General QA Engineer

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office or remote work option

Remote onboarding

Performance bonuses (annual/quarterly)

Company library and training resources

Health and life insurance

Wellbeing program and corporate psych

Job summary

Kyivstar.Tech is seeking a General QA Engineer to join a Ukrainian hybrid IT company under Kyivstar. You will work in a cross-functional team on a high-load telecom platform, focusing on backend testing, API validation, and performance. Strong automation, SQL, and CI experience are essential.

The role supports remote work options and offers opportunities for learning, growth, and collaboration in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of QA engineering experience with backend focus.
• Expertise in end-to-end data flow validation between services and databases.
• Strong knowledge of automation and CI integration using Java/TypeScript.
• Performance testing and interpretation of latency, throughput, error rate.
• Requirements analysis, test strategy creation, and test plans.
• SQL with complex joins and data integrity checks.
• Experience with MOCK-SERVER or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in a cross-functional team with PMs, analysts, and developers on a high-load telecom platform.
• Plan, design and execute test scenarios; manage test executions and reporting.
• Perform API and integration testing across microservices.
• Conduct performance and load testing; automate tests and maintain builds.
• Create regression tests and maintain testing documentation.

Skills

Backend testing

Automation

SQL queries

Linux command line

Git

CI pipelines

Test design

English communication

Education

Higher technical education

Tools

Postman

IntelliJ IDEA

Jira

Confluence

Zephyr

GitLab

Jenkins

Kibana

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are looking for a General QA Engineer

About us Kyivstar.Tech is a Ukrainian hybrid IT company and a resident of Diia.City.

We are a subsidiary of Kyivstar, one of Ukraine’s largest telecom operators.

Our mission is to change lives in Ukraine and around the world by creating technological solutions and products that unleash the potential of businesses and meet users’ needs.

Over 600+ KS.Tech specialists work daily in various areas: mobile and web solutions, as well as design, development, support, and technical maintenance of high-performance systems and services.

We believe in innovations that truly bring quality changes and constantly challenge conventional approaches and solutions.

Each of us is an adherent of entrepreneurial culture, which allows us never to stop, to evolve, and to create something new.

What you will do:

• Work in a cross-functional team with product managers, analysts and developers on a high-load telecom platform

• Test management (plan, test scenarios design, execution, follow-up, control)

• API and integration testing across microservices

• Performance and load testing

• Test automation and support of existing test builds

• Regression testing

• Testing reporting and documentation

Qualifications and experience needed:

• 4+ years of relevant working experience as a QA Engineer with a backend focus

• Strong backend testing experience: verifying end-to-end data flow between services, databases and message brokers, not only endpoint responses

• Great knowledge of automation tools and Java/TypeScript, with integration into CI pipelines

• Performance testing experience: load profiles, test execution, interpreting latency, throughput and error rate

• Excellent requirements analysis skills — identifying gaps and ambiguities before development starts

• Experience of composing test strategies and test plans

• Test design techniques knowledge

• Confident knowledge of testing methodologies

• SQL knowledge: complex queries with joins and aggregations, data integrity checks

• Linux/UNIX command line: log analysis, basic bash

• Practical skills with Git: branching, merging, code review

• Experience with MOCK-SERVER or a similar tool for isolating dependencies

• Knowledge of TCP, HTTP

• Understanding of client-server and microservices architectures: inter-service communication, failure points, idempotency

• Good knowledge of Postman, IntelliJ IDEA, Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr), GitLab, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana

• Higher technical education or equivalent relevant experience

• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment in close collaboration with the development team

• Excellent analytical skills, critical mindset

• Strong communication and troubleshooting skills

• English is spoken and written on the intermediate level or higher

Nice to have:

• Telecom domain experience: billing, charging, provisioning

• Kafka or RabbitMQ

• Docker, Kubernetes

• High-load systems experience

What we offer

• Office or remote it’s up to you.

• You can work from anywhere, and we will arrange your workplace.

• Remote onboarding.

• Performance bonuses for everyone (annual or quarterly depends on the role).

• We train employees: the opportunity to learn through the company’s own library, internal resources and programs from partners.

• Health and life insurance.

• Wellbeing program and corporate psychologist