SUMMARY:
We are looking for a QA Engineer to join a collaborative, cross-functional engineering team delivering high-quality, scalable systems.
In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring quality across the full software development lifecycle, with a strong focus on exploratory testing, system-level validation, and non-functional aspects such as performance and reliability.
You will work closely with engineers and product teams to embed a quality-first mindset, improve testing practices, and help evolve QA standards.
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING:
- Lead exploratory and end-to-end testing across complex systems and user workflows
- Ensure acceptance criteria are clear, complete, and testable
- Identify risks and define robust testing strategies, including non-functional testing (performance, scalability, reliability)
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to align on quality goals
- Participate in planning, design sessions, and three amigos meetings
- Analyse quality metrics and use insights to improve QA processes
- Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements
- Contribute to test coverage across manual and automated testing
- Support testing of APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-based environments
- Help evolve QA standards, tools, and best practices across the team
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- Minimum 4 years of QA experience in diverse software development projects
- Manual testing expertise across Web and Mobile.
- Proven experience in Software Quality Assurance, with a focus on exploratory and system-level testing
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Experience testing APIs and complex or distributed systems
- Exposure to cloud environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams
- An analytical mindset with the ability to use data and metrics to drive decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal
AWESOME BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Experience with test automation frameworks and practices
- Knowledge of performance testing and monitoring tools
- Exposure to AI / ML systems testing
- Familiarity with data quality or data validation tools
- Awareness of security and compliance testing
- Experience working in cloud-native environments
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues and help create our company culture
- A culture in which we don’t criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
- An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
- The possibility to grow and experience different projects
- Ongoing Training & Mentoring
- The possibility of travel
- ATTENTION! THIS POSITION IS FOR PORTUGAL OR BRAZIL BASED ONLY