qa engineer (manual) for social discovery products

Social Discovery Group is a group of social discovery companies addressing loneliness, isolation, and disconnection. Its portfolio includes social entertainment platforms that connect people online across cultures and regions.

• Drive quality assurance for business features from technical hand-off to successful production release;
• Review specifications, prepare test plans, and create comprehensive test cases and checklists before stabilization;
• Provide realistic estimates for testing tasks and meet committed deadlines;
• Conduct functional, exploratory, regression, UI/UX, cross-browser, and E2E API testing across modern browsers and responsive viewports;
• Contribute to web test automation;
• Maintain test documentation and conduct peer reviews, including test code reviews when involved in automation;
• Collaborate with Product, Front-End, Back-End engineers, and Architects throughout the development cycle;
• Support web production releases by validating builds, conducting smoke and regression checks, and monitoring live errors and performance;
• Track and improve QA metrics, including escaped defect rate and test coverage.

• Strong knowledge of QA methodology, test design, and the overall testing process;
• Good understanding of web technologies and client-server architecture, including HTTP/HTTPS, REST, DOM, cookies, cache, and local storage;
• Experience with cross-browser and responsive testing in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and mobile viewports;
• Experience with DevTools and debugging proxies such as Proxyman, Charles, or Fiddler;
• API testing experience with Postman, REST/GraphQL, and test data;
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Allure TestOps or similar tools, and Git;
• Clear communication, attention to detail, problem-solving, and time management skills;
• Fluent Russian and good English; both required;
• Nice to have: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, basic JS/TS or Python scripting.

• Vacation: 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 Wellness days per year;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants;
• 50% Payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• Health benefits, including compensation of up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee for eligible employees without corporate medical insurance;
• Equipped workplace and necessary equipment in company offices or co-working locations;
• Reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years in other locations;
• Internal gamified gratitude system with bonuses exchangeable for merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, and more.