Manual QA Engineer - Senior

Overview:

SOFTSWISS continues to expand the team and is looking for a Manual QA Engineer to join our BackOffice team. We need a true, experienced, and accomplished professional who shares our culture and values.

About Product:

SOFTSWISS Game Aggregator
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Key responsibilities:

• Own QA for your product team end-to-end: test strategy, checklists, test cases, etc.

• Measure product quality with meaningful QA metrics and indicators (not vanity numbers)

• Report QA status, risks, and plans to your team and product stakeholders

• Review feature requirements early; surface gaps, ambiguities, and risks before development

• Lead releases as the responsible QA; monitor deploy results in production

• Diagnose defects and track them from discovery to resolution

• Validate data directly in the databases - you will work with databases on daily as part of this role

• Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and business

• Give product demos to the Product Owner

• Research and adopt new QA approaches and tools, including AI-assisted QA (agents, skills) to speed up routine work

• Continuously improve the team’s QA process

Required Experience:

• 4+ years in QA of server-side / backend applications

• Strong test design & analysis - risk-based prioritization, solid test-design techniques, and exploratory testing

• Systematic mindset and independence - proven experience improving QA processes and driving them, comfortable in a mixed Scrum / non-Scrum environment

• Strong hands-on experience with microservice-based systems -this is the core of the role. You understand the trade-offs of microservice architecture (pros and cons)

• API testing - confident with Postman and REST APIs

• CI/CD - understands pipelines and can read them (GitLab CI)

• Bug tracking - Jira, structured defect management and reporting

• Strong troubleshooting - can localize a failure (frontend vs backend vs data vs infra)

• Logs / observability - able to investigate via ELK / Grafana

• English - Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher; good communication skills

Nice to have:

• Prior ClickHouse experience

• Web UI testing and familiarity with design systems (component libraries)

• Test automation tools - experience using test automation tools such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or similar technologies

• AI for QA productivity - using agents / skills / LLM tooling to automate and speed up routine work

• Product / iGaming domain experience

Our Benefits:

• Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours

• Private insurance

• Additional 1 Day Off per calendar year

• Sports program compensation

• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme

• Free online English lessons with a native speaker

• Generous referral program

• Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events.