Junior QA Engineer

We're looking for a Junior QA Engineer to join our engineering team and help us ship reliable software. You'll work alongside developers, product managers, and senior QA engineers to test new features, catch defects before they reach customers, and gradually take on test automation. This is an entry-level position. We expect you to be curious, detail-oriented, and willing to learn, not to arrive with years of experience. You'll be paired with a mentor for your first months.

Responsibilities:

• Read user stories and requirements, ask questions early, and flag gaps or ambiguity before development starts.
• Write, maintain, and execute manual test cases for new features and bug fixes.
• Run functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing across web [and mobile] applications.
• Report defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, and severity in [Jira], then verify fixes.
• Perform basic API testing using tools like Postman.
• Query the database with simple SQL to validate data and back up your findings.
• Help maintain test data, test environments, and test documentation.
• Contribute to release checklists and sign-off activities.
• Learn and gradually write automated tests (UI and API) under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Take part in sprint planning, stand-ups, refinement, and retrospectives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of the software development and testing life cycles, test case design techniques, and the defect life cycle.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language (Java, Python, or JavaScript) enough to read code and write simple scripts.
• Basic SQL knowledge.
• Familiarity with API concepts (REST, HTTP status codes, JSON) and a tool such as Postman.
• Exposure to a bug tracking or test management tool (Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to describe a problem clearly in writing.
• Comfortable asking questions and receiving feedback.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on practice with an automation framework (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress).
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Exposure to mobile testing (Android/iOS) or performance testing (JMeter, k6).
• ISTQB Foundation Level certification.
• Internship, personal projects, or a portfolio of testing work (GitHub repo, blog, test plans).