Senior Manual QA Engineer - Backend & Microservices

Softswiss; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Sports benefits

Mental health program

Job summary

SOFTSWISS is seeking a Senior Manual QA Engineer to join our team, focusing on the Game Aggregator platform. You will own QA for your product team from strategy to release, working with microservice-based systems and data-heavy environments.

Collaboration with product, infra, and business is essential, and you will explore AI-assisted QA techniques to speed up routine tasks. In this role, you will test backend components, validate data in databases, and contribute to improving QA processes in a

Qualifications

• 4+ years in QA of server-side / backend applications.
• Strong test design & analysis; risk-based prioritization.
• Systematic mindset with proven QA process improvements.
• Hands-on with microservice-based systems; understand trade-offs.
• API testing using Postman and REST APIs.
• CI/CD pipelines and GitLab CI knowledge.
• Bug tracking with Jira and structured defect management.
• Strong troubleshooting across frontend, backend, data, and infra.
• Experience with logs/observability tools like ELK & Grafana.
• English and Russian at Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher.

Responsibilities

• Own QA strategy and end-to-end QA for product team.
• Define and monitor QA metrics and quality indicators.
• Report QA status, risks, and plans to stakeholders.
• Review requirements early to surface gaps, ambiguities, risks.
• Lead releases as QA owner; monitor production deploys.
• Diagnose defects from discovery to resolution.
• Validate data directly in databases; daily DB work.
• Collaborate with product, infra, and business units.
• Deliver product demos to Product Owner.
• Research and adopt new QA approaches, including AI-assisted QA.
• Continuously improve the QA process.

Skills

QA of server-side/backend apps

Test design & analysis

Systematic mindset

Microservices understanding

API testing (Postman & REST)

CI/CD (GitLab CI)

Bug tracking (Jira)

Troubleshooting (frontend/backend/data

Logs/observability (ELK/Grafana)

English & Russian (B2)

Tools

Postman

ELK

Grafana

Jira

Job description

SOFTSWISS is seeking a Senior Manual QA Engineer to join our team, focusing on the Game Aggregator platform. You will own QA for your product team from strategy to release, working with microservice-based systems and data-heavy environments.

Collaboration with product, infra, and business is essential, and you will explore AI-assisted QA techniques to speed up routine tasks. In this role, you will test backend components, validate data in databases, and contribute to improving QA processes in a