QA Engineer: Kotlin IDE Automation & Quality

JetBrains; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

Remote work up to 30 days abroad

Medical insurance allowance

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

JetBrains is seeking a QA engineer to ensure Kotlin plugin quality across IntelliJ IDEA and related tooling. You will own exploratory testing, design maintainable automation, and expand test coverage for Kotlin tooling.

You will collaborate with developers to spot edge cases, report findings, and prevent regressions while maintaining high standards of code quality and reliability for millions of developers.

Qualifications

• Read and write clean code to create test examples, investigate failures.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or another OO language.
• Experience designing test scenarios and deciding what should be automated.
• Experience with bug trackers, version control, and CI systems.
• Familiarity with Java technologies, frameworks, and build tools like Maven or Gradle.
• Ability to analyze complex technical behaviors such as static analysis or language tooling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers on exploratory testing of new and modified IDE functionality.
• Investigate and pinpoint bugs, report findings in our tracker, and perform regression testing.
• Design maintainable test scenarios and decide which ones should be automated.
• Write and maintain automated tests in Kotlin to expand coverage of IDE functionality.
• Analyze existing test coverage, identify critical gaps, and help prioritize future automation efforts.
• Participate in product planning to assess technical risks and plan QA work for proposed changes.
• Improve test coverage for Kotlin-related functionality in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other priority areas of Kotlin tooling.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Object‑oriented programming

Exploratory testing

Automation design

Bug trackers

Version control

CI systems

Maven

Gradle

Tools

Bug trackers

Version control

CI systems

Maven

Gradle

Job description

JetBrains is seeking a QA engineer to ensure Kotlin plugin quality across IntelliJ IDEA and related tooling. You will own exploratory testing, design maintainable automation, and expand test coverage for Kotlin tooling.

You will collaborate with developers to spot edge cases, report findings, and prevent regressions while maintaining high standards of code quality and reliability for millions of developers.