Remote Mobile QA Engineer | Manual Testing + Automation

Social Discovery Group; Georgia; On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Vacation 28 days/year

Wellness days 7/year

Bonuses up to $5000 for referrals

Training reimbursement 50%

Health benefits up to $1000/year

Equipment & workspace support

Job summary

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a distributed team delivering social discovery products to connect people worldwide. We are seeking a Manual QA Engineer to join our mobile team, testing across iOS and Android, real devices and emulators, and validating end-to-end workflows with API integrations.

You will define test strategy, create cases, run manual and exploratory tests, and help set up automation for regression and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of mobile app testing (iOS & Android, real devices + emulators/simulators + devices on cloud).
• Experience in writing and executing test cases, scenarios, and checklists.
• Familiarity with API testing (Postman, REST/GraphQL tools, automation frameworks).
• Experience in test automation tools/frameworks (e.g., Appium, Flutter Driver, Detox, Selenium, Maestro).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines is plus (e.g., Bitrise, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Knowledge of regression, smoke, exploratory, and performance testing.

Responsibilities

• Understand app features, workflows, business rules, and backend/API dependencies.
• Define and maintain test strategy, test cases, and checklists for all features and workflows.
• Perform manual functional, integration, UI/UX, exploratory, and regression testing.
• Validate end-to-end workflows across mobile, backend, APIs, and third-party integrations.
• Test on multiple devices, platforms, and OS versions (real devices + simulators/emulators).
• Execute smoke/sanity tests for new builds and pre-release validation.
• Validate store release builds (Play Store / App Store) including metadata, links, and deeplinks.
• Support UAT with product team and report defects with detailed logs and reproducible steps.
• Set up and maintain automation frameworks (UI + API) for regression and smoke tests.
• Automate core workflows (login, signup, payments, search, checkout, notifications, etc.).
• Integrate automation tests with CI/CD pipelines for nightly and pre-release runs.
• Create test data setup/teardown scripts for stable automation runs.
• Generate and share test reports with coverage, pass/fail results, and screenshots.
• Continuously improve automation scripts for speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• Track and report QA metrics (test coverage, defect density, automation health)

Skills

Manual testing

Test planning

API testing

CI/CD familiarity

Logs & debugging

English & Russian

Tools

Appium

Flutter Driver

Detox

Selenium

Maestro

Job description

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a distributed team delivering social discovery products to connect people worldwide. We are seeking a Manual QA Engineer to join our mobile team, testing across iOS and Android, real devices and emulators, and validating end-to-end workflows with API integrations.

You will define test strategy, create cases, run manual and exploratory tests, and help set up automation for regression and CI/CD integration.