Manual QA Engineer

About Fulcrum: We’re a team of tech-savvy, creative & passionate IT professionals. We’ve created a vibrant and performance-driven culture for ourselves where everyone is free to think & act outside the box. There are literally no limits to what you can do here, as long as we WOW our clients and OVER deliver what we promise.

We are now looking for Middle+/Senior Manual QA engineer to join our team on a part-time basis (start with 40-50h per month, then up to 80h )

About the project

We’re building a Canada-based digital platform in the real-estate domain, focused on improving the overall homeowner experience. The product brings together several interconnected services related to property ownership, management, and decision-making into a single user-centric ecosystem. It’s a complex, long-term product designed to support users throughout different stages of owning and managing a home.

Key Responsibilities


- validate frontend components against design and legacy references
- verify pixel-perfect styling, responsiveness, and cross-browser behavior
- test component functionality: inputs, outputs, state handling, and edge cases
- validate third-party and backend integrations, including live data via homeca-orchestrator
- verify demo data scenarios: happy, sad, minimal, and extreme cases
- review and validate unit test coverage and quality
- perform accessibility checks to ensure zero critical wcag violations
- validate performance requirements for component rendering

Definition of Done you’ll enforce:

- visual regression ≤ 1% compared to legacy (where applicable)
- test coverage ≥ 85% per component (validated, not assumed)
- render time < 100ms for simple components
- demo and live data fully verified
- no critical accessibility issues

Requirements

- 4+ years of experience as a QA engineer testing frontend applications or component libraries.
- Strong understanding of UI/UX testing principles and pixel-level validation.
- Experience testing Angular component-based systems (strong plus).
- Hands-on experience with test case design for happy, sad, minimal, and extreme scenarios.
- Experience validating api and backend integrations from a frontend perspective.
- Ability to reason about performance and identify rendering or interaction bottlenecks.
- Web testing, devtools, test management tools.
- Bug lifecycle understanding.
- Test design techniques practical application.
- Test documentation (plans, strategies, cases, etc) creation and support.
- B1+ level of English

Nice-to-have skills

• Familiarity with accessibility testing and wcag standards.

• Experience with API testing

• Familiarity with visual regression testing tools

• Experience reviewing unit tests and coverage reports

• Exposure to performance testing tools or browser profiling

Hiring process

• Test task (1-1.5h)

• Recruiter interview (40 min)

• Technical interview (1h)

• Final interview with Hiring manager

  What we offer:
  
  - Flexible schedule & opportunity to work remotely or workspace in Kyiv (kooperativ.cc);
  - Friendly & open team who have fun creating cool projects together;
  - Opportunity to boost your professional & personal growth;
  - Regular team gathering activities;
  
  

  How we operate:
  
  - We promise dramatic professional growth & interesting work
  - Bring ideas that will change how Fulcrum operates, and you will receive our gratitude and rewards
  - Your opinion matters. Fulcrum is not a typical ’bureaucratic company, and our employees are our core value
  - Your compensation grows with your responsibility zone
  - If something doesn’t go smoothly or can be simplified, just let us know — you are welcome to do so
  - You have a say in everything we do, starting from the roadmap, creating requirements, sprint planning, etc.
  - If you feel that everything above is about you, get in touch. We’re always glad to welcome stubborn, enthusiastic, and result-oriented buddies to our team
  
  Are you interested in working with us?
  
  LET’S MOVE THE WORLD TOGETHER!