Junior QA Analyst (ASE) - Full-time, onsite

Grayhat Developers Private Limited; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 670,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Direct exposure to real clientprojects

Mentorship from senior engineers

Experience across AI, gaming, and dev-

Fast-feedback environment

Autonomy in ownership

Job summary

Grayhat Developers Private Limited is seeking a Junior QA Analyst (ASE) for an onsite, full-time role in Islamabad. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and founders to ship production-grade systems across web, AI, multiplayer, and platform projects.

Ideal candidates have strong software fundamentals and a willingness to grow across diverse tech domains. You will engage in architecture discussions, reviews, and debugging, ensuring performance and UX are optimized.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, problem solving, and system thinking.
• Familiarity with frontend or backend development workflows and tooling.
• Understanding of APIs, databases, asynchronous systems, and software architecture basics.
• Comfortable with Git and collaborative engineering workflows.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt across different technologies and project domains.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development workflows without outsourcing critical thinking to AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production-ready features across web, backend, mobile, AI, and game systems depending on project needs.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and product stakeholders to turn ideas into working products quickly.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code using modern development practices.
• Participate in architecture discussions, sprint planning, code reviews, and technical post-mortems.
• Debug and optimize applications for performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Work with APIs, databases, real-time systems, multiplayer stacks, and cloud infrastructure.
• Use AI tools effectively to accelerate development, research, debugging, testing, and workflows.
• Contribute to internal tooling, developer experience improvements, and engineering workflows.

Skills

Strong fundamentals

Frontend backend workflows

APIs databases systems

Git collaboration

Learning agility

Clear communication

AI-assisted development curiosity

Tools

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Junior QA Analyst (ASE) - Full-time, onsite

Engineering @ Grayhat

We're looking for an Associate Software Engineer who wants to build real products, solve hard engineering problems, and grow rapidly in a high-ownership environment.

This is not a maintenance role where tickets disappear into a backlog. You'll work closely with senior engineers, designers, and founders to ship production-grade systems across web, AI, multiplayer, and platform engineering projects.

You'll be expected to think critically, communicate clearly, and execute fast without compromising engineering quality.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship production-ready features across web, backend, mobile, AI, and game systems depending on project needs.


• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and product stakeholders to turn ideas into working products quickly.


• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code using modern development practices.


• Participate in architecture discussions, sprint planning, code reviews, and technical post-mortems.


• Debug and optimize applications for performance, reliability, and user experience.


• Work with APIs, databases, real-time systems, multiplayer stacks, and cloud infrastructure.


• Use AI tools effectively to accelerate development, research, debugging, testing, and workflows.


• Contribute to internal tooling, developer experience improvements, and engineering workflows.

What We're Looking For

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, problem solving, and system thinking.


• Familiarity with frontend or backend development workflows and tooling.


• Understanding of APIs, databases, asynchronous systems, and software architecture basics.


• Comfortable with Git and collaborative engineering workflows.


• Ability to learn quickly and adapt across different technologies and project domains.


• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly.


• Curiosity about AI-assisted development workflows without outsourcing critical thinking to AI.


• Final year student, fresh graduate, or early-career engineer with strong project work.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React, NextJS, Unity, Node.js, or cloud platforms.


• Exposure to AI integrations, LLM tooling, or agentic workflows.


• Experience building multiplayer systems, real-time apps, or WebSocket-based systems.


• Prior internships, freelance work, open-source contributions, hackathons, or shipped side projects.


• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, or deployment workflows.


• Strong product intuition and attention to UX/detail.

What You'll Get

• Competitive compensation based on capability and growth potential.


• Direct exposure to real client projects and production systems from day one.


• Mentorship from engineers working on fast-moving, high-impact products.


• Experience across multiple domains: AI, gaming, product engineering, enterprise systems, and developer tools.


• A fast-feedback environment designed to accelerate your technical and professional growth.


• Ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to shape products that ship globally.


• Potential growth into specialized engineering or leadership tracks.

What We Look For In Engineers

Potential.

Capacity.

Willingness to learn.

Growth mindset.

Then come skills.

We value people who can think independently, learn aggressively, communicate clearly, and execute reliably under pressure. We prefer engineers with strong fundamentals and product intuition over people who only optimize for frameworks or trends.

AI is a tool. We expect engineers to use it well, not delegate their reasoning to it.