Backend QA Engineer
About the role
Accountabilities
- Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories to design
comprehensive test cases, scenarios, and coverage strategies
.
- Perform end-to-end testing of transaction lifecycles, including initiation, authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and related workflows.
- Proactively explore the platform to identify
edge cases, unexpected behavior, risks, and gaps
not covered by existing specifications.
- Validate data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across services using
SQL queries against PostgreSQL and MySQL
.
- Test
REST and gRPC APIs
using tools such as Postman, grpcurl, or equivalent solutions, validating requests, responses, error handling, and edge cases.
- Verify event-driven workflows across message brokers such as
Kafka, RabbitMQ, and NATS
, including retries, failures, ordering, and duplicate-message handling.
- Write, maintain, and extend automated regression tests in
Go
, collaborating with developers when additional test coverage or technical support is required.
- Log, prioritize, track, and manage defects in
Jira
, providing clear reproduction steps, payloads, logs, and relevant technical context.
- Execute regression testing following deployments and help ensure releases meet expected quality standards.
- Contribute to improving QA processes, automation coverage, and overall testing efficiency across the platform.
Requirements
4+ years of professional manual testing experience
, with a strong focus on backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Previous experience testing products in
iGaming, fintech, payment gateways, banking, or another transaction-intensive domain
.
- Strong proficiency in writing intermediate
SQL queries
for validating and investigating data in relational databases.
- Hands-on experience with
API testing tools
, particularly Postman, as well as test management platforms such as TestRail or Zephyr.
- Ability to read
Go code
and write or extend automated tests in Go; previous automation experience in another programming language is acceptable if you are willing to work with Go.
- Working knowledge of
Docker
and the ability to run and test services locally.
- Solid understanding of
Agile/Scrum methodologies
and the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, combined with meticulous attention to detail.
- Experience with
microservices architectures
and backend systems is highly valuable.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, or observability and monitoring tools is a plus.
- Experience supporting
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
with business stakeholders is an advantage.
- Existing professional experience with Go and/or Playwright is considered a plus.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineering and business teams in a fully remote environment.
Benefits
Fully remote
work with a globally distributed team.
- Full-time opportunity within a fast-growing technology environment.
- The opportunity to help
build and scale a B2B platform from the ground up
within a newly established technology ecosystem.
- Collaboration with teammates and technical professionals from around the world.
- Up to
28 unavailable days per year
, in addition to public holidays.
- Significant ownership and the opportunity to shape quality practices across a high-traffic platform.
- Exposure to modern backend technologies, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and automated testing.
- An environment where engineering quality, initiative, and proactive problem-solving are highly valued.
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