Senior QA Engineer (Web)

Social Discovery Group; Sydney; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote opportunity

Vacation 28 days per year

Wellness days 7 per year

Bonuses up to $5000

Health benefits up to $1000

Job summary

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Senior QA Engineer (Web) for a remote, full-time role. You will drive QA across features, review specs, and design thorough test plans while collaborating with Product and engineering teams worldwide.

The role emphasizes cross-browser testing, API validation, and potential automation work. Fluency in Russian and English is required. Competitive benefits and ongoing learning opportunities are provided.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated QA methodology and testing processes.
• Experience with web tech, client-server concepts, and APIs.
• Strong cross-browser and responsive testing skills across modern browsers.
• Proficiency with DevTools and debugging proxies.
• API testing experience with Postman and REST/GraphQL.
• Hands-on with Jira, Allure TestOps, and Git.
• Bonus: Playwright, Cypress or Selenium; scripting in JS/TS or Python.

Responsibilities

• Drive QA for business features from hand-off to production release.
• Review specs, prepare test plans, and create test cases and checklists.
• Provide estimates for testing tasks and meet deadlines.
• Perform functional, exploratory, regression, UI/UX, cross-browser, and API testing.
• Contribute to test automation where applicable.
• Collaborate with Product, Front-End, Back-End engineers, and Architects.
• Support releases by validating builds and monitoring live issues.
• Track QA metrics like defect escape rate and coverage.

Skills

QA methodology

Web tech basics

Cross-browser testing

DevTools debugging

API testing

Test automation

Communication

Time management

Russian language

English language

Tools

Jira

Allure TestOps

Git

Postman

REST

GraphQL

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python scripting

Job description

++Social Discovery Group++ (SDG) is a group of social discovery companies. SDG solves the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG's products redefine the way people interact and connect with one another.

Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures and regions of the world.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals who specialize in creating and developing globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of digital nomads works remotely from all over the world.

We're proud to be a two-time "Great Place to Work" winner (USA & Japan, 2024--2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025).

Senior QA Engineer (Web)

Your main tasks will be:

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

We expect from you:

• Solid grounding in QA methodology, test design, and the overall testing process.
• Good understanding of web tech and client-server architecture --- HTTP/HTTPS, REST, DOM, cookies, cache, local storage
• Cross-browser and responsive testing experience (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, mobile viewports)
• Comfortable with DevTools and debugging proxies (Proxyman, Charles, Fiddler or similar)
• API testing experience --- Postman, REST/GraphQL, working with test data
• Hands‑on with Jira, Allure TestOps (or similar), and Git
• Bonus: experience with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium, and basic JS/TS or Python scripting
• Clear communicator, detail-oriented, good at problem-solving and time management
• Fluent Russian and good English - both required

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time;
• INITIAL PAY LEVEL or PAY RANGE for this role will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process and before the commencement of employment;
• VACATION 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 WELLNESS DAYS PER YEAR (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• BONUSES UP TO $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• 50% payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• HEALTH BENEFITS. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor's fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• INTERNAL GAMIFIED GRATITUDE SYSTEM: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for our merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

The initial pay level or pay range for this role will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process and before the commencement of employment.