QA Engineer

About Penbrothers

Penbrothers is an HR & remote talent management partner and one of the fastest growing companies in the Philippines. We provide talented Filipinos with global opportunities in highgrowth startups and dynamic companies, from the comfort of their own homes.

About the Role

Our client is looking for a dynamic, detailoriented QA Engineer to join our small but mighty engineering team and help ensure the quality and reliability of our web and mobile applications. As the first dedicated QA hire, you’ll define and lead our quality assurance process across the product lifecycle—from early design validation to postrelease monitoring and bug triage.

Work hours: 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM PH Time

Work setup: Remote

What you’ll do

1. Proactive QA During Design & Planning

• a. Review user stories and design specs to write comprehensive test plans

• b. Anticipate usability or logic issues and provide early feedback c. Define acceptance criteria and identify edge cases in collaboration with engineers and designers

• 2. Manual QA for Internal Builds

  • Perform smoke tests, exploratory testing, and regression testing on indevelopment builds

  • Log and triage issues in Jira with clear reproduction steps and severity ratings (P0–P3)

  • 3. PostRelease QA & Monitoring

    • Investigate and validate production bugs and anomalies

    • (Bonus) Use analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel) to track user behavior and detect dropoffs or errors

    • Recommend improvements to instrumentation and logging for better traceability

    • 4. Build EndtoEnd Automated Testing

      • Design and implement a test automation framework covering Web, iOS, and Android

      • Choose and set up tools like Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Playwright, or Detox, Katalon, tailored to each platform

      • Integrate test automation into CICD workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Bitrise)

      • Write and maintain automated test cases for regression, smoke, and endtoend testing

      • Ensure new features are covered by automation from day one

      • 5. QA Culture, Process, and Tooling

        • Own and evolve QA best practices and documentation

        • Maintain a prioritized bug backlog and enforce quality gates during releases

        • Collaborate on release checklists and QA signoffs using tools like Runway

        • Champion a qualityfirst mindset across the organization

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