Senior Manual QA Engineer

• Own QA for the product team end-to-end, including test strategy, checklists, and test cases
• Measure product quality using meaningful QA metrics and indicators
• Report QA status, risks, and plans to the team and product stakeholders
• Review feature requirements early and surface gaps, ambiguities, and risks before development
• Lead releases as the responsible QA and monitor deployment results in production
• Diagnose defects and track them from discovery through resolution
• Validate data directly in databases on a daily basis
• Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and business teams
• Give product demos to the Product Owner
• Research and adopt new QA approaches and tools, including AI-assisted QA
• Continuously improve the team’s QA process

• 4+ years in QA of server-side / backend applications
• Strong test design & analysis, including risk-based prioritization, solid test-design techniques, and exploratory testing
• Proven experience improving QA processes and driving them
• Comfortable in a mixed Scrum / non-Scrum environment
• Strong hands-on experience with microservice-based systems
• Confident with Postman and REST APIs
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and ability to read GitLab CI pipelines
• Experience with Jira, structured defect management, and reporting
• Strong troubleshooting skills to localize failures across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure
• Ability to investigate logs and observability data via ELK / Grafana
• English and Russian at Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher
• Good communication skills

• Private health insurance
• Sports benefits
• Comprehensive Mental Health Program
• Free English lessons (online)
• Local language courses
• Paid time off
• Maternity leave support
• Referral program rewards
• Upskilling, internal workshops, and participation in professional conferences and corporate events