Manual QA Engineer (Backend)

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Hiring Remotely in Kyiv, Kiev, UKR
In-Office or Remote
Junior
Information Technology • Mobile • Software
The Role
The Manual QA Engineer will perform backend testing, create test documentation, collaborate with stakeholders, and validate features. Requires 2+ years in backend testing.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are building one of the most powerful live-streaming platforms, already connecting 400K+ monthly active users through live events, interactive video chats, and real-time community experiences. Our mission is bold: bring joy, fight loneliness, and deliver safe, ad-free entertainment that keeps people coming back. This is a complex, fast-moving space, and we love it that way! Every idea counts here, and every release reaches a massive global audience. We are now expanding into Arab countries and Europe, enhancing content quality, and rolling out new features to keep users hooked. We are among the Top 5 streaming products in the US and rank in the Top 10 worldwide. Our next milestone: break into the global Top 5, and we are moving fast to make it happen. 

About the role: We are looking for a Manual QA Engineer (Backend) who will become a key quality owner within the team — someone who is not just testing endpoints, but deeply understands product logic, user flows, and how backend stability directly impacts user experience at scale.

In this role, you will

    • Perform manual backend testing using API tools and databases for Mobile and Web applications

    • Conduct smoke, sanity, regression, and functional testing for new and existing features

    • Create and maintain test documentation including test cases, checklists, and bug reports

    • Participate in SCRUM ceremonies and all stages of the SDLC

    • Analyze requirements and actively participate in feature decomposition and estimations

    • Investigate, reproduce, and report bugs with clear prioritization and detailed context

    • Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders as a QA feature owner

    • Validate A/B tests and support feature quality during experiments and releases

It’s all about you

    • 2+ years of commercial experience in backend manual testing

    • Experience testing mobile applications (iOS and/or Android)

    • Strong practical knowledge of Postman, Swagger, and API testing approaches

    • Experience working with proxy/debugging tools such as Charles, Fiddler, or similar

    • Experience testing backend systems using relational or non-relational databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)

    • Understanding of QA processes, SDLC, Scrum, DoR, and DoD principles

    • Experience creating test documentation from scratch

    • Ability to analyze requirements and identify edge cases independently

    • Experience working with Jira and Confluence

    • Experience with A/B testing and validating experiment results

    • Intermediate+ level of English

    • Ability to quickly understand complex product logic and new technical concepts

    • Would be a plus:

    • Experience with A/B testing

    • Experience collaborating with Product Support teams
    • Expertise with MongoDB testing

What we offer

    Care and support: 

    • 20 paid vacation days, 15 sick days, and 6 additional days off for family events

    • Up to 10 additional days off for public holidays

    • 100% medical insurance coverage

    • Sports and equipment reimbursement

    • Team building events, corporate gifts, and stylish merch

    • Financial and legal support

    • Maternity recovery support allowance

    • Position retention and support for those who join the Armed Forces of Ukraine

    • Participation in social initiatives supporting Ukraine
       

    • Comfortable working environment:

      • Work from our Kyiv hub or remotely with a flexible schedule 

      • Modern equipment or depreciation of your own tools
         

      • Investment in your future:

        • Collaborate with a highly-skilled team of Middle & Senior professionals, sharing practical cases and expertise in the social networking niche

        • 70% of our heads and leads have grown into their roles here – so can you!

        • Performance-oriented reviews and Individual Development Plans (IDPs)

        • Reimbursement for professional courses and English classes

        • Corporate library, book club, and knowledge-sharing events

Hiring Process

    • Intro call

    • Technical interview

    • Test task

    • Final interview

    • Reference check

    • Offer

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of commercial experience in backend manual testing
  • Experience testing mobile applications (iOS and/or Android)
  • Strong practical knowledge of Postman, Swagger, and API testing approaches
  • Experience with proxy/debugging tools such as Charles, Fiddler
  • Experience testing backend systems using SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Understanding of QA processes, SDLC, Scrum principles
  • Experience creating test documentation
  • Ability to analyze requirements and identify edge cases
  • Experience working with Jira and Confluence
  • Intermediate+ level of English
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The Company
Kyiv, Kyiv
194 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

United Tech is a Ukrainian product IT company that develops its own mobile and web products in the social networking niche. Our brands are growing rapidly and attracting leading positions in their categories, influencing modern approaches to development and ambitious goals of our teams. For almost 5 years, United Tech team has been creating applications that are used by millions of users around the world. Our products’ primary market is Tier-1 region, including but not limited to USA, UK, Canada and leading European countries. Niches that cover our expertise: - social networking; - big data & analytics; - performance marketing; - payment solutions; - mobile apps.

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