Middle QA Engineer

Role Overview We are looking for a hands-on Middle QA Engineer to help bring a product from late-stage development into a stable production release. The role focuses on finding critical issues, improving day-to-day QA practices, validating releases, and working closely with developers to reduce regressions and production risk. Key Responsibilities • Test new and existing functionality across web applications, APIs, and integrations. • Perform functional, exploratory, regression, smoke, and basic end-to-end testing. • Identify, reproduce, document, and track bugs with clear steps, evidence, severity, and expected behavior. • Validate bug fixes and ensure resolved issues do not introduce new regressions. • Maintain practical test cases and regression checklists for critical user flows. • Test REST APIs using tools such as Postman, Insomnia, Swagger, or similar tools. • Verify QA/staging environments and report environment-related issues that block reliable testing. • Support release readiness by checking critical flows before deployment and performing post-release smoke testing. • Work closely with developers and product stakeholders to clarify requirements and raise quality risks early. • Contribute to basic test automation where useful, especially for repetitive regression scenarios. Requirements • 2+ years of practical QA experience in web or SaaS products. • Strong knowledge of software testing fundamentals and bug life cycle. • Experience testing APIs and working with browser developer tools. • Ability to understand client-server behavior, logs, HTTP requests, and common integration issues. • Experience with Jira, Linear, YouTrack, or another issue-tracking system. • Basic SQL knowledge for validating application data. • Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and test automation is a strong advantage. • Good communication, ownership, and attention to detail. Primary Goal Help the team reach a stable production state by reducing critical defects, creating a reliable regression process, and making release quality visible and repeatable.