Role overview

QA Engineer (Manual)

Requirements and responsibilities

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Your Tasks Will Be

  • Performing manual testing of REST APIs
  • Testing data collection and parsing from publicly available sources (Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, websites, and other online platforms)
  • Verifying data quality, completeness, consistency, and correctness after parsing and processing
  • Verifying stability of parsing results, performing load testing of parsing services
  • Preparing Python scripts for load testing
  • Validating search functionality, filtering, data aggregation
  • Investigating issues using application logs, Kibana logs, API responses and Zabbix triggers
  • Collaborating closely with developers, analysts, product owners, technical support and other development teams throughout the development lifecycle, proactively participating in product meetings
  • Assisting the Technical Support team with incident handling

What We're Looking For

  • Experience in Manual QA
  • Strong understanding of software testing principles and test design techniques
  • Active involvement in the software development process at the planning and feature design stage
  • Experience testing REST APIs using Postman, Insomnia, or similar tools
  • Understanding of HTTP, JSON, request/response lifecycle, authentication, and status codes
  • Ability to analyze API responses, application logs, Kibana logs
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working in Scrum teams
  • English: B1+ level
  • Russian: B2+ level

Nice to haves

  • Experience testing OSINT, data collection, web scraping, or social media monitoring platforms
  • Familiarity with Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and other public information sources
  • Basic understanding of Python
  • Experience with container management platforms such as Rancher, Kubernetes
  • Experience with test automation of parsing systems and maintaining parsing data examples

What We Offer

  • Remote-first setup: work from anywhere in the world (excluding Russia and Belarus)
  • Real ownership from day one: your work directly affects product reliability for law enforcement and enterprise customers in 80+ countries
  • A collaborative team with a startup spirit and a clear path to grow
  • Work on a technically challenging, fast-growing product at the intersection of OSINT, AI, and cyber intelligence
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FocusQA EngineerRole area
Seniority signalMiddleCandidate level
StackKubernetes, Python, RESTPrimary skills
Location1 accepted countryEligibility

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