QA Engineer — Remote, Ownership & Automation

JetBrains; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

Remote work

Relocation support

Medical insurance allowance

Lunch allowance

On-site gym stipend

Job summary

JetBrains is seeking a QA Engineer to own testing for the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate team, focusing on reliability for JVM frameworks like Spring, Jakarta EE, and Hibernate. You will balance exploratory testing with automation, working closely with developers to spot flaws early and with product managers to prioritize issues.

You will take responsibility for testing strategy, test automation, and ensuring enterprise tools remain stable as they evolve, across platforms and OSes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience testing commercial software applications.
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin sufficient to write test applications and read source code.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Practical familiarity with build tools (like Maven, Gradle, or Bazel), databases, and Docker containers.
• Experience testing software across different operating systems alongside basic system administration skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform exploratory testing of new and existing features to uncover edge cases.
• Run regression tests to ensure platform stability before releases.
• Maintain, write, and scale our automated test suites.
• Reproduce user-reported issues and provide technical support to resolve them.
• Collaborate with developers to share product knowledge and diagnose system bugs.
• Work with product managers to estimate the priority and business impact of issues.

Skills

QA Experience

Java/Kotlin

English fluency

Build tools

Collaboration

Tools

Maven/Gradle

Docker

Bazel

Job description

JetBrains is seeking a QA Engineer to own testing for the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate team, focusing on reliability for JVM frameworks like Spring, Jakarta EE, and Hibernate. You will balance exploratory testing with automation, working closely with developers to spot flaws early and with product managers to prioritize issues.

You will take responsibility for testing strategy, test automation, and ensuring enterprise tools remain stable as they evolve, across platforms and OSes.