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** [Learn More](https://www.softswiss.com/game-aggregator/) ## 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.