Junior QA Specialist

About the Position

We are currently looking for a Junior QA Specialist to join our project Brainer, which is building a comprehensive online platform for measuring, training, and systematically developing human cognitive abilities.

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Manual testing of the web product: user scenarios, landing pages, quizzes, payment flows, subscriptions, and personal account functionality.
• Analysis of requirements, designs, and product tasks before development, identifying unclear cases, gaps, and potential risks.
• Creation and maintenance of test cases, checklists, regression suites, and QA documentation.
• Conducting smoke, regression, functional, exploratory, cross-browser, and mobile web testing.
• Creating high-quality bug reports with clear steps to reproduce, actual/expected results, screenshots/videos, logs, and environment details.
• Verifying bug fixes and participating in release testing. Basic validation of analytics/tracking events in product and marketing user flows.
• Investigating production issues using browser DevTools, logs, Sentry/monitoring tools, and analytics data.
• Participating in the creation and maintenance of basic automated tests for critical user flows using Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.

Requirements

• Confident understanding of manual QA fundamentals: test cases, checklists, bug reports, smoke/regression testing.
• Experience testing web applications, including responsive layouts, cross-browser testing, mobile web testing, and end-to-end user flows.
• Ability to analyze requirements, design mockups, and product tasks, identifying non-obvious cases, gaps, and potential risks before release.
• Experience testing APIs using Postman, Insomnia, or similar tools: REST API, JSON, status codes, request/response validation.
• Basic understanding of client-server architecture, browser DevTools, cookies, local storage, network requests, and logs.
• Ability to clearly document bugs, including steps to reproduce, actual result, expected result, screenshots/videos, and environment details.

Nice to Have

• Technical education or relevant technical background.
• Experience with automated testing: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar tools.
• Basic knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Experience testing payment flows, subscriptions, checkout, refunds, and cancellation flows.
• Experience validating analytics events, tracking pixels, and marketing funnels.

We Offer

• Support for your self-realization and career growth: both vertical and horizontal development, opportunities to work across different niches, and compensation for external courses and conferences.
• Flexible working hours (you can start your workday anytime between 8:00 and 11:00 AM Kyiv time).
• An office in Kyiv, coworking spaces in Lviv or Warsaw, or the option to work remotely - the choice is yours.
• 28 working days of paid vacation per year, up to 30 days of sick leave with medical confirmation, plus all public holidays observed.
• Care for your health: medical insurance, a Mental Health program, and compensation for therapy sessions.
• Ukrainian Victory Support program and other meaningful social initiatives.
• Quarterly team buildings (online or offline).
• Equipment compensation during blackouts.
• Maximum support in challenging life situations.

About the Company

Brainer is dedicated to building a comprehensive online platform for measuring, training, and systematically developing human cognitive abilities.

Application Process

The stages you’ll go through:

1. Pre-screen
2. Technical Interview
3. Test Task
4. Final Validation (if needed)
5. Reference Check
6. Job Offer

For comfortable work, we offer:

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Kate Kravchenko

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