QA Engineer (Remote-Worldwide)

This job is with our partner MIcro1

The Role

We’re looking for a QA Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and overall performance of our products. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle. You’ll be responsible for testing new features, identifying and documenting issues, improving test coverage, and helping the team maintain a high standard of quality as we continue to build and ship quickly. The ideal candidate has strong manual testing fundamentals, hands-on experience with test automation, and a solid understanding of modern QA practices and software development lifecycles.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own testing activities across new features, product improvements, and bug fixes.
2. Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive manual test cases and test scenarios.
3. Identify, document, track, and validate bugs throughout the development lifecycle.
4. Build and maintain automated tests to improve regression coverage and overall testing efficiency.
5. Perform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing across the product.
6. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to understand requirements, identify potential risks, and ensure appropriate test coverage.
7. Participate in Agile development processes, including planning, refinement, and release cycles.
8. Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, testing practices, and overall product quality.
9. Manage testing priorities and communicate blockers, risks, and findings throughout the development lifecycle.

Required Skills and Qualifications

1. Proven experience in software quality assurance within agile, fast-paced environments.
2. Strong expertise in manual testing methodologies, test planning, and test execution.
3. Hands-on experience implementing, maintaining, and executing automated tests and testing frameworks.
4. Proven experience performing functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
5. Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, QA processes, and release validation.
6. Solid experience with bug-tracking systems, test management tools, and version control platforms.
7. Proven experience identifying, documenting, reproducing, and validating software defects.
8. Strong understanding of test coverage, regression strategies, and quality assurance best practices.