their severity and impact, and escalate findings with clear supporting facts.
- Maintain and update test documentation in TestRail, Jira, and Confluence.
- Apply risk-based testing principles to prioritize coverage and focus on the areas with the greatest potential impact.
- Collaborate with the Automation QA team to identify test cases and scenarios suitable for automation.
- Use AI-assisted QA tools as part of daily testing workflows while critically reviewing and validating their output.
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on manual QA experience testing web applications across frontend, backend, and API layers.
- Strong risk-based test design skills, with the ability to explain testing priorities, coverage decisions, and trade-offs.
- Practical API testing experience with tools such as Postman or Charles and Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Strong root-cause investigation skills using Chrome DevTools, including HAR files, network activity, and browser storage, as well as application logs.
- Experience across the full release cycle, including feature testing, regression testing, and production smoke testing.
- Daily experience using AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, or similar solutions in QA workflows, with the ability to critically assess generated outputs.
- Experience working in a product company or startup environment with frequent releases and short development iterations.
- Written English strong enough to produce clear technical documentation and reproducible bug reports.
- Strong ownership, transparency, and communication skills, including the ability to flag risks and delays early.
- Experience testing payments and subscriptions, including Chargebee, Adapty, Payrails, trials, taxes, Apple Pay, or Google Pay, is a plus.
- Familiarity with web funnels, A/B testing, analytics event validation, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or GTM dataLayer is advantageous.
- Experience with Datadog or Grafana is a plus.
- Experience testing AI-powered features is beneficial.
- Basic Playwright and TypeScript knowledge is an advantage.
Conditions
- Fully remote working model.
- Opportunity to work on a core platform supporting subscription-based digital products.
- Exposure to web funnels, payments, subscriptions, integrations, and high-impact platform functionality.
- AI-first working environment with AI integrated into broader engineering and operational workflows.
- High engineering standards and a strong focus on quality.
- High level of autonomy with no micromanagement.
- Fast-paced environment with short iterations and frequent releases.
- Opportunity to collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Monetization, Finance, Product Tech, and Automation QA teams.
- Fast hiring process, typically completed within approximately 1–2 weeks.