Senior Backend QA Engineer - Remote & Automation Focus

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office or remote work option

Remote onboarding

Performance bonuses (annual/quarterly)

Company library and training resources

Health and life insurance

Wellbeing program and corporate psych

Job summary

Kyivstar.Tech is seeking a General QA Engineer to join a Ukrainian hybrid IT company under Kyivstar. You will work in a cross-functional team on a high-load telecom platform, focusing on backend testing, API validation, and performance. Strong automation, SQL, and CI experience are essential.

The role supports remote work options and offers opportunities for learning, growth, and collaboration in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of QA engineering experience with backend focus.
• Expertise in end-to-end data flow validation between services and databases.
• Strong knowledge of automation and CI integration using Java/TypeScript.
• Performance testing and interpretation of latency, throughput, error rate.
• Requirements analysis, test strategy creation, and test plans.
• SQL with complex joins and data integrity checks.
• Experience with MOCK-SERVER or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in a cross-functional team with PMs, analysts, and developers on a high-load telecom platform.
• Plan, design and execute test scenarios; manage test executions and reporting.
• Perform API and integration testing across microservices.
• Conduct performance and load testing; automate tests and maintain builds.
• Create regression tests and maintain testing documentation.

Skills

Backend testing

Automation

SQL queries

Linux command line

Git

CI pipelines

Test design

English communication

Education

Higher technical education

Tools

Postman

IntelliJ IDEA

Jira

Confluence

Zephyr

GitLab

Jenkins

Kibana

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Kyivstar.Tech is seeking a General QA Engineer to join a Ukrainian hybrid IT company under Kyivstar. You will work in a cross-functional team on a high-load telecom platform, focusing on backend testing, API validation, and performance. Strong automation, SQL, and CI experience are essential.

The role supports remote work options and offers opportunities for learning, growth, and collaboration in an Agile environment.