Remote Part-Time QA Engineer — Manual & Automation

The 19th; United States; On-site; USD 13,948,000 - 18,598,000; Part time

Job summary

The 19th is seeking a part-time QA contractor to support our Product & Technology team. You will perform manual testing across web and mobile products and help build automated test coverage to reduce manual testing load.

You will develop test plans, write test cases, log bugs, and contribute to CI/CD integration while collaborating with designers and product managers. Remote work available for U.S. based candidates.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in manual QA testing (web and/or mobile applications).
• Strong understanding of the software testing lifecycle.
• Experience writing clear, detailed test cases and bug reports.
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Linear).
• Familiarity with testing tools (e.g., BrowserStack).
• Ability to read and understand product requirements/specs.
• Strong attention to detail and pattern recognition for edge cases.
• Good written communication skills.
• Experience with WCAG accessibility guidelines and screen reader software (e.g., VoiceOver, NVDA).
• 1+ years of experience in test automation, QA engineering.
• Solid programming skills in at least one language commonly used for test automation (JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Python).
• Proven experience building automated test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, PHPUnit, Jest).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Docker, CircleCI).
• Experience with version control (Git).

Responsibilities

• Execute manual testing across all our products (web, mobile, aggregation applications, and internal tools)
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases and test content (e.g., sample articles) across all our products
• Identify, document and track bugs while providing input on prioritization and urgency
• Verify bug fixes and perform regression testing before releases
• Maintain clear, up-to-date documentation of testing coverage and known issues
• Design, develop and maintain automated test suites (UI, API, integration and/or end-to-end)
• Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Build and maintain test frameworks and internal tools to improve testing efficiency
• Identify gaps in automated coverage and work with product managers to prioritize what to automate
• Monitor and report on test coverage, quality metrics and release readiness
• Collaborate with our designer to execute front-end testing and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Create test content (e.g., sample articles) to support QA of CMS and publishing workflows
• Test for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance and accessibility acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with developers and product managers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria

Skills

Manual QA testing

QA lifecycle

Test case writing

Bug tracking tools

BrowserStack

Read specs

Attention to detail

Written communication

WCAG accessibility

Test automation

Programming for test automation

CI/CD tools

Git

Playwright

Tools

Jira

Linear

BrowserStack

GitHub Actions

Docker

CircleCI

Playwright

PHPUnit

Jest

Job description

The 19th is seeking a part-time QA contractor to support our Product & Technology team. You will perform manual testing across web and mobile products and help build automated test coverage to reduce manual testing load.

You will develop test plans, write test cases, log bugs, and contribute to CI/CD integration while collaborating with designers and product managers. Remote work available for U.S. based candidates.