Software Quality Engineer

XieTech; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role based in the Philippines

Flexible hours

Job summary

XieTech seeks a QA Tester to help product teams identify risks early and ensure dependable digital experiences. You will plan and perform testing across features, integrations, and releases, collaborating with product, design, engineering, and DevOps to evaluate how software behaves under varied conditions.

Responsibilities include building risk-based test plans, executing manual and API tests, maintaining evidence of release quality, and identifying automation opportunities.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of software testing or QA experience.
• Experience with manual, API, regression, exploratory, automation, or release testing.
• Understanding of test design, risk-based testing, defect lifecycles, and release readiness.
• Ability to investigate unexpected behavior and distinguish product issues from data or environment problems.

Responsibilities

• Create risk-based test strategies and practical plans for features and releases.
• Perform manual, exploratory, regression, integration, compatibility, and API testing.
• Maintain test cases, test data, traceability, and evidence of release quality.
• Document defects with reproduction steps, impact, supporting evidence, and priority context; follow through triage and resolution.
• Identify useful automation opportunities and maintain reliable automated checks.
• Share quality metrics and work with teams early to help prevent defects.

Skills

Manual testing

API testing

Exploratory testing

Regression testing

Test design

Documentation

Automation opportunities

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

Job description

Role overview

Help product teams catch risks early and ship dependable digital experiences. You’ll plan and carry out testing across features, integrations, and releases, working with product, design, engineering, and DevOps to assess how software behaves for users in varied conditions.

Responsibilities

• Create risk-based test strategies and practical plans for features and releases.
• Perform manual, exploratory, regression, integration, compatibility, and API testing.
• Maintain test cases, test data, traceability, and evidence of release quality.
• Document defects with reproduction steps, impact, supporting evidence, and priority context; follow them through triage and resolution.
• Identify useful automation opportunities and maintain reliable automated checks.
• Share quality metrics and work with teams early to help prevent defects.

Requirements

• At least one year of software testing or quality assurance experience.
• Practical exposure to testing such as manual, API, regression, exploratory, automation, or release testing.
• Understanding of test design, risk-based testing, defect lifecycles, and release readiness.
• Ability to investigate unexpected behavior and distinguish product issues from data or environment problems.
• Clear written communication and careful documentation of test steps, evidence, and outcomes.
• Working knowledge of HTTP, browser behavior, APIs, databases, and versioned software delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience with an automation framework such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Familiarity with Postman or other REST clients, contract testing, or database validation.
• Exposure to accessibility, performance, security, mobile-device testing, or CI/CD test integration.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role based in the Philippines, with flexible hours.