QA Engineer

About the Project

Our client is a well-established European company, developing Cloud applications for a large international user base. We are looking for a QA Engineer to strengthen an agile team. This is a temporary, full-time role for 7–8 months.

Conditions:

• Direct cooperation with the client

• Full-time, 7–8 months
• Start ASAP

Upper Associate to Professional level — must be able to test independently from day one, with no ramp-up period.

Responsibilities

• Cover the full testing lifecycle: test design, planning, execution and reporting
• Manage test cases and test runs in Jira and Xray Cloud, and document in Confluence
• Test REST APIs: build requests, validate responses, status codes and JSON payloads
• Analyse system behaviour and write structured, reproducible bug reports
• Clarify and critically question requirements with the Product Owner, developers and business stakeholders
• Collaborate daily within Scrum/Kanban teams and advise on test strategy and planning
• Use AI tools to support testing, including AI-assisted test automation
• Proactively run exploratory testing of new features without waiting for instructions

Requirements

• 3+ years of commercial experience in manual QA, at a level where you can work fully independently
• Hands-on experience with Atlassian Cloud (Jira, Confluence) and Xray Cloud
• Solid experience in REST API testing, including an understanding of authentication methods
• Experience working in agile teams (Scrum/Kanban)
• Confident, critical use of AI tools in daily work, including AI-assisted test automation (no coding required)
• ISTQB CTFL certification - strong plus
• B2+ English, spoken and written
• Availability to start immediately or within 1 week

Nice to Have

• Xray or Atlassian certification
• Basic SQL / PostgreSQL knowledge: checking and setting up test data, and verifying results against the database
• Experience with Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines