Remote Quality Assurance Tester
Description
Remote Quality Assurance Tester
Set the Standard for Product Excellence
Bugs don’t stand a chance under your watch. You’re the kind of person who sees a flaw and immediately thinks, "How can I improve this for the next user?" That instinct is exactly what drives quality forward across every sprint, every feature, every release. In this remote Quality Assurance Tester role, you’ll shape more than test scripts—you’ll shape how users experience our product in real-world, high-stakes environments.
What You’ll Impact
This isn’t a job about checking boxes. It’s about safeguarding performance, elevating usability, and ensuring reliability at scale. Your reports won’t collect dust—they’ll influence dev priorities, protect our reputation, and drive better decisions for thousands of users worldwide. The issues you flag could prevent support tickets, product delays, or worse, frustrated customers. Your contribution doesn’t end at bug reports; it begins there.
Key Responsibilities
Ensure Feature Reliability
- Design and execute functional, regression, and exploratory tests that simulate real-world usage scenarios.
- Break down complex features into critical test cases to verify edge cases that others miss.
Collaborate Across Disciplines
- Partner with product managers to align QA planning with roadmap priorities and product releases.
- Work directly with developers to identify failure points, replicate user issues, and validate resolutions.
- Help designers understand how their UX flows perform under edge conditions.
Own the Quality Workflow
- Maintain and refine automated testing pipelines to enable faster and more reliable release cycles.
- Create actionable QA documentation that guides both engineers and future testers.
- Perform end-to-end testing across web, mobile, and API environments to ensure cross-platform reliability.
Elevate User Trust
- Monitor defect trends and proactively recommend process changes before issues become patterns.
- Advocate for user-centric QA thinking during backlog refinement and sprint planning.
Tools and Technology Stack
You’ll have the autonomy to choose tools that support deep, focused QA work, not just busy work. Right now, we rely on:
- Jira & Confluence for test management and documentation
- Postman for validating APIs and testing backend logic
- Selenium and Cypress for browser automation
- BrowserStack for cross-browser and mobile testing
- Slack, Notion, and Zoom for async remote collaboration
If you've worked with tools like TestRail, Playwright, or REST Assured, even better—we value curiosity and initiative over tool familiarity.
Your Mindset
You’re wired to explore before assuming. You view failed test cases not as problems, but as learning opportunities. And when reporting an issue, you don’t just describe the bug—you explain its context, steps to reproduce, affected systems, and user impact. That mindset helps teams ship faster and smarter, without sacrificing user trust.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Haves
- Strong understanding of testing best practices in agile workflows
- Experience testing SaaS products across web and mobile platforms
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration pipelines
- Solid command of exploratory testing techniques and edge case identification
- Ability to distill complex test findings into clear, actionable feedback
- Fluent in remote work communication: you simplify complex ideas—whether it's over Zoom or Slack
Bonus Points
- Background in performance testing or load testing
- Experience with accessibility testing standards (WCAG 2.1)
- Past experience in remote-first or distributed teams
- Familiarity with GitHub workflows and Dockerized environments
Work Environment
You’ll thrive in a high-autonomy environment where your judgment is trusted, your ideas are heard, and your focus time is protected. Our remote collaboration stack is built around async-first principles, so you can do your best thinking without being trapped in meetings. We move quickly, but you’ll always have space to focus intensely.
You’ll join a tight-knit team of engineers, designers, and product thinkers committed to launching meaningful features, not just chasing velocity. Your work will be celebrated, not overlooked.
Career Growth
This isn’t a career cul-de-sac. Many of our QA specialists have expanded into product, engineering, or leadership roles. We support cross-training, experimentation, and professional development. Whether you’re a rising QA star or someone transitioning from support, dev, or IT roles, you’ll find mentorship and room to grow.
Compensation
This full-time, remote opportunity comes with a base annual salary of $70,000, along with performance-based bonuses, health benefits, and generous PTO. You’ll also receive a home office stipend to set up your ideal remote workspace.
Let’s Build Something That Lasts
You care about shipping things that work. We care about building trust through quality. If that sounds like a match, let’s build something purposeful together—apply today.