Senior QA Engineer (Web)

Worldwide Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a group of social discovery companies. SDG solves the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG’s products redefine the way people interact and connect with one another. Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures and regions of the world. We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals who specialize in creating and developing globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of digital nomads works remotely from all over the world. We’re proud to be a two-time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025). We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer (Web) - split roughly 50/50 between manual and automation work. Your main tasks will be:

• Drive the quality assurance of business features from technical hand-off to successful production release.
• Review specifications, prepare test plans, and create comprehensive test cases and checklists before the stabilization phase begins.
• Provide realistic estimates for testing tasks and reliably meet your committed deadlines.
• Conduct functional, exploratory, regression, UI/UX, cross-browser, and E2E API testing across modern web browsers and responsive viewports.
• Write and maintain automated tests (Playwright, JavaScript/TypeScript) within our existing automation project — split roughly 50/50 between manual and automation work.
• Conduct thorough test documentation and peer reviews, including test code reviews, and successfully pass reviews of your own work.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Front-End, Back-End engineers, and Architects throughout the development cycle.
• Support web production releases by validating builds, conducting smoke/regression checks, and monitoring live errors and performance.
• Track and improve key QA metrics, including escaped defect rate and test coverage.

We expect from you:

• Solid grounding in QA methodology, test design, and the overall testing process
• Good understanding of web tech and client-server architecture — HTTP/HTTPS, REST, DOM, cookies, cache, local storage
• Cross-browser and responsive testing experience (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, mobile viewports)
• Comfortable with DevTools and debugging proxies (Proxyman, Charles, Fiddler or similar)
• API testing experience — Postman, REST/GraphQL, working with test data
• Hands-on with Jira, Allure TestOps (or similar), and Git
• Hands-on automation experience with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript — you write and maintain automated tests yourself, not just review or run them
• Ideally some experience on a product with similar mechanics — feeds, chats, subscriptions (dating, streaming, media platforms)
• Autonomous and self-organized — able to prioritize and figure things out without close supervision
• Clear communicator, detail-oriented, good at problem-solving and time management
• Fluent Russian and good English — both required