At JetBrains, we are passionate about building the strongest, most effective developer tools in the world. Our tools are designed to give developers the freedom to grow, discover, and create. Over 15 million users rely on our tools, and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100 companies are our customers. Our products help our users stay focused on code design and the big picture, allowing them to deliver more creative and effective results.
The remote development functionality in JetBrains products redirects IDE-heavy processing from a local machine to a powerful remote server, reimagining how teams work. With hardware performance no longer a limitation, developers can work from anywhere while benefiting from improved security, stability, and reliability.
We're looking for a QA Engineer to join the Remote Development team and take ownership of quality within their areas of responsibility, navigate ambiguity, and proactively improve product quality.
What you'll doQuality assurance
- Perform functional, exploratory, regression, and acceptance testing.
- Ensure product stability and release readiness.
- Investigate, document, and report defects, ensuring they are prioritized, resolved, verified, and successfully delivered to users.
- Expand manual test case scenarios and keep existing ones up to date.
- Take ownership of complex testing areas and drive quality improvements through proactive initiatives.
- Monitor automated test execution results and troubleshoot test failures.
- Contribute to UI test automation by maintaining and extending automated tests using our established framework.
Team collaboration
- Work closely with developers and product stakeholders to clarify requirements and identify risks when feature documentation is incomplete or evolving.
- Update the internal knowledge base and share expertise with team members.
- Cooperate with the support team to reproduce issues reported by our valued users.
- Extensive hands-on QA experience.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English.
- The ability to read and understand Java or Kotlin code.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams.
- The ability to grasp new concepts quickly and to work both in a team and independently.
- Strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage your own workload based on team goals.
- Experience testing developer tools, IDEs, and desktop applications.
- Programming skills in Kotlin or Java sufficient to extend and maintain existing UI tests written using internal testing frameworks.
- Experience working with Linux environments and an understanding of operating system fundamentals.
- An understanding of networking fundamentals and their impact on distributed systems.
Why join JetBrains?
- Strong base salary. We offer competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience.
- Flexible work location. Enjoy the freedom to work from home or from the office.
- Remote work. Spend up to 30 days per year working remotely from abroad.
- Extra time off. More days to relax, recharge, and do the things you love.
- Medical insurance allowance. Enjoy peace of mind for you and your family
- Learning and development opportunities. Access to conferences, courses, and language classes.
- Relocation support. We help make your move as smooth and stress-free as possible.
- Language classes. Pick up the local language or sharpen your English skills.
- Fuel your day. Enjoy a hot meal or receive a lunch allowance on workdays.
- Mental health support. To help you feel your best, we provide easy access to professional mental health services.
- Sports benefit. Enjoy an on-site gym or sports club stipend.
- Internal events. Join company-wide celebrations and team gatherings.
*Some benefits may vary depending on location.
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Skills Required
- Extensive hands-on QA experience
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
- Ability to read and understand Java or Kotlin code
- Experience working in cross-functional teams
- Ability to grasp new concepts quickly and work both independently and in a team
- Strong prioritization skills and ability to manage own workload
- Experience testing developer tools, IDEs, or desktop applications
- Programming skills in Kotlin or Java sufficient to extend and maintain UI tests
- Experience working with Linux and understanding of operating system fundamentals
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and their impact on distributed systems
JetBrains Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JetBrains and has not been reviewed or approved by JetBrains.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is considered market-competitive for many product and engineering roles in key locations, with published salary ranges on some postings aiding expectation-setting. Feedback suggests total compensation feels fair relative to local markets even if packages are positioned as “competitive but not top‑of‑big‑tech”.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible Benefits: Work setup includes hybrid/remote options and flexible hours across many locations. The ability to work abroad for part of the year adds practical flexibility to where work gets done.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave & Time Off Breadth: Time off includes additional vacation days beyond local minimums in many countries. U.S. materials also highlight PTO, sick leave, and holidays, underscoring breadth beyond statutory baselines.
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What We Do
JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools consistently used and trusted by 11.4 million professionals and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies. Our lineup of more than 30 products includes IDEs for most programming languages and technologies, such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and others, as well as products for team collaboration, like YouTrack and TeamCity. JetBrains is also known for creating the Kotlin programming language, a cross-platform language used by more than 5 million developers worldwide yearly and recommended by Google as the preferred language for Android development. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and has offices around the world. JetBrains IDEs * IntelliJ IDEA (Java and Kotlin Developers) * PyCharm (Python developers) * PhpStorm (PHP developers) * GoLand (Go developers) * Rider (.NET developers) * CLion (C and C++ developers) * Rust Rover (Rust developers) * WebStorm (JavaScript & TypesScript developers) * RubyMine (Ruby and Rails developers) * DataGrip (Tool for multiple databases) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * Fleet (Multilingual IDE and code editor) * Aqua (IDE for test automation engineers) .NET & Visual Studio: * Rider (IDE for .NET developers) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * ReSharper C++ (Visual Studio Extension for C++ developers) * dotCover (.NET Unit Test Runner and Code Coverage Tool) * dotMemory (.NET Memory Profiler) * dotTrace (.NET Performance Profiler) * dotPeek (.NET decompiler and assembly browser) Team Tools: * TeamCity (Powerful CI out of the box) * YouTrack (Project management for all your teams) * Space (Intelligent code collaboration platform) * Datalore (Collaborative data science platform) * Qodana (Code quality platform for teams) Programming Languages: * Kotlin (Programming Language for the JVM and Android) * MPS (Create Your Own Domain-Specific Language) Education: * JetBrains Academy (Learn and Teach Computer Science) Profile by JetBrains s.r.o.
