Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

GigRadar; Remote; IDR 1.005.361.000 - 1.508.043.000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech firm in Bali is seeking a QA Engineer to enhance their application quality through robust testing strategies and automation. Your responsibilities will include developing test cases, conducting deep manual testing, and building automation frameworks. The ideal candidate should have 3-5 years of hands-on QA experience, a solid understanding of REST APIs, and an automation-first mindset. This role offers autonomy in a fast-paced environment with competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Benefits

Autonomy in role

Impactful work

Equity opportunities

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on QA experience on complex software systems.
• Ability to think in systems and ensure repeatability in testing.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs and validating API behavior.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve test plans and cases across web and service layers.
• Build reliable automation suites for regression and performance testing.
• Design scenarios for validating LLM safety and prompt injections.

Skills

QA experience

Automation mindset

REST API knowledge

Deep manual testing

Clear documentation

Tools

Playwright

Puppeteer

GitHub Actions

Postman

Job description

Location: Bali (relocation sponsored)

Team: Application Engineering

Why GigRadar?

We’re the bootstrapped, scrappy crew behind GigRadar.io — the AI-powered growth engine for 800+ Upwork-first agencies. Shipping fast is our default, and quality is non-negotiable. Your mission: break our product before our users do, then help us bullet‑proof it.

What you’ll own

• Test strategy & execution – author, maintain, and continuously improve test plans, cases, scenarios, and checklists across web (React/TypeScript) and service layers (REST, GraphQL).
• Automation at scale – build and extend reliable Playwright / Puppeteer suites for regression, smoke, and performance. CI is GitHub Actions; flaky tests get no mercy.
• LLM safety testing – design adversarial prompt‑injection and jailbreak scenarios for our Langfuse/OpenAI pipelines; validate guardrails, rate limits, and red‑team exploits.
• API diligence – craft Postman / code‑level tests that hammer our endpoints, validate schema changes, and surface latent edge‑cases.
• Quality culture – pair with devs on PRs, champion shift‑left testing, and turn bug reports into repeatable test artifacts.

Must‑haves

• Hands‑on QA experience working on complex, production‑grade software systems.
• 3‑5 years hands‑on QA (exceptional candidates with ~2 yrs experience in automation‑focused QA roles are also welcome).
• Automation‑first mindset — even when testing manually, you think in systems, inputs/outputs, and repeatability.
• Ability to perform deep manual testing by reasoning about system state, data integrity, async behavior, and edge conditions.
• Strong QA fundamentals: test design techniques, exploratory testing, regression planning, and defect lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs and hands‑on experience validating API behavior beyond the UI.
• Able to work async, write clear documentation, and give direct, constructive feedback.

Nice‑to‑haves

• Exposure to JavaScript/TypeScript or similar programming languages, with the ability to read test code and reason about automation patterns.
• Hands‑on experience contributing to test automation frameworks (Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress, or similar).
• Practical exposure to GraphQL testing.
• Experience working with CI/CD environments (GitHub Actions, Vercel, or similar).
• Interest or early experience testing LLM‑powered features or AI workflows.
• Basic performance or load testing exposure (k6, Artillery, etc.).

What’s in it for you

• Autonomy, not bureaucracy – ship improvements end‑to‑end.
• Direct impact – your work touches thousands of proposals a day.
• Fair comp + meaningful equity – we’re scaling, you’ll ride the upside.

Ready to stress‑test the future of freelance growth? Shoot your CV. If you wow us, you’ll get a take‑home challenge, no leet‑code, just real bugs.

We move fast. So should you.