QA Engineer - Manual & Exploratory Testing

We are recruiting on behalf of a high-growth digital platform business seeking a QA Engineer with strong manual and exploratory testing experience. This is an opportunity to join a lean, internationally distributed team building transaction-heavy products used across multiple markets.

The successful candidate will work closely with engineering to improve release quality, identify issues early, and strengthen testing practices across customer-facing journeys, integrations, and internal tooling.

The role

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys finding issues before they reach users, thrives in a fast-moving environment, and takes ownership of testing across new features and existing functionality. You will play a key part in validating user flows, investigating edge cases, documenting defects clearly, and supporting a reliable release process.

Key responsibilities
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Manual & exploratory testing

• Carry out exploratory testing across new features, workflows, and releases before production deployment
• Identify edge cases, unusual behaviours, and potential failure points that may not be covered elsewhere
• Perform regression testing to ensure existing functionality remains stable following updates
• Test end-to-end transactional journeys, integration points, and customer-facing features across different regions and environments

QA process & reporting

• Produce clear, structured bug reports with replication steps, testing context, and expected versus actual outcomes
• Create and maintain test cases for business-critical workflows
• Contribute to improving QA processes, documentation, and overall testing standards as the function evolves

Collaboration

• Partner closely with developers during feature development and pre-release stages
• Provide accurate and timely testing feedback to reduce downstream issues
• Help identify regressions and quality risks early in the development lifecycle

Candidate profile

Experience

• Around 2–4 years of experience in manual QA within a live product environment
• Comfortable working in agile, fast-paced teams with a strong sense of ownership
• Previous experience in a startup, scale-up, or similarly dynamic environment would be beneficial

Technical capability

• Experience writing and maintaining test cases, defect logs, and QA documentation using tools such as JIRA, Linear, Notion, or similar
• Confident testing web-based products across browsers, devices, and responsive environments
• Familiarity with API testing tools and browser developer tools for validation and troubleshooting

Skills

• Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to testing
• Good problem-solving skills with the ability to isolate and describe issues effectively
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English

Desirable

• Exposure to payments, fintech, digital assets, or other high-volume transaction environments
• Basic scripting knowledge in Python or JavaScript for light automation, test data preparation, or tooling support

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