Remote QA Engineer: Automation & Release Quality

Openkrill; United States; Remoto; USD 110.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Openkrill is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to build a disciplined, scalable approach to product quality across mobile applications and backend services. You will combine exploratory testing, automation, API testing, and release validation to ensure features are reliable, secure, and ready for users.

You will work with engineering and product teams to identify risk early, strengthen regression coverage, improve automated testing, and provide clear visibility into product quality before

Competenze

• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Software Testing.
• Strong experience with both exploratory testing and automated testing.
• Experience testing mobile applications and APIs.
• Programming experience sufficient to design, write, debug, and maintain automated tests.
• Working knowledge of Git, code review, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience developing software and automated tests both with and without AI-assisted coding tools.
• Ability to effectively use generative AI and coding assistants while maintaining ownership of the resulting code.
• Strong understanding of how to review, test, debug, and validate AI-generated code.
• Ability to identify potential security, reliability, and maintainability issues in AI-assisted development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Mansioni

• Plan and execute exploratory, functional, regression, API, and mobile testing.
• Test across multiple devices, operating systems, browsers, and network conditions.
• Identify high-risk areas and prioritize testing based on potential user and business impact.
• Validate critical user journeys across the product.
• Verify fixes and perform regression testing before releases.
• Maintain clear documentation of test coverage, results, and known risks.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for critical product workflows.
• Build reliable automated checks for mobile applications, APIs, and platform services.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD workflows.
• Investigate and resolve flaky or unreliable tests.
• Maintain reusable test data and testing infrastructure.
• Continuously improve the balance between automated and exploratory testing.
• Identify, document, and communicate defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
• Partner with engineers to investigate issues and identify potential root causes.
• Verify fixes and ensure that resolved defects do not introduce regressions.
• Track recurring issues and identify opportunities to improve product quality upstream.
• Participate in release planning and readiness reviews.
• Define and communicate release risks, unresolved defects, and testing gaps.
• Help establish measurable quality standards and release criteria.
• Provide clear recommendations based on testing evidence and risk.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure quality is considered throughout the development lifecycle.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define clear acceptance criteria.
• Work with developers to improve testability and prevent recurring defects.
• Collaborate with Support and Trust & Safety to identify patterns in customer-reported issues.
• Contribute to accessibility, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• Help establish QA processes and best practices as the engineering organization grows.

Descrizione del lavoro

Openkrill is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to build a disciplined, scalable approach to product quality across mobile applications and backend services. You will combine exploratory testing, automation, API testing, and release validation to ensure features are reliable, secure, and ready for users.

You will work with engineering and product teams to identify risk early, strengthen regression coverage, improve automated testing, and provide clear visibility into product quality before