Strong Middle-Senior QA Engineer

BETER is an international product group of companies operating in the B2B segment, specializing in fast sports and esports tournaments and technological solutions for their distribution.

BETER is the exclusive rights holder of tournament products, broadcasting rights, and official data, and ensures their organization through professional tournament operators, including Setka Cup and ESportsBattle, which conduct official sports and esports events in accordance with established standards and under the auspices of relevant federations and regulatory requirements.

We are looking for a QA Engineer to join our team and ensure the highest quality of our sports analytics platform. If you enjoy digging into complex systems, designing and executing detailed test scenarios, and working closely with developers and product teams to deliver stable, high-performing releases - this role is for you. You’ll have the opportunity to influence testing processes, improve automation coverage, and contribute to building a reliable, data-driven product used by thousands of users.

Technology stack we work with: Microservice architecture, .NET 8+, MS Orleans, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, SignalR/WebSocket, k8s, AWS

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, backlog grooming & estimation, sprint planning, retrospectives.
• Analyze business and technical requirements to ensure testability and completeness.
• Generate test cases based on the requirements and other documents ensuring high test-coverage density.
• Design, implement, and execute functional and non-functional testing (mostly manual; occasional UI/API automation is a plus).
• Conduct regression & smoke testing before every release.
• Report, track, and manage clear defects in Jira.
• Prepare concise test summary reports.
• Keep documentation up to date (test plans, test cases, checklists, how-to guides).
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to uphold product quality.

Requirements:

• 5+ years as a QA Engineer(backend oriented), with at least 3 years in manual QA roles on .NET/React & microservices projects.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and STLC.
• Hands-on with bug-tracking systems (Jira, YouTrack, etc.).
• Ability to analyze business requirements, spot ambiguities or contradictions, and flag them early.
• Experience authoring checklists, test cases, test plans, and test reports.
• Strong manual-testing skills for browser SPAs.
• Strong hands-on experience in backend/API testing, including:
  • designing complex positive and negative test scenarios;
  • understanding REST principles and HTTP status codes;
  • validating data consistency across services;
  • working with authentication mechanisms;
  • analyzing request/response payloads in depth.
• Deep knowledge of HTTP (how browsers work, cookies, local storage), HTML/CSS fundamentals.
• Proficiency with Chrome DevTools and transparent proxy tools for traffic inspection.
• Good understanding of client-service architecture.
• Familiarity WebSocket (SignalR) testing.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases and basic SQL querying skills.
• English level - Intermediate and higher.

Will be a plus:

• Good knowledge and practical experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Ability to read Kibana logs and draw actionable insights.
• Participation in or independent execution of load testing (JMeter/Gatling).
• Background in security testing (finding common web vulnerabilities).
• Exposure to UI/API automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with the 'X-Ray' Jira plugin.
• ISTQB certification

We offer:

• Ability to work remotely;
• Competitive and timely payment for services;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Personal mentoring and coaching;
• Team building and corporate events;
• 100% paid sick leave;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• Paid child care leave.