
Senior Manual QA Engineer
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About the Position
We are looking for an experienced Senior Manual QA Engineer to join a product development team building a modern SaaS platform in the healthcare technology domain. The platform includes web applications, REST APIs, and integrations with third-party services, helping enterprise customers streamline complex business processes.
You will play a key role in ensuring product quality by defining testing strategies, executing comprehensive manual testing, mentoring other QA engineers, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Leads manual testing for front-end, back-end, and API-based applications using React, FastAPI, Flask, and other web technologies.
- Quickly learns complex products, adapts to changing priorities, and makes effective decisions in fast-paced environments.
- Defines test strategies, priorities, and coverage based on requirements, technical complexity, and business risk.
- Creates and maintains test cases, test suites, and test cycles in TestRail.
- Performs feature, smoke, regression, integration, validation, exploratory, and end-to-end testing.
- Tests REST API endpoints in Postman, including payloads, status codes, authentication, error handling, and data integrity.
- Validates workflows across user interfaces, APIs, back-end services, databases, and third-party integrations.
- Uses AI tools to enhance test cases, identify edge cases, reduce repetitive work, and improve testing efficiency.
- Documents, prioritizes, and tracks defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
- Collaborates with developers, product managers, and business analysts to clarify requirements and resolve quality issues.
- Leads defect triage, evaluates release readiness, and communicates risks and recommendations.
- Mentors QA team members and improves testing standards, processes, and documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Manual Quality Assurance for web applications.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Hands-on experience testing complex web applications, backend services, and REST APIs.
- Solid experience with API testing using Postman or similar tools.
- Experience creating and maintaining structured test documentation, including test cases, test plans, and regression suites.
- Experience using TestRail or similar test management platforms.
- Strong knowledge of functional, regression, integration, exploratory, smoke, sanity, validation, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience working with relational databases and writing basic SQL queries for data validation.
- Solid understanding of HTTP, REST architecture, JSON, authentication methods, and client-server communication.
- Experience using bug tracking systems such as Jira.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate within cross-functional Agile teams.
- Experience mentoring QA engineers and driving quality improvements.
- Upper-Intermediate or higher English (written and spoken).
We Offer
- 20 working days of paid vacation per year
- Official holidays of Ukraine – days off
- Modern equipment for work
- Corporate events
- External and internal training: conferences, professional events, courses, TechTalks
- English speaking club
Hiring Process
- HR Interview
- Technical interview
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