Role Overview:
We’re looking for a highly motivated QA Tester who is passionate about quality, deeply curious, and eager to ensure that our partners’ products—especially games—perform flawlessly on our platform. You’ll play a critical role in maintaining the trust of our users and partners by setting standards, proactively anticipating issues, and owning the quality of experiences across a wide range of environments.
This is a remote contract position that will likely start as a 3-month contract.
Responsibilities:
- Validate Partner Products: Test and verify that our partners’ games and experiences function seamlessly across various environments—devices, operating systems, browsers, regions, locales, and network conditions.
- Set QA Standards: Create, maintain, and evolve checklists and test plans for key workflows such as sales demos, public launches, and partner onboarding.
- Think Ahead: Design test cases that simulate diverse customer environments and behaviors, staying one step ahead of real-world issues.
- Manual Testing: Execute exploratory, smoke, sanity, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Functional & Non-Functional Testing: Ensure features not only work, but perform well under real-world conditions.
- Own the Output: Deliver clear, actionable QA reports and documentation to guide teams and inform decisions.
Parallelz Cultural Values
Drive to Win. High Performance Matters: We are inspired by those who pursue excellence, and we work with those who do. Achieving this required hard work, humility, and a commitment to constant improvement.
Challenge the Status Quo. Innovate Constantly: Curiosity drives us. We challenge the status quo and pursue ideas that fuel continuous growth.
Lead with First Principles. Reduce, Rethink, Rebuild: We deconstruct challenges to their atomic level, rethink and challenge assumptions, and pursue deep understanding to create impactful innovations.
Act Like It’s Yours. Own It: Everyone is expected to think like an owner. Taking full responsibility for understanding the inputs, outputs, and context to deliver and be accountable to the results that move the vision forward.
Parallelz is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process.
Requirements
- 1–2 years of experience in QA or software testing roles
- Strong understanding of manual testing practices, techniques, and tools
- Experience testing across platforms (web, mobile, desktop) and environments
- Familiarity with writing and maintaining QA documentation and test cases
- A proactive mindset—constantly looking to improve coverage and identify edge cases
- Excellent communication and reporting skills
- Nice-to-have: Experience with automation tools like Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
- Nice-to-have: Experience with games
Top Skills
What We Do
Parallelz is building a new platform and software architecture that instantly transforms native mobile apps into native web apps, with zero compromise in visual quality or user experience. Parallelz enables developers to easily distribute their applications across multiple digital and social channels, independently from app stores. Parallelz was founded by experienced mobile gaming and software leaders including serial entrepreneurs and technologists from Google, Mozilla, MIT Media Lab, Bridgewater Associates and other top technology companies.
