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Manual QA Engineer (Backend)

Kyiv, Ukraine
Full-Time
Remote

TLDR

Become a key quality owner in a dynamic team enhancing a leading live-streaming platform for over 400K users by executing comprehensive manual backend testing and ensuring product stability.

We are building one of the most powerful live-streaming platforms, already connecting 400K+ monthly active users through live events, interactive video chats, and real-time community experiences. Our mission is bold: bring joy, fight loneliness, and deliver safe, ad-free entertainment that keeps people coming back. This is a complex, fast-moving space, and we love it that way! Every idea counts here, and every release reaches a massive global audience. We are now expanding into Arab countries and Europe, enhancing content quality, and rolling out new features to keep users hooked. We are among the Top 5 streaming products in the US and rank in the Top 10 worldwide. Our next milestone: break into the global Top 5, and we are moving fast to make it happen.  About the role: We are looking for a Manual QA Engineer (Backend) who will become a key quality owner within the team — someone who is not just testing endpoints, but deeply understands product logic, user flows, and how backend stability directly impacts user experience at scale. In this role, you will

  • Perform manual backend testing using API tools and databases for Mobile and Web applications

  • Conduct smoke, sanity, regression, and functional testing for new and existing features

  • Create and maintain test documentation including test cases, checklists, and bug reports

  • Participate in SCRUM ceremonies and all stages of the SDLC

  • Analyze requirements and actively participate in feature decomposition and estimations

  • Investigate, reproduce, and report bugs with clear prioritization and detailed context

  • Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders as a QA feature owner

  • Validate A/B tests and support feature quality during experiments and releases

It’s all about you

  • 2+ years of commercial experience in backend manual testing

  • Experience testing mobile applications (iOS and/or Android)

  • Strong practical knowledge of Postman, Swagger, and API testing approaches

  • Experience working with proxy/debugging tools such as Charles, Fiddler, or similar

  • Experience testing backend systems using relational or non-relational databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)

  • Understanding of QA processes, SDLC, Scrum, DoR, and DoD principles

  • Experience creating test documentation from scratch

  • Ability to analyze requirements and identify edge cases independently

  • Experience working with Jira and Confluence

  • Experience with A/B testing and validating experiment results

  • Intermediate+ level of English

  • Ability to quickly understand complex product logic and new technical concepts

    • Would be a plus:

  • Experience with A/B testing

  • Experience collaborating with Product Support teams
  • Expertise with MongoDB testing
What we offer

Care and support: 

  • 20 paid vacation days, 15 sick days, and 6 additional days off for family events

  • Up to 10 additional days off for public holidays

  • 100% medical insurance coverage

  • Sports and equipment reimbursement

  • Team building events, corporate gifts, and stylish merch

  • Financial and legal support

  • Maternity recovery support allowance

  • Position retention and support for those who join the Armed Forces of Ukraine

  • Participation in social initiatives supporting Ukraine
     

    • Comfortable working environment:

    • Work from our Kyiv hub or remotely with a flexible schedule 

    • Modern equipment or depreciation of your own tools
       

      • Investment in your future:

      • Collaborate with a highly-skilled team of Middle & Senior professionals, sharing practical cases and expertise in the social networking niche

      • 70% of our heads and leads have grown into their roles here – so can you!

      • Performance-oriented reviews and Individual Development Plans (IDPs)

      • Reimbursement for professional courses and English classes

      • Corporate library, book club, and knowledge-sharing events

Hiring Process

  • Intro call

  • Technical interview

  • Test task

  • Final interview

  • Reference check

  • Offer

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United Tech develops a comprehensive global social networking and live-streaming platform that connects millions of users across various cultures and regions. Our products facilitate professional growth and community engagement, offering a safe, ad-free environment for interactive video chats and live events.

Founded
Founded 2016
Employees
51-200 employees
Industry
Internet Software & Services
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Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer
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