Senior Manual Test Engineer
Side
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇹 Portugal
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Senior
Tech Stack
SDLC
About the role
- Perform manual functional testing across new features and existing functionality
- Design, write, review, and maintain clear and comprehensive test cases
- Execute regression testing to ensure system stability after updates and releases
- Conduct UI/UX testing, ensuring usability, consistency, and user experience standards are met
- Validate integrations and workflows involving APIs, API keys, and related development tools
- Test applications that interact with or leverage LLMs, demonstrating an understanding of how these systems work and respond
- Identify, document, and track defects with high-quality bug reports
- Review, validate, and manage bug creation and test outputs from offshore QA teams
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and QA stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases
- Act as a senior QA presence, providing guidance through best practices rather than direct supervision
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in manual software testing with a strong focus on quality assurance best practices
- Proven experience working as a QA professional on production software (not crowd testing or ad-hoc testing)
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC) and testing methodologies
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in a senior testing role
- Solid technical knowledge, including a theoretical understanding of at least one programming language (no hands-on coding required)
- Experience testing APIs, understanding API keys, authentication methods, and common development tools
- Familiarity with LLMs and AI-driven systems, including how they function, respond, and are validated from a QA perspective
- Experience writing clear, detailed, and maintainable test cases
- Strong defect management skills, including writing high-quality bug reports and tracking issues to resolution
- Experience collaborating with offshore QA teams, including reviewing and handling externally reported defects
- Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Attractive compensation package, negotiable as per the level of experience.
- You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest game clients, titles, projects, and tech in the world.
- Attractive remuneration, holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes; and inclusion into an extensive social calendar. Our environments thrive with collaborative teamwork with people from all around the world, different nationalities, and languages.
- A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing program. We empower our people and offer regular progression opportunities to ensure our employees flourish.
- Learn as you work and be part of something real that changes the face of gaming - forever.
- Working with a global multi-lingual workforce with superb training and promotion and progression opportunities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
manual software testingfunctional testingregression testingUI/UX testingAPI testingtest case designdefect managementbug reportingsoftware development lifecycle (SDLC)testing methodologies
Soft skills
attention to detailanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingwritten communicationverbal communicationcollaborationindependenceguidancequality assurance best practices