Manual QA Engineer – Senior

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

• 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

• 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 (
  Git Lab 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 / Russian – Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher; good communication skills

• 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

• Private health insurance
• Sports benefits
• Free English lessons (online)
• Local language courses
• Paid time off
• Maternity leave support
• Referral program rewards
• Upskilling, internal workshops, and participation in professional conferences and corporate events